One thing that Apple has spoken on stage during his last keynote besides Apple Watch, was ResearchKit. For those unaware, know that this is a new framework that, with the explicit permission of the user, can turn your smartphone into an ever active service for collecting health data.
As promised during the keynote, Apple released the ResearchKit framework, which is available not only for iOS developers, but also as an open source project on GitHub.
The framework consists of three basic building blocks that developers can use: the first named Participant Consent (consent), allows you to explain the parameters of your study, the data you collect, and what you will do. Then we polls (Surveys) that are more or less customizable surveys that you can use to ask questions on various topics. Finally, Active modules Task (active tasks) can perform certain tasks (walking, talking, etc.) while being guided by the application.
Apple provides examples for the Active Tasks, as you can see below. Developers can add their own tasks as needed.
However, there are things that the framework of ResearchKit does not provide. The first is the "Sensor data collection," or, in other words, the ability to collect continuous data from the smartphone sensors. However, the API HealthKit and CoreMotion already provide this, and since ResearchKit can extract data from the Health application, developers need only an option to collect this kind of information.
Developers must also secure the communications between their applications and servers, and comply with all applicable laws governing data collection. And ResearchKit does not trigger reminders for surveys or tasks, which means that applications will not be able to remind users to perform certain activities at regular intervals without the user to remember to do it .
Will you taste the joy of ResearchKit?
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