Dissertation Proposal: Apple Watch and Healthcare Research

This dissertation proposal explores the innovation in wearable devices, specifically focusing on the Apple Watch and its impact on medical research. The study aims to analyze the importance of the Apple Watch in healthcare, examining the development trends of wearable devices, identifying opportunities and challenges within the healthcare industry, and conducting a comparative analysis of the Apple Watch and Mi Band models. The research will utilize both primary and secondary data collection methods, including surveys with Apple Watch and Xiaomi Band users, and interviews with company managers. The findings will be analyzed using quantitative and qualitative methods, ensuring adherence to ethical guidelines and data protection regulations. The proposal also discusses the relevant subject areas, which include the business model innovation of the Apple Watch, its software platform, hardware features, branding, and interface design, using various theories and models to understand user behavior in healthcare applications.

DISSERTATION PROPOSAL FORM
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Provisional Title of Your Dissertation.
Innovation in wearable devices such as Apple Watch
Describe the topic(s) or issue(s) you wish to investigate for your Dissertation.
These must relate to the subjects that comprise your programme of study, and must
clearly indicate what your aims /objectives / research questions will be.
The rapid speed of digital development and technology in medical research at a high
degree. The electronic health industry has been a beginning of an era of digital health.
This concept has been reached too many smart phone applications related to health
(Kirk, 2016). However, Internet of Things has a major impact in the health industry for
making transformation into digital innovation. IoT devices have been capitalizing e-
healthcare market (Lafreniere et al., 2017). Various companies including Apple has been
focusing in preparing new IoT devices for healthcare. The Apple Watch has been a new
innovative device invented by Apple Inc. This research focuses on how Apple Watch
have been benefiting medical research industry.
The aim of the research to analyze importance of the Apple Watch in the medical
research study.
Following are the objectives of the research:
 To analyze the wearable devices development trend
 To identify opportunities and challenges of IoT wearable devices in health care
industry
 To physically testing the Apple Watch and Mi brand model compare and analysis
The research questions has been mentioned below:
 What is the trend in development of wearable deices in healthcare industry?
 What are opportunities and challenges of IoT wearable devices in health care
industry?
 How to physically compare Apple Watch and Mi Brand Model devices?
What facts or information will you need to gather? How will you access these?
Data will be collected in two ways including primary and secondary method. Primary
data will collected from conducting survey with users of Apple Watch and Xiaomi Brand
devices users. Secondary will be collected from online journals, books, articles and
interview. The sample size for the survey will be 100 users of both Apple and Xiaomi
Brand users (Blythe et al., 2017). There will be 10 closed ended questions added in the
survey questionnaires form created by using Google Forms. Answers and Views of
participants will be recorded as data and information for the study. The results and
outcomes will be analysed using tables, charts and graphs using Likert Scale ranging
from 1 to 5. Interview will be conducted with three managers of the companies and five
open ended questions will be asked to them. Both quantitative and qualitative analysis
will be done that might help in analyzing and comparing data from Apple and Xiaomi
brand devices.
The research will follow proper ethics and values related to the research. Data and
information will be kept safe and secure with the help of Data Protection Act 1998. No

participants will be forced to involve in the research study and free to leave the research
at any time. The legal norms will be followed in the research. A legal agreement will be
signed with the companies for taking their data and information in the research.
To which subject area(s) is this proposal - in your view - most strongly
related?
The research will be related to the innovation in the wearable devices linked to
smartphones and devices (Zetterholm, Brandt & Jokela, 2016). The research will be
related to business model including software platform, hardware feature, branding and
design of interface of Apple Inc. Various theories and models will be used in the
literature review related to the user behavior with the use of Apple Watch for health care
purpose.
References
Blythe, A., Scott, E., LaMunion, M. S., & Samuel, R. (2017). Validity of Consumer-Based
Physical Activity Monitors for Estimating Energy Expenditure in Youth.
Kirk, S. E. (2016). Comparison of the Apple Watch, Fitbit Surge, and Actigraph GT9X Link in
Measuring Energy Expenditure, Steps, Distance, and Heart Rate (Doctoral
dissertation, Cleveland State University).
Lafreniere, B., Gutwin, C., Cockburn, A., & Grossman, T. (2016, May). Faster command
selection on touchscreen watches. In Proceedings of the 2016 CHI Conference on
Human Factors in Computing Systems (pp. 4663-4674). ACM.
Zetterholm, M., Brandt, P., & Jokela, P. (2016). Physio-digital Convergence: Aspects on
Security. In ISTI-2016, The seventh International Conference, entitled “Information
Systems and Technology Innovations: the New Paradigm for a Smarter Economy”,
Tirana, June 17-18, 2016. University of Tirana.
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