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This dataset supports the study "A method for intelligent allocation of diagnostic testing by leveraging data from commercial wearable devices: a case study on COVID-19" which developed an Intelligent Testing Allocation (ITA) method. The study demonstrated the efficacy of using continuous digital biomarkers like resting heart rate and steps to enhance COVID-19 diagnostic testing positivity rates. The findings suggest significant potential for large-scale, symptom-independent surveillance testing to alleviate diagnostic test shortages. The provided data is from the CovIdentify study launched by Duke's BIG IDEAs Lab in the Biomedical Engineering Department. From April 2nd, 2020 to May 25th, 2021, 2,887 participants connected their smartwatches to the CovIdentify platform, including 1,689 Garmin, 1,091 Fitbit, and 107 Apple smartwatches 

Meditation, a mental and physical exercise which helps to focus attention and reduce stress has gained more popularity in recent years. However, meditation requires a concerted effort and regular practice. To explore the feasibility of using Augmented Reality (AR) Devices to assist in meditating, we recruited ten subjects to perform a five-minute meditation task integrated into AR devices. Heart Rate, Heart Rate Variability, and skin conductance response (SCR) are analyzed based on an Electrocardiogram (ECG), Electrodermal activity to monitor the physiological changes during and after a meditation session. Additionally, participants filled out surveys containing the Perceived Stress Questionnaire (PSQ), a clinically validated survey designed to evaluate stress levels before and after meditation to analyze the change in stress levels. Finally, we found significant differences in Heart Rate and Mean SCR Recovery Time for participants between the three study procedure periods (before, during, and after guided meditation). 

Robust pervasive context-aware augmented reality (AR) has the potential to enable a range of applications that support users in reaching their personal and professional goals. In such applications, AR can be used to deliver richer, more immersive, and more timely just in time adaptive interventions (JITAI) than conventional mo-bile solutions, leading to more effective support of the user. This position paper defines a research agenda centered on improving AR applications' environmental, user, and social context awareness. Specifically, we argue for two key architectural approaches that will allow pushing AR context awareness to the next level: use of wearable and Internet of Things (IoT) devices as additional data streams that complement the data captured by the AR devices, and the development of edge computing-based mechanisms for enriching existing scene understanding and simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) algorithms. The paper outlines a collection of specific research directions in the development of such architectures and in the design of next-generation environmental, user, and social context awareness algorithms.