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Blur Obfuscation for Wearable Electronic Devices

N/A
Waitlist Available
Research Sponsored by Northwestern University
Eligibility Criteria Checklist
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Must have
Be between 18 and 65 years old
Timeline
Screening 3 weeks
Treatment Varies
Follow Up 7 days
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Study Summary

This trial is testing the acceptability of a wearable device, WildCam, which captures video data of the user's face and upper torso to capture eating behaviors. The device is privacy conscious, meaning it utilizes a computer vision algorithm that extracts proximal features (the user's body and objects-in-hand) from the video and digitally obfuscates the distal features (background environment and entities therein) to preserve the privacy of the wearer, as well as any bystanders who may be in the device's visual field.

Timeline

Screening ~ 3 weeks
Treatment ~ Varies
Follow Up ~7 days
This trial's timeline: 3 weeks for screening, Varies for treatment, and 7 days for reporting.

Treatment Details

Study Objectives

Outcome measures can provide a clearer picture of what you can expect from a treatment.
Primary outcome measures
Mean Wear Time
Secondary outcome measures
Acceptability

Trial Design

4Treatment groups
Experimental Treatment
Group I: Raw imagesExperimental Treatment1 Intervention
No editing is performed on images.
Group II: Edge obfuscationExperimental Treatment1 Intervention
Objects and people in the background of images are replaced with an outline of the object.
Group III: Cartoon obfuscationExperimental Treatment1 Intervention
Blurring is applied to objects and people in the background of images and the wearer's face is concealed with cartoon faces.
Group IV: Blur obfuscationExperimental Treatment1 Intervention
Blurring is applied to objects and people in the background of images.
Treatment
First Studied
Drug Approval Stage
How many patients have taken this drug
Blur Obfuscation
2022
N/A
~30
Edge Obfuscation
2022
N/A
~30
Cartoon Obfuscation
2022
N/A
~30
Raw images
2022
N/A
~30

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Who is running the clinical trial?

Northwestern UniversityLead Sponsor
1,585 Previous Clinical Trials
917,201 Total Patients Enrolled
National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK)NIH
2,356 Previous Clinical Trials
4,315,036 Total Patients Enrolled

Frequently Asked Questions

These questions and answers are submitted by anonymous patients, and have not been verified by our internal team.

What criteria must be fulfilled by individuals to qualify for participation in the trial?

"To be eligible for this research initiative, potential participants must possess the designated electronic device and fall between 18-64 years of age. A maximum of 30 individuals will be admitted into the trial."

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Is geriatric participation permissible in this medical experiment?

"In order to qualify for this trial, participants must be aged between 18 and 64 years old."

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What is the capacity for recruitment of participants to this medical trial?

"Indeed, the data on clinicaltrials.gov suggests that this medical research is recruiting participants. It was initially uploaded to the website on September 1st 2022 and updated most recently on the 16th of September in the same year. The trial requires 30 volunteers from a single site for its completion."

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Are there opportunities for enrollment in this clinical trial presently?

"Per the listings on clinicaltrials.gov, this research is looking for participants, having been initial posted in early September of 2022 and last modified late that same month."

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Who else is applying?

What state do they live in?
Illinois
How old are they?
18 - 65
What site did they apply to?
Northwestern University Department of Preventive Medicine
What portion of applicants met pre-screening criteria?
Met criteria
Recent research and studies
clinicaltrials.govStudy
WildCam: A Privacy Conscious Wearable Eating Detection Camera People Will Actually Wear in the Wild
Nabil Alshurafa 2022. "WildCam: A Privacy Conscious Wearable Eating Detection Camera People Will Actually Wear in the Wild". ClinicalTrials.gov. https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT05547425.
~12 spots leftby Apr 2025
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