A practical validation study of a commercial accelerometer using good and poor sleepers

David Dickinson, Joseph Cazier and Thomas Cech

No 16-04, Working Papers from Department of Economics, Appalachian State University

Abstract: We validated the performance of Fitbit sleep tracking devices against research-grade actigraphy across four days/nights on 38 young adult good and poor sleepers. Fitbit devices underestimated changes in nightly sleep compared to standard actigraphy. Nevertheless, we estimated the Fitbit captures 88% (poor sleepers) to 98% (good sleepers) of actigraphy estimated sleep time changes, which may still be useful for qualitative sleep analysis over time. Key Words: Sleep tracking, Fitbit, validation, actigraphy

Date: 2016, Revised 2016
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