A single wrist or ankle accelerometer can tell you how much an infant moved. It cannot tell you, second by second, whether they were lying, sitting, crawling or standing. A systematic study shows why, and what the minimum is.
A clinic visit sees twenty minutes of a child in an unfamiliar room. MAIJU measures ordinary play at home, objectively and as often as a study needs — and the published evidence shows what that is worth.
A new Helsinki company, spun out of the BABA Center research behind the MAIJU and NAPPA infant wearables, to take published methods into everyday use in research and care.
Academic research — developmental and paediatric groups
that need a repeatable motor outcome measured at home rather than a
single scored visit.
Global health and field studies — settings without a
laboratory; the method has been used in rural Malawi with 94% of
measurements technically successful.
Envisioned (pending regulatory approval):
Clinical follow-up — services following infants with an
identified or suspected developmental risk, where the same measure is
repeated over months.
Our garments and analytics are currently intended for research use only. They do not possess official regulatory status (CE, MDR or other) issued by any legislative body. We are working hard in getting official regulatory status for our products.
19 peer-reviewed publications
have been produced with these devices — see the research.