Mobile and Wearable Device Features that Matter in Promoting Physical Activity

Matter in Promoting Physical Activity

Julie B. Wang, PhD, MPH, Janine K. Cataldo, RN, PhD, Guadalupe X. Ayala, PhD, MPH, Loki Natarajan, PhD, Lisa A. Cadmus-Bertram, PhD, Martha M. White, MS, Hala Madanat, PhD, Jeanne F. Nichols, PhD, FACSM, John P. Pierce, PhD Moores Cancer Center, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California, USA; Graduate School of Public Health, San Diego State University, San Diego, California, US...

Physical Activity Recognition from Accelerometer Data using a Wearable Device

Activity Recognition is an emerging field of research, born from the larger fields of ubiquitous computing, context-aware computing and multimedia. Recognizing everyday life activities will be in the short future a fundamental application in pervasive computing. In our work, we developed a wearable system easy to use and comfortable to bring. We obtain very good classification accuracy for each...

Assessing physical activity using wearable monitors: measures of physical activity.

BACKGROUND Physical activity may be defined broadly as "all bodily actions produced by the contraction of skeletal muscle that increase energy expenditure above basal level." Physical activity is a complex construct that can be classified into major categories qualitatively, quantitatively, or contextually. The quantitative assessment of physical activity using wearable monitors is grounded in ...

Unobtrusive Monitoring of Physical Activity in AAL - A Simple Wearable Device Designed for Older Adults

The Impact of Wearable Device Enabled Health Initiative on Physical Activity and Sleep

OBJECTIVES The Personal Health Management Study (PHMS) is an assessment of the effect of a voluntary employee-facing health initiative using a commercially-available wearable device implemented among 565 employees of Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals, Inc. The results of the initiative on physical activity (measured as steps) and sleep is reported. METHODS This was a 12-month, prospective,...