This paper describes a wearable annotation overlay system using augmented reality (AR) techniques. To realize AR systems, the position and orientation of user’s viewpoint should be obtained in real time. The proposed system measures the orientation of user’s viewpoint by an inertial sensor and the user’s position using positioning infrastructures in environments and a pedometer. The system spec...

Tracking refers to the tendency for individuals to maintain their rank in a group over time. The authors explored tracking of pedometer-determined physical activity. In October of 2000, 2003, and 2005, data of physical activity as steps per day were collected with sealed Yamax SW-200 pedometers (Tokyo, Japan) for 4 consecutive schooldays in 97 (46 boys and 51 girls) Swedish adolescents (mean ag...

This paper describes the design of an advanced smartphone pedometer developed as part of a larger solution aimed at encouraging a healthier lifestyle through regular physical activity, called Move2Play. Move2Play provides several motivational methods to promote exercise, some of which are based on the use of points derived from tracked activity. While current pedometers are easily tricked into ...

This study assessed and compared the daily step counts recorded by two different motion sensors in order to estimate the free-living physical activity of 135 adolescent girls. Each girl concurrently wore a Yamax pedometer and an ActiGraph accelerometer (criterion measure) every day for seven consecutive days. The convergent validity of the pedometer can be considered intermediate when used to m...

The purpose of the study was to examine the accuracy of pedometer steps and activity time (Walk4Life, WL) for youth with developmental disabilities. Eighteen youth (11 girls, 7 boys) 4-14 years completed six 80-meter self-paced walking trials while wearing a pedometer at five waist locations (front right, front left, back right, back left, middle back). Trials were video taped to determine actu...

Diabetes has emerged as a major healthcare problem in India as well as in world. Rapid urbanization marked with increasing levels of obesity and sedentary lifestyles are major causes of DM. The awareness regarding physical inactivity and sedentarism in the aetiology of diabetes is lacking. Also, the focus on physical activity for control of diabetes and its complications is lacking in India. Th...

Individuals with severe mental illness (SMI) experience excessive co-morbidities and early mortality. Self-management programs have the potential to increase physical activity levels of individuals with SMI and reduce the incidence of co-morbidities. The purpose of this quality improvement project was to assess a chronic disease self-management program (CDSMP) to increase physical activity of a...

The purpose of this pilot study was to determine the effects of the addition of coping skills training for obese multiethnic parents whose overweight children were attending a weight management program. At 6 months, parents in the experimental group had significantly lower body mass index (BMI) and body fat percentage (BFP) and higher numbers of pedometer steps compared with those in the contro...

BACKGROUND Physical activity after cancer diagnosis improves quality of life and may lengthen survival. However, objective data in cancer survivors are limited and no physical activity tracker has been validated for use in this population. OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to validate the Fitbit One's measures of physical activity over 7 days in free-living men with localized prostate cance...