TY - JOUR
T1 - Accelerometry Data in Health Research
T2 - Challenges and Opportunities: Review and Examples
AU - Karas, Marta
AU - Bai, Jiawei
AU - Strączkiewicz, Marcin
AU - Harezlak, Jaroslaw
AU - Glynn, Nancy W.
AU - Harris, Tamara
AU - Zipunnikov, Vadim
AU - Crainiceanu, Ciprian
AU - Urbanek, Jacek K.
N1 - Funding Information:
Funding This research was supported by Pittsburgh Claude D. Pepper Older Americans Independence Center, Research Registry, and Developmental Pilot Grant (PI: Glynn)—NIH P30 AG024826 and NIH P30 AG024827; National Institute on Aging Professional Services Contract HHSN271201100605P; NIA Aging Training Grant (PI: AB Newman) T32-AG-000181. The project was supported, in part, by the Intramural Research Program of the National Institute on Aging.
Funding Information:
The authors would like to acknowledge Annemarie Koster, Ph.D. and Paolo Caserotti, Ph.D. for designing the DECOS experiments.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2019, International Chinese Statistical Association.
PY - 2019/7/15
Y1 - 2019/7/15
N2 - Wearable accelerometers provide detailed, objective, and continuous measurements of physical activity (PA). Recent advances in technology and the decreasing cost of wearable devices led to an explosion in the popularity of wearable technology in health research. An ever-increasing number of studies collect high-throughput, sub-second level raw acceleration data. In this paper, we discuss problems related to the collection and analysis of raw accelerometry data and refer to published solutions. In particular, we describe the size and complexity of the data, the within- and between-subject variability, and the effects of sensor location on the body. We also discuss challenges related to sampling frequency, device calibration, data labeling, and multiple PA monitors synchronization. We illustrate these points using the Developmental Epidemiological Cohort Study (DECOS), which collected raw accelerometry data on individuals both in a controlled and the free-living environment.
AB - Wearable accelerometers provide detailed, objective, and continuous measurements of physical activity (PA). Recent advances in technology and the decreasing cost of wearable devices led to an explosion in the popularity of wearable technology in health research. An ever-increasing number of studies collect high-throughput, sub-second level raw acceleration data. In this paper, we discuss problems related to the collection and analysis of raw accelerometry data and refer to published solutions. In particular, we describe the size and complexity of the data, the within- and between-subject variability, and the effects of sensor location on the body. We also discuss challenges related to sampling frequency, device calibration, data labeling, and multiple PA monitors synchronization. We illustrate these points using the Developmental Epidemiological Cohort Study (DECOS), which collected raw accelerometry data on individuals both in a controlled and the free-living environment.
KW - Accelerometers
KW - Accelerometry
KW - Physical activity
KW - Wearable accelerometers
KW - Wearable computing
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U2 - 10.1007/s12561-018-9227-2
DO - 10.1007/s12561-018-9227-2
M3 - Article
C2 - 31762829
AN - SCOPUS:85060108913
SN - 1867-1764
VL - 11
SP - 210
EP - 237
JO - Statistics in Biosciences
JF - Statistics in Biosciences
IS - 2
ER -