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Experience with Using the Sensewear BMS Sensor System in the Context of a Health and Wellbeing Application
An assessment of a sensor designed for monitoring energy expenditure, activity, and sleep was conducted in the context of a research project which develops a weight management application. The overall goal of this project is to affect sustainable behavioural change with respect to diet and exercise...
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Hindawi Publishing Corporation
2011
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3134188/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21772840 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2011/671040 |
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author | Jones, Val Bults, Richard de Wijk, Rene Widya, Ing Batista, Ricardo Hermens, Hermie |
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description | An assessment of a sensor designed for monitoring energy expenditure, activity, and sleep was conducted in the context of a research project which develops a weight management application. The overall goal of this project is to affect sustainable behavioural change with respect to diet and exercise in order to improve health and wellbeing. This paper reports results of a pretrial in which three volunteers wore the sensor for a total of 11 days. The aim was to gain experience with the sensor and determine if it would be suitable for incorporation into the ICT system developed by the project to be trialled later on a larger population. In this paper we focus mainly on activity monitoring and user experience. Data and results including visualizations and reports are presented and discussed. User experience proved positive in most respects. Exercise levels and sleep patterns correspond to user logs relating to exercise sessions and sleep patterns. Issues raised relate to accuracy, one source of possible interference, the desirability of enhancing the system with real-time data transmission, and analysis to enable real-time feedback. It is argued that automatic activity classification is needed to properly analyse and interpret physical activity data captured by accelerometry. |
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spelling | pubmed-31341882011-07-19 Experience with Using the Sensewear BMS Sensor System in the Context of a Health and Wellbeing Application Jones, Val Bults, Richard de Wijk, Rene Widya, Ing Batista, Ricardo Hermens, Hermie Int J Telemed Appl Research Article An assessment of a sensor designed for monitoring energy expenditure, activity, and sleep was conducted in the context of a research project which develops a weight management application. The overall goal of this project is to affect sustainable behavioural change with respect to diet and exercise in order to improve health and wellbeing. This paper reports results of a pretrial in which three volunteers wore the sensor for a total of 11 days. The aim was to gain experience with the sensor and determine if it would be suitable for incorporation into the ICT system developed by the project to be trialled later on a larger population. In this paper we focus mainly on activity monitoring and user experience. Data and results including visualizations and reports are presented and discussed. User experience proved positive in most respects. Exercise levels and sleep patterns correspond to user logs relating to exercise sessions and sleep patterns. Issues raised relate to accuracy, one source of possible interference, the desirability of enhancing the system with real-time data transmission, and analysis to enable real-time feedback. It is argued that automatic activity classification is needed to properly analyse and interpret physical activity data captured by accelerometry. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2011 2011-05-10 /pmc/articles/PMC3134188/ /pubmed/21772840 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2011/671040 Text en Copyright © 2011 Val Jones et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Jones, Val Bults, Richard de Wijk, Rene Widya, Ing Batista, Ricardo Hermens, Hermie Experience with Using the Sensewear BMS Sensor System in the Context of a Health and Wellbeing Application |
title | Experience with Using the Sensewear BMS Sensor System in the Context of a Health and Wellbeing Application |
title_full | Experience with Using the Sensewear BMS Sensor System in the Context of a Health and Wellbeing Application |
title_fullStr | Experience with Using the Sensewear BMS Sensor System in the Context of a Health and Wellbeing Application |
title_full_unstemmed | Experience with Using the Sensewear BMS Sensor System in the Context of a Health and Wellbeing Application |
title_short | Experience with Using the Sensewear BMS Sensor System in the Context of a Health and Wellbeing Application |
title_sort | experience with using the sensewear bms sensor system in the context of a health and wellbeing application |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3134188/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21772840 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2011/671040 |
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