title: Design of a wearable physical activity monitoring system using mobile phones and accelerometers.
abstract: This paper describes the motivation for, and overarching design of, an open-source hardware and software system to enable population-scale, longitudinal measurement of physical activity and sedentary behavior using common mobile phones. The "Wockets" data collection system permits researchers to collect raw motion data from participants who wear multiple small, comfortable sensors for 24 hours per day, including during sleep, and monitor data collection remotely.
authors.affiliation: College of Computer and Information Science and the Bouvé College of Health Sciences, Northeastern University, Boston, MA 02115, USA. s.intille@ neu.edu
authors.forename: Stephen S
authors.initials: SS
authors.lastname: Intille
authors.forename: Fahd
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Albinali
authors.forename: Selene
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Mota
authors.forename: Benjamin
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Kuris
authors.forename: Pilar
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Botana
authors.forename: William L
authors.initials: WL
authors.lastname: Haskell
mesh_terms: D000054:Acceleration; D040421:Cell Phone; D004784:Environmental Monitoring / Q000295:instrumentation*; D006801:Humans; D009043:Motor Activity