Where to wear accelerometers to measure physical activity in people?
13 volunteers walked on a treadmill at 6 different speeds while wearing different accelerometers on different body positions, a spirometry unit and heart rate devices. The goal of this experiment was to find which position on a person's body and which of the sensors is best to measure physical activity (PA) in people by means of an accelerometer.
Institute of Medical Statistics and Epidemiology, Technische Universität München, Germany.
Kathrin
K
Thaler-Kall
Ferdinand
F
Tusker
Joachim
J
Hermsdörfer
Lukas
L
Gorzelniak
Alexander
A
Horsch
D000054:Acceleration; D056044:Actigraphy / Q000295:instrumentation* / Q000379:methods*; D000328:Adult; D004867:Equipment Design; D019544:Equipment Failure Analysis; D005260:Female; D005684:Gait / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D018670:Monitoring, Ambulatory / Q000295:instrumentation* / Q000379:methods*; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012680:Sensitivity and Specificity; D016138:Walking / Q000502:physiology*; D055815:Young Adult