title: Indoor Tracking to Understand Physical Activity and Sedentary Behaviour: Exploratory Study in UK Office Buildings.
abstract: Little is known of the patterns of physical activity, standing and sitting by office workers. However, insight into these behaviours is of growing interest, notably in regard to public health priorities to reduce non-communicable disease risk factors associated with high levels of sitting time and low levels of physical activity. With the advent and increasing availability of indoor tracking systems it is now becoming possible to build detailed pictures of the usage of indoor spaces. This paper reports initial results of indoor tracking used in conjunction with the ActivPAL activity monitoring device. In this paper we give an overview of the usage of the tracking system and its installation and illustrate some of the resultant data. We also provide preliminary results that investigate the relationship between location, light physical activity and sitting in a small sample of office workers (n=33) from two separate office environments in order to demonstrate the relevance and explanatory power of the technique.
authors.affiliation: UCL Institute of Environmental Design and Engineering, Bartlett Faculty of the Built Environment, UCL, Central House, 14 Upper Woburn Place, London, WC1H 0NN, United Kingdom.
authors.forename: Richard
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Spinney
authors.affiliation: Health Behavior Research Centre, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, UCL, 1-19 Torrington Place, London, WC1E 7HB, United Kingdom.
authors.forename: Lee
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Smith
authors.affiliation: UCL Institute of Environmental Design and Engineering, Bartlett Faculty of the Built Environment, UCL, Central House, 14 Upper Woburn Place, London, WC1H 0NN, United Kingdom.
authors.forename: Marcella
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Ucci
authors.affiliation: Health Behavior Research Centre, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, UCL, 1-19 Torrington Place, London, WC1E 7HB, United Kingdom.
authors.forename: Abigail
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Fisher
authors.affiliation: UCL Institute of Environmental Design and Engineering, Bartlett Faculty of the Built Environment, UCL, Central House, 14 Upper Woburn Place, London, WC1H 0NN, United Kingdom.
authors.forename: Marina
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Konstantatou
authors.affiliation: Health Behavior Research Centre, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, UCL, 1-19 Torrington Place, London, WC1E 7HB, United Kingdom.
authors.forename: Alexia
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Sawyer
authors.affiliation: Health Behavior Research Centre, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, UCL, 1-19 Torrington Place, London, WC1E 7HB, United Kingdom.
authors.forename: Jane
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Wardle
authors.affiliation: UCL Institute of Environmental Design and Engineering, Bartlett Faculty of the Built Environment, UCL, Central House, 14 Upper Woburn Place, London, WC1H 0NN, United Kingdom.
authors.forename: Alexi
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Marmot
mesh_terms: D061725:Accelerometry / Q000295:instrumentation*; D001519:Behavior; D006801:Humans; D009043:Motor Activity / Q000502:physiology*; D057185:Sedentary Behavior; D013997:Time Factors; D006113:United Kingdom; D017132:Workplace