Title :
Design of a wearable physical activity monitoring system using mobile phones and accelerometers
Author :
Intille, Stephen S. ; Albinali, Fahd ; Mota, Selene ; Kuris, Benjamin ; Botana, Pilar ; Haskell, William L.
Author_Institution :
Coll. of Comput. & Inf. Sci., Northeastern Univ., Boston, MA, USA
fDate :
Aug. 30 2011-Sept. 3 2011
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.
Keywords :
accelerometers; biomedical equipment; biomedical measurement; medical computing; mobile handsets; patient monitoring; public domain software; sensors; sleep; Wockets data collection system; accelerometer; comfortable sensors; longitudinal measurement; mobile phone; monitor data collection; open-source hardware system; open-source software system; physical activity; raw motion data; sedentary behavior; sleep; wearable physical activity monitoring system; Accelerometers; Batteries; Biomedical monitoring; Bluetooth; Mobile handsets; Monitoring; Sensors; Acceleration; Cellular Phone; Environmental Monitoring; Humans; Motor Activity;
Conference_Titel :
Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBC, 2011 Annual International Conference of the IEEE
Conference_Location :
Boston, MA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-4121-1
Electronic_ISBN :
1557-170X
DOI :
10.1109/IEMBS.2011.6090611
