Indoor Tracking to Understand Physical Activity and Sedentary
Behaviour: Exploratory Study in UK Office Buildings |
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| Authors: | Richard Spinney Lee Smith Marcella Ucci Abigail Fisher Marina Konstantatou Alexia Sawyer Jane Wardle Alexi Marmot |
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| Affiliation: | 1UCL Institute of Environmental Design and Engineering, Bartlett Facultyof the Built Environment, UCL, Central House, 14 Upper Woburn Place, London,WC1H 0NN, United Kingdom;2Health Behavior Research Centre, Department of Epidemiology and PublicHealth, UCL, 1–19 Torrington Place, London, WC1E 7HB, UnitedKingdom;Columbia University, UNITED STATES |
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| Abstract: | Little is known of the patterns of physical activity, standing and sitting byoffice workers. However, insight into these behaviours is of growing interest,notably in regard to public health priorities to reduce non-communicable diseaserisk factors associated with high levels of sitting time and low levels ofphysical activity. With the advent and increasing availability of indoortracking systems it is now becoming possible to build detailed pictures of theusage of indoor spaces. This paper reports initial results of indoor trackingused in conjunction with the ActivPAL activity monitoring device. In this paperwe give an overview of the usage of the tracking system and its installation andillustrate some of the resultant data. We also provide preliminary results thatinvestigate the relationship between location, light physical activity andsitting in a small sample of office workers (n=33) from two separate officeenvironments in order to demonstrate the relevance and explanatory power of thetechnique. |
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