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Indoor Tracking to Understand Physical Activity and Sedentary Behaviour: Exploratory Study in UK Office Buildings

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  • Richard Spinney
  • Lee Smith
  • Marcella Ucci
  • Abigail Fisher
  • Marina Konstantatou
  • Alexia Sawyer
  • Jane Wardle
  • Alexi Marmot

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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.

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  • Richard Spinney & Lee Smith & Marcella Ucci & Abigail Fisher & Marina Konstantatou & Alexia Sawyer & Jane Wardle & Alexi Marmot, 2015. "Indoor Tracking to Understand Physical Activity and Sedentary Behaviour: Exploratory Study in UK Office Buildings," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 10(5), pages 1-19, May.
    • Handle: RePEc:plo:pone00:0127688
    DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0127688
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