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A stepwise science-industry collaboration to optimize the calculation of energy expenditure during walking and running with a consumer-based activity device

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  • Oomen, Joost
  • Arts, Dennis
  • Sperling, Michel
  • Vos, Steven

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Physical activity (PA) and sedentary behavior (SB) have important implications for health benefits. A growing number of people use consumer available wearables such as activity trackers, which claim to objectively monitor PA and SB in free-living conditions. These devices could provide essential information to understand the influence of behavior on health. This understanding assumes that available consumer products correctly monitor PA in the everyday life. A general approach in science is to validate such activity devices in a controlled environment. The classical procedure to investigate criterion validity is to examine new devices based on the gold standard. To our knowledge, the resulting validation data are not often analyzed and shared with manufacturers to further develop and improve the activity device. The current study can be seen as a validation study to check the criterion validity of a consumer-level activity device. The novelty of this study was the application of a stepwise approach to optimize the calculations of a consumer available activity device (i.e., Activ8; www.activ8all.com/product/activ8-professional-activity-monitor/) for estimating energy expenditure (EE) in walking and running.

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  • Oomen, Joost & Arts, Dennis & Sperling, Michel & Vos, Steven, 2019. "A stepwise science-industry collaboration to optimize the calculation of energy expenditure during walking and running with a consumer-based activity device," Technology in Society, Elsevier, vol. 56(C), pages 1-7.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:teinso:v:56:y:2019:i:c:p:1-7
    DOI: 10.1016/j.techsoc.2018.09.001
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