Can accelerometry be used to discriminate levels of activity?

Ergonomics

Volumn 52, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 1019-1025

  Hendrick, P ^a   Bell, M L ^a   Bagge, P J ^b   Milosavljevic, S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^b UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Activity measurement; Physical activity; Short term free living; Tri axial accelerometry

Indexed keywords

ACCELEROMETRY; ACTIVITY LEVELS; ACTIVITY MEASUREMENT; HIGH SENSITIVITY; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; SHORT-TERM FREE LIVING; TRI-AXIAL ACCELEROMETRY; VECTOR MAGNITUDE;

BIOACTIVITY; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS;

ACCELEROMETERS;

ACCELEROMETER; ACCELEROMETRY; ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; RELIABILITY; ROC CURVE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; WORKPLACE;

ACCELERATION; ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOCOMOTION; MALE; MONITORING, AMBULATORY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 69349098769     PISSN: 00140139     EISSN: 13665847     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00140130902846464     Document Type: Article

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