Separating Movement and Gravity Components in an Acceleration Signal and Implications for the Assessment of Human Daily Physical Activity

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2013, Pages

  van Hees, Vincent T ^a,b   Gorzelniak, Lukas ^c   Dean León, Emmanuel Carlos ^d   Eder, Martin ^d   Pias, Marcelo ^e   Taherian, Salman ^e   Ekelund, Ulf ^a,f   Renström, Frida ^g,h   Franks, Paul W ^g,h   Horsch, Alexander ^c   Brage, Søren ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF METABOLIC SCIENCE   (United Kingdom)

^b NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^d TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^f NORWEGIAN SCHOOL OF SPORT SCIENCES   (Norway)

^g UMEÅ UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^h LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATION; ACCELEROMETER; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; ENERGY EXPENDITURE; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; GRAVITY; HIP; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; KINEMATICS; MALE; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); NORMAL HUMAN; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; RANGE OF MOTION; ROBOTICS; WRIST; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; BIOMECHANICS; ENERGY METABOLISM; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR ACTIVITY; PHYSIOLOGY;

EUCLIDIA;

ACCELERATION; ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; ADULT; AGED; BIOMECHANICAL PHENOMENA; ENERGY METABOLISM; FEMALE; GRAVITATION; HIP; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MOVEMENT; ROBOTICS; WRIST;

EID: 84876514686     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0061691     Document Type: Article

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