Multi-sensor movement analysis for transport safety and health applications

PLoS One. 2019 Jan 31;14(1):e0210090. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0210090. eCollection 2019.

Abstract

Recent increases in the use of and applications for wearable technology has opened up many new avenues of research. In this paper, we consider the use of lifelogging and GPS data to extend fine-grained movement analysis for improving applications in health and safety. We first design a framework to solve the problem of indoor and outdoor movement detection from sensor readings associated with images captured by a lifelogging wearable device. Second we propose a set of measures related with hazard on the road network derived from the combination of GPS movement data, road network data and the sensor readings from a wearable device. Third, we identify the relationship between different socio-demographic groups and the patterns of indoor physical activity and sedentary behaviour routines as well as disturbance levels on different road settings.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
  • Review

MeSH terms

  • Accidents, Traffic / prevention & control
  • Accidents, Traffic / statistics & numerical data
  • Cities / statistics & numerical data
  • Geographic Information Systems*
  • Humans
  • Movement*
  • Transportation*
  • United Kingdom
  • Wearable Electronic Devices*

Grants and funding

This work was supported by the ESRC Grants (grant number ES/L011921/1). The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.