Characterising routine physical activity in the office

Yasmin Fransisca van Kasteren; Lua Perimal-Lewis; Anthony J. Maeder

doi:10.3233/978-1-61499-914-0-116

Characterising routine physical activity in the office

Yasmin Fransisca van Kasteren, Lua Perimal-Lewis, Anthony J. Maeder

College of Nursing and Health Sciences

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Abstract

Workplace health is of concern to management and employees alike. Managers are concerned about the impact of health and wellbeing on productivity, while employees are concerned about impacts on quality of life. In the past two decades, there has been growing concern about the impact of sedentary behaviour at work. Before any interventions can be made to encourage physical activity at work proactively, it is desirable to understand the baseline characteristics of office based physical activity at work. Consumer wearable technology has provided a new and convenient mechanism for using personal monitoring to achieve remote observation of lifestyle related health behaviours. This paper describes how this technology can potentially be used to characterize different levels of workplace physical activity.

Original language	English
Pages	116-123
Number of pages	8
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3233/978-1-61499-914-0-116
Publication status	Published - 1 Jan 2018
Event	7th International Conference on Global Telehealth, GT 2018 - Cinnamon Grand, Colombo, Sri Lanka Duration: 10 Oct 2018 → 11 Oct 2018 http://dhw2018.org/globaltelehealth/ (GT 2018 7th International Conference on Global Telehealth)

Conference

Conference	7th International Conference on Global Telehealth, GT 2018
Abbreviated title	GT2018
Country/Territory	Sri Lanka
City	Colombo
Period	10/10/18 → 11/10/18
Internet address	http://dhw2018.org/globaltelehealth/ (GT 2018 7th International Conference on Global Telehealth)

Keywords

Consumer wearable technology
Health behaviour
Personal monitoring
Physical activity
Workplace health and safety

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