Recording human activity is known as actigraphy and is important to the study of sleep disorders, exercising, atheletic performance, geriatrics, and other sciences related to human movement. An actigraph, or actimetry sensor, measures the movements made by the patient. The simplest actigraph is a pedometer, which counts the gross cyclic movement of the body. However, a pedometer doesn’t record when a movement occured, to what extent the movement was made, or the direction of the movement.

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I have one of these devices and have just begun exploring its potential. I got it for a work application, but am thinking of all sorts of other applications. Quite sophisticated technology for a relatively low price.

morrie said:

Recording human activity is known as actigraphy and is important to the study of sleep disorders, exercising, atheletic performance, geriatrics, and other sciences related to human movement. An actigraph, or actimetry sensor, measures the movements made by the patient. The simplest actigraph is a pedometer, which counts the gross cyclic movement of the body. However, a pedometer doesn’t record when a movement occured, to what extent the movement was made, or the direction of the movement.

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I have one of these devices and have just begun exploring its potential. I got it for a work application, but am thinking of all sorts of other applications. Quite sophisticated technology for a relatively low price.

weight loss?

wookiemeister said:

morrie said:

Recording human activity is known as actigraphy and is important to the study of sleep disorders, exercising, atheletic performance, geriatrics, and other sciences related to human movement. An actigraph, or actimetry sensor, measures the movements made by the patient. The simplest actigraph is a pedometer, which counts the gross cyclic movement of the body. However, a pedometer doesn’t record when a movement occured, to what extent the movement was made, or the direction of the movement.

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I have one of these devices and have just begun exploring its potential. I got it for a work application, but am thinking of all sorts of other applications. Quite sophisticated technology for a relatively low price.

weight loss?

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I suppose you could use it to measure activity as an aid to weight loss. Not what I am thinking of though.

morrie said:

wookiemeister said:

morrie said:

Recording human activity is known as actigraphy and is important to the study of sleep disorders, exercising, atheletic performance, geriatrics, and other sciences related to human movement. An actigraph, or actimetry sensor, measures the movements made by the patient. The simplest actigraph is a pedometer, which counts the gross cyclic movement of the body. However, a pedometer doesn’t record when a movement occured, to what extent the movement was made, or the direction of the movement.

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I have one of these devices and have just begun exploring its potential. I got it for a work application, but am thinking of all sorts of other applications. Quite sophisticated technology for a relatively low price.

weight loss?

?
I suppose you could use it to measure activity as an aid to weight loss. Not what I am thinking of though.

maybe you could somehow link human movement to heart disease?

So I take it you got your accelerometer to work then, morrie.

you could hook it up to a dog and see exactly what activity goes on whilst you aren’t there

wookiemeister said:

morrie said:

wookiemeister said:

weight loss?

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I suppose you could use it to measure activity as an aid to weight loss. Not what I am thinking of though.

maybe you could somehow link human movement to heart disease?

Quite possibly. I imagine you would need a large database though. And the first results would prove promising but inadequate. So a larger study would be needed to show that it was questionable, then a really large study would show that it was statistically insignificant.

sibeen said:

So I take it you got your accelerometer to work then, morrie.

:-) Yep, I charged the battery!

Interesting.

It would need to be feeding the data to a smartphone or something to be useful during an exercise session, but it could certainly be useful for monitoring training (say, for a footy team) adherence and effectiveness after a session.

Be warned, however, that most trainers don’t like their trainees being monitored too closely – Nor does anyone who’s work is time wasting and ineffectual.

;-)