A system for objectively measuring behavior and the environment to support large-scale studies on childhood obesity

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2501.02560v1
• Date: Sun, 05 Jan 2025 14:27:09 GMT
• Title: A system for objectively measuring behavior and the environment to support large-scale studies on childhood obesity
• Authors: Vasileios Papapanagiotou, Ioannis Sarafis, Leonidas Alagialoglou, Vasileios Gkolemis, Christos Diou, Anastasios Delopoulos,
• Abstract summary: We present an integrated system that collects and extracts multiple behavioral and environmental indicators. Our goal is to present a detailed account of the design principles, the implementation processes, and the evaluation of integrated algorithms.
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• Abstract: Advances in IoT technologies combined with new algorithms have enabled the collection and processing of high-rate multi-source data streams that quantify human behavior in a fine-grained level and can lead to deeper insights on individual behaviors as well as on the interplay between behaviors and the environment. In this paper, we present an integrated system that collects and extracts multiple behavioral and environmental indicators, aiming at improving public health policies for tackling obesity. Data collection takes place using passive methods based on smartphone and smartwatch applications that require minimal interaction with the user. Our goal is to present a detailed account of the design principles, the implementation processes, and the evaluation of integrated algorithms, especially given the challenges we faced, in particular (a) integrating multiple technologies, algorithms, and components under a single, unified system, and (b) large scale (big data) requirements. We also present evaluation results of the algorithms on datasets (public for most cases) such as an absolute error of 8-9 steps when counting steps, 0.86 F1-score for detecting visited locations, and an error of less than 12 mins for gross sleep time. Finally, we also briefly present studies that have been materialized using our system, thus demonstrating its potential value to public authorities and individual researchers.

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