Development of physical activity promotion application linked with GPS and accelerometer

2017 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 15K12685
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Applied health science
• Research Institution: Nihon University (2016-2017); Wayo Women's University (2015)
• Principal Investigator: NAMBA Hideyuki (難波秀行) 日本大学, 理工学部, 准教授 (80559790)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): 山田 陽介 国立研究開発法人医薬基盤・健康・栄養研究所, 国立健康・栄養研究所 栄養代謝研究部, 研究員 (60550118)
• Project Period (FY): 2015-04-01 – 2018-03-31
• Keywords: 身体活動 / GPS / 加速度計 / 行動記録

Outline of Final Research Achievements

Physical activity of Japanese people has been declining in recent decades.Using wearable devices might be increase physical activity.The primary objective was to clarify the effect of physical activity promotion through intervention using a wearable device.The second objective was to complement the measurement of physical activity by simultaneous measurement of acceleration and GPS to verify the program of promoting physical activity.In this study, effective wearing of physical activity was not recognized by using only wearable device.It is important to promote behavioral change by feedbacking using GPS, accelerometer, subjective evaluation method using behavior record method, and looking back on internal factors and external factors by SWOT analysis.

Free Research Field

応用健康科学