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ArticleSensors (Basel, Switzerland)2018

Context Mining of Sedentary Behaviour for Promoting Self-Awareness Using a Smartphone.

Muhammad Fahim, Thar Baker, Asad Masood Khattak, Babar Shah, Saiqa Aleem, Francis Chow

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Article in Sensors (Basel, Switzerland), 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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7 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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6 authors.

Muhammad FahimInstitute of Information Systems, Innopolis University, Innopolis 420500, Russia. m.fahim@innopolis.ru.
Thar BakerDepartment of Computer Science, Faculty of Engineering and Technology, Liverpool John Moores University, Liverpool L3 3AF, UK. t.baker@ljmu.ac.uk.ORCID 0000-0002-5166-4873
Asad Masood KhattakCollege of Technological Innovation, Zayed University, Abu Dhabi Campus, Abu Dhabi 144534, UAE. asad.khattak@zu.ac.ae.
Babar ShahCollege of Technological Innovation, Zayed University, Abu Dhabi Campus, Abu Dhabi 144534, UAE. Babar.Shah@zu.ac.ae.
Saiqa AleemCollege of Technological Innovation, Zayed University, Abu Dhabi Campus, Abu Dhabi 144534, UAE. Saiqa.Aleem@zu.ac.ae.
Francis ChowUniversity College, Zayed University, Dubai 144534, UAE. Francis.Chow@zu.ac.ae.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Sedentary behaviour is increasing due to societal changes and is related to prolonged periods of sitting. There is sufficient evidence proving that sedentary behaviour has a negative impact on people's health and wellness. This paper presents our research findings on how to mine the temporal contexts of sedentary behaviour by utilizing the on-board sensors of a smartphone. We use the accelerometer sensor of the smartphone to recognize user situations (i.e., still or active). If our model confirms that the user context is still, then there is a high probability of being sedentary. Then, we process the environmental sound to recognize the micro-context, such as working on a computer or watching television during leisure time. Our goal is to reduce sedentary behaviour by suggesting preventive interventions to take short breaks during prolonged sitting to be more active. We achieve this goal by providing the visualization to the user, who wants to monitor his/her sedentary behaviour to reduce unhealthy routines for self-management purposes. The main contribution of this paper is two-fold: (i) an initial implementation of the proposed framework supporting real-time context identification; (ii) testing and evaluation of the framework, which suggest that our application is capable of substantially reducing sedentary behaviour and assisting users to be active.

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SmartphoneComputersExerciseFemaleHumansMalePostureSedentary Behaviorcontext recognitionself-managementunhealthy sitting habits

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PMID29543763
PMCPMC5877307

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