A Novel System for the Device-Based Measurement of Physical Activity, Sedentary Behavior, and Sleep (Motus): Usability Evaluation.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Device-based measurements of physical behavior, using the current methods, place a large burden on participants. The Motus system could reduce this burden by removing the necessity for in-person meetings, replacing diaries written on paper with digital diaries, and increasing the automation of feedback generation.

Objective

This study aims to describe the development of the Motus system and evaluate its potential to reduce participant burden in a two-phase usability evaluation.

Methods

Motus was developed around (1) a thigh-worn accelerometer with Bluetooth data transfer; (2) a smartphone app containing an attachment guide, a digital diary, and facilitating automated data transfer; (3) a cloud infrastructure for data storage; (4) an analysis software to gen

SUBMITTER: Crowley P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10692873 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature