Research project Method development of physical activity measurement

This is performed by developing the processing of raw accelerometer data to reliable measures of physical activity, as well exploring new statistical methods to investigate associations between patterns of physical activity and cardiometabolic health. The goal is to develop new objective physical activity recommendation considering individual characteristics such as sex, age and fitness-level, i.e. more precise recommendations This research project uses different datasets in order to target the aim and goal from laboratory experiments, field studies with doubly labeled water as reference for physical activity and from various large population cohorts such as SCAPIS, iFAMILY and Bunkeflo. The research project is performed in collaboration researchers at the Swedish School of Sport and Health Sciences (GIH), Uppsala University (UU), Umeå University (UMU) and Lund University (LU), as well as with Elten safety shoes.