Navigating through the r packages for movement

R Joo, ME Boone, TA Clay, SC Patrick… - Journal of Animal …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The advent of miniaturized biologging devices has provided ecologists with unprecedented
opportunities to record animal movement across scales, and led to the collection of ever …

Practical considerations in using accelerometers to assess physical activity, sedentary behavior, and sleep

M Quante, ER Kaplan, M Rueschman, M Cailler… - Sleep health, 2015 - Elsevier
Increasingly, behavioral and epidemiological research uses activity-based measurements
(accelerometry) to provide objective estimates of physical activity, sedentary behavior, and …

GGIR: a research community–driven open source R package for generating physical activity and sleep outcomes from multi-day raw accelerometer data

JH Migueles, AV Rowlands… - Journal for the …, 2019 - journals.humankinetics.com
Recent technological advances have transformed the research on physical activity initially
based on questionnaire data to the most recent objective data from accelerometers. The shift …

Wearable-device-measured physical activity and future health risk

T Strain, K Wijndaele, PC Dempsey, SJ Sharp… - Nature medicine, 2020 - nature.com
Use of wearable devices that monitor physical activity is projected to increase more than
fivefold per half-decade. We investigated how device-based physical activity energy …

Large scale population assessment of physical activity using wrist worn accelerometers: the UK biobank study

A Doherty, D Jackson, N Hammerla, T Plötz, P Olivier… - PloS one, 2017 - journals.plos.org
Background Physical activity has not been objectively measured in prospective cohorts with
sufficiently large numbers to reliably detect associations with multiple health outcomes …

Genome-wide association analyses of chronotype in 697,828 individuals provides insights into circadian rhythms

SE Jones, JM Lane, AR Wood, VT van Hees… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Being a morning person is a behavioural indicator of a person's underlying circadian rhythm.
Using genome-wide data from 697,828 UK Biobank and 23andMe participants we increase …

Estimating sleep parameters using an accelerometer without sleep diary

VT Van Hees, S Sabia, SE Jones, AR Wood… - Scientific reports, 2018 - nature.com
Wrist worn raw-data accelerometers are used increasingly in large-scale population
research. We examined whether sleep parameters can be estimated from these data in the …

A novel, open access method to assess sleep duration using a wrist-worn accelerometer

VT Van Hees, S Sabia, KN Anderson, SJ Denton… - PloS one, 2015 - journals.plos.org
Wrist-worn accelerometers are increasingly being used for the assessment of physical
activity in population studies, but little is known about their value for sleep assessment. We …

Genetic studies of accelerometer-based sleep measures yield new insights into human sleep behaviour

SE Jones, VT van Hees, DR Mazzotti… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Sleep is an essential human function but its regulation is poorly understood. Using
accelerometer data from 85,670 UK Biobank participants, we perform a genome-wide …

Genome-wide association study identifies genetic loci for self-reported habitual sleep duration supported by accelerometer-derived estimates

HS Dashti, SE Jones, AR Wood, JM Lane… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Sleep is an essential state of decreased activity and alertness but molecular factors
regulating sleep duration remain unknown. Through genome-wide association analysis in …