I am interested in using a physical activity tracker across a large population of children (aged 8-14), which would not only allow children to track their own activity and for researchers to implement behavior change techniques (goal setting etc), but also for researchers to collect the real-time data as well.
Does such technology exist or are current trackers reliant upon the participant to upload data to an app and then researchers access the data from a central point/hub?
Any guidance would be great
Hello Daniel,
In fact you can use different kind of accelerometers. There are some of them that you could track in real-time with wifi and GPS. Besides, You could find some articles where they were validated with children.
I was working with them.
Just have a look for them in internet (I don't want to do publicity suggesting you any of them).
It would be a pleasure to answer to your questions if you need it.
Best regards,
Activity and workout apps have been developed for phones and watches. They would need some modification to be used for real time monitoring.
I would suggest some accelerometers. Maybe they are not ideal but quite good objective method.
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