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Validity of pervasive computing based continuous physical activity assessment in community-dwelling old and oldest-old

Philipp Buluschek, Daniel Gatica-Perez, Bruno Pais

In older adults, physical activity is crucial for healthy aging and associated with numerous health indicators and outcomes. Regular assessments of physical activity can help detect early health-related changes and manage physical activity targeted interventions. The quantification of physical activity, however, is difficult as commonly used self-reported measures are biased and rather unprecise point in time measurements. Modern alternatives are commonly based on wearable technologies which are accurate but suffer from usability and compliance issues. In this study, we assessed the potential of an unobtrusive ambient-sensor based system for continuous, long-term physical activity quantification. Towards this goal, we analysed one year of longitudinal sensor- and medical-records stemming from thirteen community-dwelling old and oldest old subjects. Based on the sensor data the daily number of room-transitions as well as the raw sensor activity were calculated. We did find the number of room-transitions, and to some degree also the raw sensor activity, to capture numerous known associations of physical activity with cognitive, well-being and motor health indicators and outcomes. The results of this study indicate that such low-cost unobtrusive ambient-sensor systems can provide an adequate approximation of older adults' overall physical activity, sufficient to capture relevant associations with health indicators and outcomes.

2019

Open Support Platform for Environmental Research (OSPER)-tools for the discovery and exploitation of environmental data

Karl Aberer, Mathias Thierry Pierre Bavay, Alexis Berne, Juliette Ferial Blanchet, Anthony Christopher Davison, Robert Gwadera, Michael Lehning, Marc Parlange, Danny Eddy Scipion Castillo

The Open Support Platform for Environmental Research (OSPER) has been launched to take forward key data management components developed under the Swiss Experiment platform project to achieve improved usability and a wider scope. With this project, we aim to connect users to data and their context, an area identified during SwissEx as having the greatest potential impact on the research community. OSPER has a clear focus on providing the technology for data storage, management and exploitation with a special focus on data interoperability and documentation. In this presentation, we will demonstrate the key aims of OSPER for the period 2012 – 2015. Inheriting the basic SwissEx functionality, OSPER provides an excellent method of making data accessible via their metadata. One of the biggest differences between the OSPER infrastructure and other data platforms is the level of interaction that one can have with the data and the level of integration with the analysis tools used in science. We wish to capitalise on this advantage by increasing this integration and working with environmental research projects to develop the tools that make a difference to their daily research. The new data infrastructure will serve the following purposes: — Open documentation, archiving and discovery of datasets. — Facilitation of data sharing and collaboration (especially inter-disciplinary) with data owner controlled access rights, particularly concentrating on providing as much contextual information as possible. — Improvements in ease of data access and combination of data sources. — Tools for data visualisation and statistical and numerical data analysis with a focus on spatial data and trends. Key areas identified for development during OSPER are: — New infrastructure and content for current WebGIS-based data visualisation system to create a publicly available platform. — Provision of data in standard formats using standard methods as well as the consumption of such data by the processing/visualisation tools. — Provision of connected tools to provide commonly used functionality. — Cloud compatibility. — Greater integration of metadata and data. — Integration of publications using advances made in the ScienceWise project. — Advanced queries of 3- and 4-Dimensional data sources. — Documented examples of spatio-temporal statistical tools. Each of the components of the infrastructure (database middleware, WebGIS, model interfaces and processing/visualization tools) will be designed for usage both within the OSPER system and standalone. They will provide standardized interfaces, such that they can be adapted for use with data from any compatible infrastructure, and such that the data held within OSPER can be visualized or processed using any compatible tools. www.swiss-experiment.ch

American Geophysical Union (AGU)2012

Emissions of volatile organic compounds from interior materials of vehicles

Dusan Licina, Shen Yang

People spend a substantial amount of daily time in vehicle environments being exposed to variety of airborne chemicals. High concentrations of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) inside vehicle cabins have been of increasing concern owing to various health risks. Yet, there is a limited knowledge and data about VOC emissions from interior vehicular materials. In a controlled small-scale ventilated chamber, we quantified dynamic VOC emission characteristics for four commonly-used vehicular interior materials (leather coat of seats (LCS), dashboard (DB), pillar (PI) and ceiling (CE)) exposed to the two interior air temperatures (25 and 60 °C). The emission strengths of VOCs increased with temperature elevation by 3–36 times, but not linearly for every group of compounds. The level of individual VOC compounds emitted was a strong function of time, indicating the importance of a continuous sampling approach. Correlation analysis of individual VOCs revealed different emission mechanisms among the major compounds. The source apportionment results indicated that the LCS materials were associated with emissions of aromatics, carbonyls and other VOCs at 25 °C, while special attentions should be paid to the DB and the PI for their predominant contributions to extremely elevated level of aliphatic compounds at 60 °C. The results of this study are potentially useful for database of VOC emissions from vehicular materials, development of improved standard testing methods and for improved modeling of VOC emissions.

2020

Open Support Platform for Environmental Research (OSPER)-tools for the discovery and exploitation of environmental data

Karl Aberer, Mathias Thierry Pierre Bavay, Alexis Berne, Juliette Ferial Blanchet, Anthony Christopher Davison, Robert Gwadera, Michael Lehning, Marc Parlange, Danny Eddy Scipion Castillo

American Geophysical Union (AGU)2012