Accelerometer Based Body Movement Quantification in Classroom Lectures: Seated Activity Comparison Between Body Regions

Muhammad Asad Ullah Khan, Francesca Gallè, Giada Ballarin, Patrizia Calella, Giuseppe Cerullo, Giorgio Liguori, Giuliana Valerio

2023

Abstract

Sitting behavior research rarely consider non-ambulatory movement in separate body regions. This study used accelerometers, a sedentary cut off criterion, and measurement variables to evaluate movement accumulation in trunk, waist, and foot regions of students in a 42-minute classroom session. Findings show that all three sites were unique in stationary and movement measures (P≤0.012). Trunk and waist spent almost entire lesson pe-riod in stationary state (>98%) whereas foot spent larger proportion in movement (9%). In addition, longest stationary period in trunk and waist regions exceeded the 30-minute threshold of prolonged sitting by a margin of 1 to 2 minutes as opposed to the foot. Altogether, trunk and waist recorded negligible seated activity and foot recorded sporadic and frequent movement. Based on health connection of body regions movement while sitting, we believe that some movement may be better than no movement at all. Since trunk and wait were inac-tive during the lesson period, strategies could be established to encourage intermittent movement in static body regions and facilitation of movement in already active regions. However, further investigation is needed to bet-ter understand dependencies of localized body activity on students’ wellbeing in prolonged sessions of class-room lessons.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Asad Ullah Khan M., Gallè F., Ballarin G., Calella P., Cerullo G., Liguori G. and Valerio G. (2023). Accelerometer Based Body Movement Quantification in Classroom Lectures: Seated Activity Comparison Between Body Regions. In Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Sport Sciences Research and Technology Support - Volume 1: icSPORTS; ISBN 978-989-758-673-6, SciTePress, pages 144-150. DOI: 10.5220/0012184400003587

in Bibtex Style

@conference{icsports23,
author={Muhammad Asad Ullah Khan and Francesca Gallè and Giada Ballarin and Patrizia Calella and Giuseppe Cerullo and Giorgio Liguori and Giuliana Valerio},
title={Accelerometer Based Body Movement Quantification in Classroom Lectures: Seated Activity Comparison Between Body Regions},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Sport Sciences Research and Technology Support - Volume 1: icSPORTS},
year={2023},
pages={144-150},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0012184400003587},
isbn={978-989-758-673-6},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Sport Sciences Research and Technology Support - Volume 1: icSPORTS
TI - Accelerometer Based Body Movement Quantification in Classroom Lectures: Seated Activity Comparison Between Body Regions
SN - 978-989-758-673-6
AU - Asad Ullah Khan M.
AU - Gallè F.
AU - Ballarin G.
AU - Calella P.
AU - Cerullo G.
AU - Liguori G.
AU - Valerio G.
PY - 2023
SP - 144
EP - 150
DO - 10.5220/0012184400003587
PB - SciTePress