Towards Intelligent Health and Well-Being Network of Physical Activity Assessment

PI at PROFITH/UGR: Francisco B Ortega
Contact: ortegaf@ugr.es
Network Coordinator: Luís B. Sardinha, University of Lisbon, Portugal
E-mail: lbsardinha55@gmail.com

Network Web: https://www.interlive.org/

Summary

Towards Intelligent Health and Well-Being Network of Physical Activity Assessment (INTERLIVE^®) is a joint European initiative of six universities and one industrial partner. The consortium was founded in 2019 and strives towards developing best-practice recommendations for evaluating the validity of consumer wearable and smartphones to measure direct and derived metrics.

Vision: A world where consumer wearable and smartphone devices can be used to measure direct and indirect metrics following standardized methods and protocols.
Mission: To foster expertise on the use of wearable and smartphone devices for measuring direct and indirect metrics to facilitate monitoring systems and influence individual decisions.
Goals: (1) To develop gold standard protocols for the validation of wearables in order to improve the accuracy and reliability of physical activity patterns assessment. (2) To increase awareness of the advantages and limitations of different validation protocols according to specific metrics. (3) To provide new health-related physical activity metrics and foster their wide spread use in the future.

Network Partners

University and Industrial Partners composing the INTERLIVE network, indicating the PIs at each organization  (https://www.interlive.org/team/ ):

• Luís B. Sardinha, University of Lisbon, Portugal, Coordinator.
• Moritz Schumann, German Sport University Cologne, Germany, Co-coordinator.
• Wilhelm Bloch & Sulin Cheng,German Sport University Cologne, Germany.
• Francisco B. Ortega, University of Granada, Spain.
• Ulf Ekelund, Norwegian School of Sport Sciences, Norway.
• Brian Caulfield, University College Dublin, Ireland.
• Anders Grøntved, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark.
• Siqi Hao, Huawei Technologies, Helsinki, Finland

Funding

This research was partly funded by Huawei Technologies, Finland. However, as per consortium agreement, the author of the article published representing the 6 partner universities are fully independent to decide on methods, data analysis, results and derived conclusions/recommendations, and full drafting of the articles and the funder had no role in the text of the articles to be submitted to scientific Journals.

Relevant information

Validation protocol for step counts:

Recommendations for determining the validity of consumer wearable and smartphone step-count: Expert statement of the INTERLIVE^® Network

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Validation protocol for heart rate:

Recommendations for determining the validity of consumer wearable heart rate devices: Expert statement of the INTERLIVE^® Network

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Validation protocol for energy expenditure:

Recommendations for Determining the Validity of Consumer Wearables and Smartphones for the Estimation of Energy Expenditure: Expert Statement and Checklist of the INTERLIVE Network

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Validation protocol for maximal oxygen consumption:

Validity of Estimating the Maximal Oxygen Consumption by Consumer Wearables: A Systematic Review with Meta-analysis and Expert Statement of the INTERLIVE Network

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