Estimating Oxygen Uptake During Nonsteady-State Activities and Transitions Using Wearable Sensors

In this paper, we present a method to estimate oxygen uptake (VO2) during daily life activities and transitions between them. First, we automatically locate transitions between activities and periods of nonsteady-state VO2. Subsequently, we propose and compare activity-specific linear functions to model steady-state activities and transition-specific nonlinear functions to model nonsteady-state activities and transitions. We evaluate our approach in study data from 22 participants that wore a combined accelerometer and heart rate sensor while performing a wide range of activities (clustered into lying, sedentary, dynamic/household, walking, biking and running), including many transitions between intensities, thus resulting in nonsteady-state VO2. Indirect calorimetry was used in parallel to obtain VO2 reference. VO2 estimation error during transitions between sedentary, household and walking activities could be reduced by 16% on average using the proposed approach, compared to state of the art methods.

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