development and validation of a new method to measure walking speed in free-living environments using the actibelt？ platform开发和验证的一种新方法测量步行速度在独立生存的环境中使用actibelt 平台.pdfVIP

Development and Validation of a New Method to Measure Walking Speed in Free-Living Environments Using the ActibeltH Platform 1,2 2 1,2 Michaela Schimpl , Christian Lederer , Martin Daumer * 1Trium Analysis Online GmbH, Munich, Germany, 2 Sylvia Lawry Centre for Multiple Sclerosis Research e.V. - The Human Motion Institute, Munich, Germany Abstract Walking speed is a fundamental indicator for human well-being. In a clinical setting, walking speed is typically measured by means of walking tests using different protocols. However, walking speed obtained in this way is unlikely to be representative of the conditions in a free-living environment. Recently, mobile accelerometry has opened up the possibility to extract walking speed from long-time observations in free-living individuals, but the validity of these measurements needs to be determined. In this investigation, we have developed algorithms for walking speed prediction based on 3D accelerometry data (actibeltH) and created a framework using a standardized data set with gold standard annotations to facilitate the validation and comparison of these algorithms. For this purpose 17 healthy subjects operated a newly developed mobile gold standard while walking/running on an indoor track. Subsequently, the validity of 12 candidate algorithms for walking speed prediction ranging from well-known simple approaches like combining step length with frequency to more sophisticated algorithms such as linear and non-linear models was assessed using statistical measures. As a result, a novel algorithm employing support vector regression was found to perform best with a concordance correlation coeffic