Modelling techniques for analysis of human activity patterns

Holloway, Philip, St Clair Gibson, Alan, Lee, David, Lambert, Estelle, Angelova, Maia, Lombardo, Sara, Ellis, Jason and Rauch, Laurie (2012) Modelling techniques for analysis of human activity patterns. In: 6th IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Systems, 6-8 September 2012, Sofia, Bulgaria.

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Abstract

We investigate the complexity and recurrence properties of human activity measured from forearm movement in individuals carrying out their normal daily routines. We show that complexity in activity decreases with age and speculate that this coincides with a reduction in healthy behaviour and could also indicate that one of the underlying physiological systems that help control and maintain a person's activity levels could also be declining. We also uncover a threshold that exists in the 60-70 age-group and hypothesise that this be a possible peak in human activity levels.

Item Type:	Conference or Workshop Item (Paper)
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Aging , Complexity theory , Doped fiber amplifiers , educational institutions, fluctuations, physiology, time series analysis
Subjects:	C800 Psychology F300 Physics G100 Mathematics
Department:	Faculties > Health and Life Sciences > Psychology
Depositing User:	Ellen Cole
Date Deposited:	13 Dec 2012 10:37
Last Modified:	12 Oct 2019 16:30
URI:	http://nrl.northumbria.ac.uk/id/eprint/10757

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