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Research Support

Active Support

RO1 CA121005 (Freedson, PI) NIH 9/1/06-8/30/11
Novel Analytic Techniques to Assess Physical Activity
The major goals of this project are to develop and validate new data processing methods for interpretation of accelerometer based physical activity measurement.
   
UO1 CA130783 (Freedson, PI) NIH 8/1/07-6/30/11
Development of an Integrated Measurement System to Assess Physical Activity  
The major goals of this project are to develop, calibrate and validate a new multi-sensor activity monitor that assesses motion, respiration and environmental context.
   
3RO1CA121005-03S1 (Freedson, PI) NIH 6/13/08-6/12/10
Novel Analytic Techniques to Assess Physical Activity  
This is a Research Supplement to Promote Diversity in Health Related Research award for Sofiya Alhassan who is developing neural network system to identify physical activities and estimate activity energy expenditure in children.  This award is a supplement to the RO1, P. Freedson (PI) (CA121005).
   
Vanderbilt University (Fowke, PI) 4/1/09-3/31/14
Sub-contract for RO1DK080126-02  
A New Instrument to Comprehensively Assess Sedentary Behavior  
The major goal of this project is to develop and validate either a single or age group specific self-report instrument that assesses sedentary behavior in adolescents and adults.
 
1RC1HL099557-01 9/30/09 – 8/31/11
Advancing Physical Activity Measurement Using Pattern Recognition Techniques  

The major goal of this project is to apply pattern recognition techniques to accelerometer output to examine its sensitivity to assessing change in physical activity and to determine if  accelerometer measured physical activity level, assessed with pattern recognition techniques outside of purposeful training explains differences in responsiveness to training.
 
 

Completed

HHSN261200700343P  (Freedson, PI) 8/27/07-12/31/08
Contract with NCI
Comparison of the 7164 Actigraph and the GT1M Actigraph during Self-paced Walking in Adults
The major goal of this project was to compare the output of the two models of the Actigraph accelerometer

 

 

 

 

If you are interested in participating in a research study, please contact the lab at 413-545-1583 or email Kristin at klhouse@kin.umass.edu

 

 

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