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Place and Health<br />1<br />

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Why We Care<br />The built environment impacts health by impacting:<br />Access & Exposure<br />2<br />

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Access<br />3<br />

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Exposure<br />4<br />

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Active Living Research<br />Established in 2001, ALR supports research to identify environmental factors and policies that influence physical activity.<br />Administered by San Diego State University Research Foundation.<br />Led by Dr. James Sallis<br />5<br />

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Genes & Environment Initiative<br />The Genes and Environment Initiative is a five-year, NIH-wide effort to identify the genetic and environmental basis of asthma, diabetes, cancer, and other common illnesses<br />SENSORS<br />SYSTEMS<br />ANALYTICS<br />6<br />

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Physical<br />Activity<br />Location<br />Measurement<br />System<br />7<br />

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The PALMS Story<br />PALMS SYSTEM<br />ANA<br />L<br />Y<br />S<br />I<br />S<br />GIS<br />LOCATION<br />Data Processing<br />Merging & Calculations<br />INDIVIDUALS<br />BEHAVIOR<br />SENSING<br />TECHNOLOGY<br />STATISTICS<br />User Interface<br />TIME<br />Web-based<br />ENVIRONMENT<br />EXPOSURE<br />System Architecture<br />VIZUALIZE<br />Security & Sharing<br />Add Data Sources<br />Collaborate<br />Study Creation<br />Re-analyze<br />Researcher Points of Entry<br />8<br />

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Sensors for Physical Activity, Location & Exposure<br />Physical activity<br />M – Actigraph<br />M – Actical<br />HR+M - Actiheart<br />HR+M – Actitrainer<br />HR+M+ respiration + skin temp – Bioharness<br />Location - GPS<br />DG-100<br />BT-335<br />Qstarz 1000<br />9<br />

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Accelerometers and heart rate monitors tell how active and when…<br />10<br />

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When combined with GPS, we also know where activity occurs<br />Heart rate<br />shown in<br />Google Earth<br /> resting lightmoderatevigorous<br />11<br />

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When combined with GIS, we know the context in which activity occurs<br />Heart rate<br />shown in<br />ESRI ArcGIS<br />against land use<br />12<br />

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PALMS GPS Data Cleaning<br />Before – Multi-story buildings generate noise<br />After – Noise removedYellow = walking Orange = pausedGray circles = relative time at location<br />13<br />

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Indoor/Outdoor Detection with location clustering<br />OutdoorsIndoors / In-vehicle<br />Locations shown in gray<br />14<br />

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PALMS CVS Outputanalyzed by ArcGIS system<br />Activity within parks by accelerometer count coded by intensity<br />Activity within parks<br />15<br />

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PALMS is being designed for Data Sharing<br />“… making data as widely and freely available as possible, while safeguarding the privacy of participants, and protecting confidential and proprietary data.” – NIH1<br />—Data related to your own specialty—Rare data<br />— Clinical population data —Pooled data<br />— Data promoting education —Test/training data <br />— Calculations & visualizations —Protocols<br />1http://grants.nih.gov/grants/policy/data_sharing/data_sharing_guidance.htm <br />16<br />

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Our Questions<br />Large Data Sets<br />Population vs. Individuals<br />Time Dependence<br />Visualizations<br />Pattern Recognition<br />17<br />

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Ernesto Ramirez<br />erramirez@ucsd.edu<br />Fredric Raab<br />fraab@ucsd.edu<br />cwphs.ucsd.edu<br />All photos via Flickr (Slide#/Flickr ID)<br />1/caveman_92223 2/CarbonNYC 3/mrbling<br />4/respres 5/soaptrail 6/gringod 17/oberazzi<br />