Workshop Program

ICAMPAM Registration

ICAMPAM 2024 Workshops. $30 fee to attend workshops. Space maybe limited.

Tuesday, June 18, 2024  09:30-11:00am

Workshop 1

OBJECTIVELY MEASURING ARM ACTIVITY USING WEARBLE SENSORS

Sahel Akbari, Erasmus Medical Centre and Technical University of Delft
Danny Lemmers, Erasmus Medical Centre, Technical University of Delft, and Erasmus University Rotterdam

In this workshop, we will discuss the process of tailored measurement of Upper Extremity (UE) activity monitoring and assessment at home, utilizing wearable sensors. The primary focus will be on movement patterns of stroke patients and how to extract clinically relevant measures from these patterns. By the end of the workshop, participants will:

  • Gain insight into the principles of rehabilitation after a stroke, as well as the clinical requirements and challenges associated with monitoring UE activity in stroke patients at home.
  • Understand the possibilities and challenges involved in utilizing IMU sensor data to assess UE activity.
  • Apply acquired knowledge to process IMU data and extract clinically relevant measures from wearable sensors.

Workshop 2

ACTIMETRIC R PACKAGE: APPLYING ML-BASED ALGORITHMS TO ACCELEROMETER RAW DATA

Jairo H. Migueles, University of Granada
Matthew Ahmadi, University of Sydney

In this workshop, we will discuss the use of ML-based algorithms in accelerometer-based physical activity measurement and how did we get here – the path from some R scripts to a complete R package. By the end of the workshop, participants will:

  • Gain insight into the purpose and functionalities of the package
  • Understand the opportunities and challenges of an R package to share methods and how to contribute to the development of actimetric
  • Apply acquired knowledge: learn basic R skills required; use cases/exercises; and looking at the output via datasets and visualizations

Workshop 3

LEARNINGS FROM THE UK BIOBANK STUDY

Aiden Doherty, University of Oxford
Adam Lewandowski, Deputy Chief Scientist, UK Biobank
Alaina Shreves, National Cancer Institute

The collection of wrist-worn accelerometer data in 100,000 UK Biobank participants 10 years ago has transformed how we conduct research. In this workshop we will discuss the study design of UK Biobank, share example uses of the resource, and welcome input around ideas to further enhance this global research resource in future. By the end of this workshop participants will learn:

  • Background on UK Biobank (Adam Lewandowski)
  • Wearables data currently collected in UK Biobank (Aiden Doherty)
  • How to access UK Biobank data using Amazon Web Services to support epidemiological analysis (Alaina Shreves)
  • Opportunity for new wearable assessments in UK Biobank (Adam Lewandowski)

Tuesday, June 18, 2024  11:30am-1:00pm

Workshop 4

AT THE CROSSROADS OF POPULATION MEASUREMENT OF PHYSICAL ACTIVITY: A DISCUSSION FORUM WITH THE WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION

Dr Fiona Bull, Head of Unit, Physical Activity, WHO HQ
Dr Rick Troiano, Consultant, Physical Activity Unit, WHO HQ
Dr Juana Willumsen, Technical Officer, Physical Activity unit, WHO HQ

This workshop will introduce participants to the global work of WHO on promoting physical activity (including global policy guidance, guidelines, policy implementation tools and metrics and instruments for population monitoring). The workshop will focus in detail on the current programme of work on updating global guidance on the measurement and surveillance of population prevalence of physical inactivity and related behaviours.

The session will include an overview presentation from WHO followed by a panel discussion including Q&A. Participants will be invited to contribute and inform the development of a consensus on an open-source algorithm suitable to produce the metrics necessary to report on current and anticipated future WHO guidelines. Discussion will scope the requirements for validation of an algorithm for use with raw acceleration data collected from a generic wearable device suitable for surveillance in low-income countries.

Panel members:
Charles Matthews – National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health
Sarah Keadle – California Polytechnic Institute San Luis Obispo
Jairo Migueles – University of Granada
Alex Rowlands – University of Leicester
Aiden Doherty – University of Oxford

Workshop 5

REPRODUCIBLE DATA ANALYSIS AT SCALE USING CONTAINERS ON CENTREPOINT

Ali Neishabouri, PhD,  Head of Data Science, ActiGraph

This workshop focuses on the importance of creating robust pipelines for reproducible analysis of the large amounts of data collected using wearables. We will discuss primarily use of docker containers to encapsulate algorithms that can run on ActiGraph’s CentrePoint platform.

By the end of this workshop, participants will:

  1.  Understand challenges faced when trying to reproduce analysis with various library/OS versions.
  2.  Gain insight on how ActiGraph’s CentrePoint platform allows to integrate third-party containers.
  3.  Learn how to encapsulate algorithms into containers that can run on any machine, including on CentrePoint.

Workshop 6

THE DAILY ACTIVITY CYCLE: ARE WE MORE THAN THE SUM OF OUR STEPS?

David Loudon, Douglas Maxwell, Craig Speirs, PAL Technologies
Thomas Poirier, SAMMed

In this workshop we will explore the daily patterns of sleeping, sitting, standing, and stepping and how these can be quantified as measures of participation and participant ability. By the end of this workshop, participants will have considered:

  • What defines the daily activity cycle?
  • What are the differences between behavioural and biometric outcomes?
  • What are upright behaviours, how might we characterise them, and why are they important?