Best practices for studying movement in the wild with wearable sensors (Hicks)

Wearable sensors, including inertial measurement units (IMUs), are portable and affordable and are quickly becoming a common alternative for biomechanics research. As the biomechanics community begins to embrace this technology and the ability to move out of the traditional laboratory setting, there are unexpected challenges and new opportunities for recording movement data in real-world settings. As a result, the community together needs to develop a set of best practices for analyzing movement outside of the lab with these new sensors. In this talk we will discuss two areas where new approaches and guidelines are needed: 1) understanding the number of days that must be measured and incorporating variations in environmental factors like weather, and 2) analyzing and gaining insights from large-scale observational data collected from consumer users of commercial wearables.