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Sustainability Campaign

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This past year, movisens placed great value on a more sustainable design of the entire value chain. We significantly reduced the use of plastics and substantially cut transport emissions. In order to end the year striving for improved sustainability, we came up with something new for our Christmas campaign this year.

movisens would like to use this year's Christmas campaign to make a positive contribution to environmental issues. For this purpose, we selected three sustainable projects that require support in the coming year. Our newsletter subscribers had the possibility to give their vote for one of three sustainable projects.

The first donation would go to the Nature Conservation Southern Palatinate Association which is committed to the restoration of the cultural landscape and the protection of the native biodiversity.
Secondly, we selected the regional group of the Economy for the common good in Karlsruhe. A donation would support the implementation of an ecological, social and economic balance sheet within regional small and medium-size enterprises.
Last but not least a donation for the organization “Stop Talking Start Planting” would support children planting a million trees in order to achieve a positive Co2 balance.

Best practice session with movisens: The valid and reliable measurement of sedentary behavior

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"Whoever sits longer dies younger"" and ""Sitting is the new smoking"".
These headlines come from recent behavioral and health related studies. Due to such conclusions sedentary behavior demands the attention of researchers, and the general public looks on with interest.

With the activity sensor Move 4 movisens provides a convenient way to track the activity levels of the participants, distinguish between sitting/lying and standing, determine the level of activity intensity and trigger interventions through the experience sampling app movisensXS.

In our webinar „Best practice session with movisens: The valid and reliable measurement of sedentary behavior movisens presents modern sensor solutions, and shares information from experienced researchers within the field of sedentary behavior. Enrol in our webinar to learn the best strategies to measure sedentary behavior.


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New partner in the USA

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movisens proudly announces our new sales partner Brain Vision LLC.
Brain Vision now distributes our range of sensors across North America.
We're looking forward to a successful partnership.

movisens official partner of the Young Academics (DVS)

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movisens is now an official partner of the „Young Academics“ of the German Association for Sports Science (DVS).
As leader for mobile sensor technology, movisens has provided universities and research institutions with the latest technology for over 10 years, and supports scientists in their quest for new knowledge.

We are looking forward to presenting our innovative sensor solutions for Ambulatory Assessment and Mobile Monitoring at the upcoming DVS young talents workshops and to regularly inform them about the developments at movisens.

We would like to thank the "Young Acadmics" committee for this great opportunity for continued cooperation.
Further information about the work of the DVS "Young Academics" commission can be found on the corresponding website: Young Academics“.

Research during a pandemic

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The current situation poses a great challenge for the research field.
In our next Webinar: Research during a pandemic, movisens details how you can continue your Ambulatory Assessment Study with our products even in times of crisis.
We present you a method to enable contact-free work with movisens products and highlight what special features movisens offers.

Register directly for the webinar here.

The meaning of Move 4 as Inertial measurement units (IMUs)

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Pervasive healthcare is among the most prominent fields of research with an increasing demand for IMUs.
Inertial measurement units (IMUs) are electronic devices that typically consist of a 3-axis accelerometer (which measures linear acceleration) and a 3-axis gyroscope (which measures angular velocity).
Typically, IMUs are used to track movement patterns or recognize activities of the user like gait analisis.

The newly published paper (How We Found Our IMU: Guidelines to IMU Selection and a Comparison of Seven IMUs for Pervasive Healthcare Applications) shows that also in gait analysis the sensor Move 4 of movisens supplies outstanding results!

IMU device specification of the Move 4

Onboard Memory

4GB

Battery Capacity

380mAh

Max. Sampling Rate

Max. sampling rate can be customized to 256 Hz

Accelerometer Range

±16 g

Gyroscope Range

±2000 deg/s

Additional Sensors

Barometer

Temperature Sensor

Ambient Light Sensor (LightMove 4)

IR Sensor (Customizing: Integration of an IR temperature sensor)

Respiration Sensor (Customizing: Integration of an respiration sensor)

Charging Options

Micro USB

Additional Adaptor/Dock

Waterproof

IP64

Developer Options

Java API

The importance of accelerometry and gyroscope for eating behaviour and associated intake

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The article "OREBA: A Dataset for Objectively Recognizing Eating Behaviour and Associated Intake“ (Rouast et al., 2020) shows a comprehensive multi-sensor recording of communal intake occasions for researchers interested in automatic detection of intake gestures.
Modern multi-sensors like the Move 4 provide researchers the ability to collect objectively a large dataset regarding the accelerometry and gyroscope-data. That is very important for automatic detection of intake gestures that is a key element of autonomic dietary monitoring. Read more and klick the article above.

SensorManager Update

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The new SensorManager Update is now available!

New Features:
  • Improved interoperability between sensor and movisensXS
  • Optimized readout of very long measurements
  • Usability improvements
SensorManager

Student Poject of the Year

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As part of movisens' 10th anniversary, the best student project is being awarded a prize for the student and the supervisor. You can now register for this competition with your student project. Every successfully completed student project can take part in the competition. This also applies to former students who have successfully completed a student project together with movisens in the past 10 years.

Student Project of the Year