School of Public Health, Prevention Research Collaboration and Charles Perkins Centre, The University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, 2006, Australia.
School of Public Health, Prevention Research Collaboration and Charles Perkins Centre, The University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, 2006, Australia.
Appl Ergon. 2021 Apr;92:103341. doi: 10.1016/j.apergo.2020.103341. Epub 2020 Dec 24.
Office workers can spend significant periods of time being stationary whilst at work, with potentially serious health consequences. The development of effective health interventions could be aided by a greater understanding of the location and environmental context in which this stationary behaviour occurs. Real time location systems (RTLS) potentially offer the opportunity to gather this much needed information, but they have not been extensively trialled in office workplaces, nor rigorously compared against more familiar devices such as accelerometers. The aim of this paper was to determine whether an RTLS can measure and spatially locate the non-stationary and stationary behaviours of adults working in an office work environment. Data collected from a series of comparison studies undertaken in a commercial office building suggests that RTLS can measure the velocity at which people are moving and locate them, when stationary, with an accuracy of 0.668 m (SD 0.389). This opens up significant opportunities to further understand how people move within buildings, the indoor physical environmental influences on that movement, and the development of effective interventions to help people to move more whilst at work.
办公人员在工作时可能会长时间保持静止状态，这可能会对他们的健康造成严重影响。如果能更深入地了解导致这种静止行为发生的位置和环境背景，就能有助于开发出有效的健康干预措施。实时定位系统（RTLS）有可能提供获取这些急需信息的机会，但它们尚未在办公场所中进行广泛测试，也没有与更熟悉的设备（如加速度计）进行严格比较。本文旨在确定 RTLS 是否可以测量和定位在办公环境中工作的成年人的非静止和静止行为。从在商业办公楼中进行的一系列比较研究中收集的数据表明，RTLS 可以测量人员移动的速度，并在人员静止时以 0.668 米（SD 0.389）的精度定位他们。这为进一步了解人们在建筑物内的移动方式、对该移动方式有影响的室内物理环境以及开发有效的干预措施以帮助人们在工作时更多地移动提供了重要机会。
