eMouveResearch

eMouveResearch provides you an estimation of your daily energy expenditure and of the time you spent in 4 categories of activities, without any action required on your part. For this purpose, the app uses your smartphone's accelerometer, which detects movements.


The 4 categories of activities are the following:
• sedentary activities
• light-intensity activities
• moderate-intensity activities
• vigorous activities


This app is only available for INRA volunteers who own an account on ActivCollector: https://activcollector.clermont.inra.fr/


Please not that eMouveResearch does not work correctly on all phones. Indeed, the accelerometer needs to stay active when the phone is sleeping. A compatibility check is executed during the first launch, and models known not to work correctly are reported via Google Play. If your phone does not work correctly, please send us an email to let us update the list of incompatible devices.


A workaround consists in deactivating automatic sleeping mode in your phone's parameters, but note that it will drain your battery much faster than usual.


For information, here are the reasons of the permissions required by eMouveResearch:
• Modifying USB memory content: the app collects and stores accelerometry data on your phone.
• Managing accounts : the app creates an account linked to ActivCollector.
• Full network access: in order to communicate with ActivCollector and to send your data to INRA.
• Run at startup: for activating the process of data sending, if needed.
• Prevent phone from sleeping: in order for the app to collect data when the phone is asleep.
• Synchronisation : used to synchronise your account's data.


eMouveResearch has been developed by the Human Nutrition Unit of INRA in collaboration with Almerys and the University Hospital of Clermont-Ferrand.