GetAMoveOn:transforming health through enabling mobility

当我们运动得更多时，我们会变得更聪明;当我们变得更强壮时，慢性疼痛就会减少。更大的运动，特别是在社交环境中，可以改善协作。当我们移动时，我们不仅减轻了压力：我们提高了处理压力情况的能力，并看到了更多创造性新解决方案的选择。运动可以增强力量和耐力，改善骨密度和平衡，减少跌倒和相关髋关节损伤（老年人死亡原因）的发生率。运动补充了其他功能，从帮助睡眠，从而帮助记忆和认知，到帮助饮食和相关激素-提高胰岛素敏感性和平衡皮质醇。最近的研究表明，运动对痴呆症有好处。然而，缺乏身体活动是全球第四大死亡原因;久坐症被称为“新吸烟”。与此同时，久坐症和相关疾病给英国GDP带来的成本正在增加--从病假损失到工作，再到老年人失去行动能力，不得不搬进养老院。我们已经把自己设计成了久坐症：上下班时坐着，工作时坐在办公桌前，在家坐在沙发上。现在迫切需要重新设计，使我们能够享受到仅仅通过更多地移动而产生的健康的自然效果。我们需要的解决方案将有助于建立证据和经验，证明运动可以改善和造福于人们的生活。新技术正在改变我们真实的捕捉个人生活方式数据的能力。消费者技术，如步计数器和wifi秤是冰山一角-世界各地的研究计划正在提出从摄像机到电表到可穿戴设备的生活方式数据捕获。与此同时，无处不在的连接允许数据通过强大的机器学习工具进行传输和处理，并在瞬间提供给人们。虽然我们了解潜在的技术，但我们还不知道如何有效地利用技术来支持变革性健康。目前的电子健康方法通常只覆盖一小部分已经对健身感兴趣的人群，个人数据采集，或两者兼而有之。此外，最近的两篇医学评论表明，服用这些药物的效果令人怀疑。为了对健康和福祉产生全国性的影响，减轻长期健康状况的沉重负担，并将医疗保健从诊所转移到社区，我们需要覆盖所有人，包括各种能力和愿望。我们需要将技术的潜力与人的潜力联系起来，并实现健康，聪明，人口的好处。实现这一潜力需要研究新的技术解决方案，并得到体育和健康科学理论的支持，这些理论将适当的运动策略与行为和认知科学相结合，以实现特定的性能愿望，从而使人们能够取得有效和有意义的进步。我们需要了解什么样的衡量标准不仅适用于评估进展，而且适用于引导和适应进展。为了在这些方面产生有意义的影响，我们需要结合联合收割机一系列专业知识，包括传感器网络、数据分析、交互式可视化、人机交互、在线公民参与、行为改变、体育运动和锻炼。在这个网络中，我们专注于运动作为健康的场所：这是我们的测试案例，因为它带来了许多其他有价值的好处：经济，社会和文化。目前的呼吁是一个理想的机会，以建立我们提出的网络，发展一个跨学科的英国社区，将通过提供经过测试的技术，促进健康，通过提供及时，个性化的反馈，鼓励适当的活动，以解决改变社区卫生和护理的EPSRC大挑战。

When we move more, we become smarter; as we become stronger, chronic pain decreases. Greater movement, especially in social contexts, improves collaboration. As we move, not only do we reduce stress: we improve our capacity to handle stressful situations and to see more options for creative new solutions. Movement enhances both strength and stamina, improves bone mineral density and balance, reducing incidence of falling and associated hip injuries (causes of death in the elderly). Movement complements other functions, from assisting with sleep and therefore memory and cognition, to helping with diet and associated hormones - improving insulin sensitivity and balancing cortisol. There are recent studies showing benefits of movement related to dementia. And yet, physical inactivity is the fourth leading cause of death worldwide; sedentarism has been called the "new smoking". Meanwhile costs to UK GDP from sedentarism and associated disease are increasing - from sick days lost to work, to elders losing mobility and having to move into care homes.We have designed ourselves into our sedentarism: sitting during our commute, at desks while we work, and at home on the sofa. There is a critical need to design ourselves back into the natural effects of health accrued simply by moving more. We need solutions that will help build both the evidence and the experience that movement can enhance and benefit people's lives. New technologies are transforming our ability to capture lifestyle data on individuals in real time. Consumer technologies such as step counters and wifi scales are the tip of an iceberg - research programmes worldwide are proposing lifestyle data capture from devices ranging from video cameras to electricity meters to wearables. Meanwhile pervasive connectivity allows that data to be transmitted, processed through powerful machine learning tools and provided back to people in a heartbeat. While we understand the potential technologies, we do not yet know how to leverage the technology effectively to support transformative health.Current approaches in ehealth generally only reach a small part of the population that is already interested in fitness, personal data capture, or both. Their uptake is, furthermore, of dubious effect as two recent medical reviews have shown. To have a national impact on health and wellbeing, to reduce the crippling burden of long term health conditions and to move healthcare from the clinic to the community, we need to reach everyone, across a range of abilities and aspirations. We need to connect the potential of the technology with the potential of people and realise the benefits of a healthy, brilliant, population. Realising this potential requires research on novel technical solutions, supported by theories from sports and health sciences on blending appropriate movement strategies for particular performance aspirations to behavioural and cognitive sciences on ways to engage people to make effective and meaningful progress. We need to understand what measures are appropriate not just to evaluate progress, but to guide it and adapt to it. To have meaningful impact across these dimensions we need to combine a range of expertise including sensor networks, data analytics, interactive visualisation, human computer interacton, online citizen engagement, behaviour change, sports, exercise. In this network we focus on movement as a locus for health: it is our test case as it drives so many other benefits that are of value: economically, socially and culturally. The current call is the ideal opportunity to establish our proposed network to develop an interdisciplinary UK community that will address the EPSRC Grand Challenge of transforming community health and care through the delivery of tested technologies that promote wellbeing by providing timely, individualised feedback that encourages appropriate activities.