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ABSTRACT
A universal approach to characterizing sport-related physical activity (PA) types in sport settings does not yet exist. Young adults (n = 30), 19–33 years, engaged in a 15-min activity session, performing warm-ups, 3-on-3 soccer, and 3-on-3 basketball. Videos were recorded and manually coded as criterion PA types (walking, running, jumping, rapid lateral movements). Participants wore an accelerometer on their right hip. Multiple machine learning models were developed and compared for predicting PA type. Most models underestimated time spent completing the activities performed least commonly. Point estimates for percent agreement, sensitivity, specificity, F-scores, and kappa were similar across models, with Hidden Markov Models (HMMs) being best at classifying rare events. Models detected activity type during sport-related movements with modest accuracy (kappas ≤ .40). Given the better performance of HMMs, incorporating the temporal nature of sport-related activities is important for improving sport-related PA classification.
Acknowledgments
The authors thank Kim Clevenger, Callum Davis, Brent Geers, Kaitlin O’Hagan, Arthur Yan, and the undergraduate and medical students from Michigan State University (MSU) who assisted with data processing. Funding support was received from the MSU College of Education Seed Grant Program and the Virginia Horne Henry Fund for Women’s Physical Education.
Disclosure statement
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Supplementary material
Supplemental data for this article can be accessed online at https://doi.org/10.1080/1091367X.2022.2069467