MdM Keynote Speaker Series 2023: "Using GPS and accelerometers to evaluate the behavioral effect of changes to the built environment"

Prof. Jasper Schipperijn, from University of Southern Denmark, will be giving a keynote on “Using GPS and accelerometers to evaluate the behavioral effect of changes to the built environment”. Our invited speaker will be available for informal meetings with ICTA-UAB researchers afterwards.   

 

MdM Keynote Speaker Series 2023

Title: “Using GPS and accelerometers to evaluate the behavioral effect of changes to the built environment”

Speaker: Jasper Schipperijn, Professor in Active Living Environments at the Department of Sports Science and Clinical Biomechanics, University of Southern Denmark    
 

Date: Thursday, 2^nd of March 2023  
Time: from 12:00 to 13:00 
Venue: Room Z/023 - Z/022 - Online: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88025273924?pwd=YkRaekloOU9sVld1TzJCNXRJTFlNQT09
ID de reunión: 880 2527 3924 - Código de acceso: 070488 

 

BRIEF BIOGRAPHY and EXPERTISE

Jasper Schipperijn is an expert on GPS and accelerometer uses to track and understand human behavior in relation to the built environment. He has an MSc degree in Forest and Nature Management from Wageningen University, and a PhD degree in Greenspace Management from the University of Copenhagen, Denmark. His research interests revolve around three main topics 1) playgrounds, 2) conducting multi-disciplinary intervention studies to create active living environments and 3) developing tools and methods that make it possible to measure active living and the environment it takes place in. Jasper has published over 140 peer-reviewed articles and numerous reports and popular publications.From 2020 to 2022, Jasper was President of the International Society for Physical Activity and Health (ISPAH). Since early 2022, he is heading a the World Playground Research Institute 
 

TOPIC of the KEYNOTE 

Human behaviour is influenced by the environment it happens in, and changes in the built environment often lead to changes in behaviour. If policy makers want to promote a certain behaviour, for example active transportation or children’s play, making changes to the built environment is one of the possibilities. Evaluating the effect of changes in the built environment is challenging for researchers and while using wearable devices such as GPS and accelerometers provides many conceptual and methodological benefits, it also provides a new set of challenges. The lecture will provide examples of projects that made changes in the built environment, evaluations of these projects, and highlight when and how the device-based measures can be useful. 
 

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