Jawbone studies the impact of climate on physical activity

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Several studies have been conducted over time on the effects of climatic conditions on physical activity and the propensity to participate in sport. Jawbone has just performed an analysis itself using data collected by hundreds of thousands of Jawbone UP on the American continent.

Jawbone is, on this study, only focused on temperature, not wind or rainy precipitation (data retrieved from the National Climatic Data Center). The company then compared this data with the number of steps taken by wearers of UP bracelets.

A real difference in behavior on weekends

This study highlights two main observations:

  • There is an ideal range (from 17 to 25 ° C) for physical activity. Users move more when the temperature is comfortable.

  • Temperature plays a bigger role on days when people have the choice to move (weekends)

During the week, people have less choice to be active or not, because dictated by their pace of life. On weekends, you can choose to stay at health home or get active. During the week, people take 5% more steps when it is 21 ° C instead of 4 ° C, at weekends this percentage is three times higher (15%).

Jawbone Temperature Study
Temeprature weekend study

This study, after studies on sleep, the impact of an earthquake and nutrition habits, shows once again that the data collected by smart health connected objects can have concrete uses for science and researchers. Big Data has a bright future ahead of it!

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