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A spherical-plot solution to linking acceleration metrics with animal performance, state, behaviour and lifestyle
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Mark Holton ,
James S. Walker,
Emily Shepard ,
D. Mike Scantlebury,
Vianney L. Wilson,
Gwendoline I. Wilson,
Brenda Tysse,
Mike Gravenor,
Javier Ciancio,
Melitta McNarry ,
Kelly Mackintosh ,
Lama Qasem,
Frank Rosell,
Patricia M. Graf,
Flavio Quintana,
Agustina Gomez-Laich,
Juan-Emilio Sala,
Christina C. Mulvenna,
Nicola J. Marks,
Mark Jones ,
Michael Gravenor
Movement Ecology, Volume: 4, Issue: 1
Swansea University Authors:
Rory Wilson , Mark Holton , Emily Shepard , Melitta McNarry , Kelly Mackintosh , Mark Jones , Michael Gravenor
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DOI (Published version): 10.1186/s40462-016-0088-3
Abstract
Background We are increasingly using recording devices with multiple sensors operating at high frequencies to produce large volumes of data which are problematic to interpret. A particularly challenging example comes from studies on animals and humans where researchers use animal-attached accelerome...
| Published in: | Movement Ecology |
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| ISSN: | 2051-3933 |
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2016
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| URI: | https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa30318 |
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Background We are increasingly using recording devices with multiple sensors operating at high frequencies to produce large volumes of data which are problematic to interpret. A particularly challenging example comes from studies on animals and humans where researchers use animal-attached accelerometers on moving subjects to attempt to quantify behaviour, energy expenditure and condition. Results The approach taken effectively concatenated three complex lines of acceleration into one visualization that highlighted patterns that were otherwise not obvious. The summation of data points within sphere facets and presentation into histograms on the sphere surface effectively dealt with data occlusion. Further frequency binning of data within facets and representation of these bins as discs on spines radiating from the sphere allowed patterns in dynamic body accelerations (DBA) associated with different postures to become obvious. Method We examine the extent to which novel, gravity-based spherical plots can produce revealing visualizations to incorporate the complexity of such multidimensional acceleration data using a suite of different acceleration-derived metrics with a view to highlighting patterns that are not obvious using current approaches. The basis for the visualisation involved three-dimensional plots of the smoothed acceleration values, which then occupied points on the surface of a sphere. This sphere was divided into facets and point density within each facet expressed as a histogram. Within each facet-dependent histogram, data were also grouped into frequency bins of any desirable parameters, most particularly dynamic body acceleration (DBA), which were then presented as discs on a central spine radiating from the facet. Greater radial distances from the sphere surface indicated greater DBA values while greater disc diameter indicated larger numbers of data points with that particular value. Conclusions We indicate how this approach links behaviour and proxies for energetics and can inform our identification and understanding of movement-related processes, highlighting subtle differences in movement and its associated energetics. This approach has ramifications that should expand to areas as disparate as disease identification, lifestyle, sports practice and wild animal ecology. |
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