Trend on Sedentary Behaviour Monitoring Research Purposes: A Review

Sedentary behavior monitoring was one of the interesting topic in Human Activity Recognition field implementation in health. This topic had been attracting many researchers because sedentary lifestyle can cause illness in the future. This paper reviewed 36 articles about sedentary behavior monitoring and the result shows about the shifting of sedentary behavior research purposes. The research purposes had been shifting from only monitor the user activity to the healthy lifestyle campaign with measuring on energy expenditure as a sedentary behavior parameter. There is some manner that caused the shifting of the research purposes. Those were the developing of information and communication technology and people awareness about healthy lifestyle against the sedentary lifestyle. Some issue was still challenging as future research topics like how to monitor the user's pose, and at the same time doing measure the user's energy expenditure. If we can solve these problems, then we can conclude an activity as a sedentary behavior lifestyle or not.