The COVID-19 pandemic has significantly impacted daily activity rhythms and life routines. Understanding the dynamics of these impacts on different groups of people is essential for creating environments where people's lives and well-being are least disturbed during such circumstances. Starting in June 2021, we conducted a year-long study to collect high-resolution data from fitness trackers as well as answers to monthly questionnaires from 128 working adults. Using questionnaires, we investigate how routines of exercising and working have changed throughout the pandemic for different people. In addition to that, for each person in the study, we build temporal distributions of daily step counts to quantify their daily movement rhythms and use the inverse of the Earth mover's distance between different movement rhythms to quantify the movement consistency over time. Throughout the pandemic, our cohort shows a shift in exercise routines, manifested in a decrease in time spent on non-walking physical exercises as opposed to the unchanged amount of time spent on walking. In terms of daily rhythms of movement, we show that migrants and those who live alone demonstrate a lower level of consistency of daily rhythms of movement compared to their counterparts. We also observe a relationship between movement and on-site work attendance, as participants who go to work (as opposed to working remotely) also tend to maintain more consistent daily rhythms of movement. Men and migrants show a faster pace in going back to work after the decrease in restriction measures that were set in place due to the pandemic. Our results quantitatively demonstrate the unequal effect of the pandemic among different sub-populations and inform organizations and policymakers to provide more adequate support and adapt to the different needs of different groups in the post-pandemic era.
翻译:2021年6月,我们进行了为期一年的研究,从健身跟踪者那里收集高清晰数据,并从128名工作成年人的每月问卷中收集了高清晰数据。我们用问卷调查在整个流行病期间不同人群的锻炼和工作习惯如何改变。此外,对于每个在研究中的人来说,我们建立每天步骤计数的时间分布,以量化其日常运动节奏,并利用地球移动者在不同运动节奏之间的偏差来量化其运动一致性。从2021年6月开始,我们进行了一项为期一年的研究,从健身跟踪者那里收集高清晰数据,并从128名工作成年人的每月问卷中收集答复。我们用问卷调查在整个大流行病期间,运动和工作习惯是如何改变的。除了这一点外,我们对每个在研究中的人来说,我们建立每日步骤计数的时间分布,以量化计数,以量化其日常运动节奏的时序的时序的时序分布都比较差,利用地球移动者之间移动节奏的偏差来逆地球移动节奏的距离,使用地球移动节奏的偏差来量化的距离来量化。在整个大流行病期间,我们观察了运动运动运动运动的进度的进度变化和运动的进度,参与者在工作进度上保持了较慢步步步步步步步。</s>