Office workers can spend significant periods of time being stationary whilst at work, with potentially serious health consequences. The development of effective health interventions could be aided by a greater understanding of the location and environmental context in which this stationary behaviour occurs. Real time location systems (RTLS) potentially offer the opportunity to gather this much needed information, but they have not been extensively trialled in office workplaces, nor rigorously compared against more familiar devices such as accelerometers. The aim of this paper was to determine whether an RTLS can measure and spatially locate the non-stationary and stationary behaviours of adults working in an office work environment. Data collected from a series of comparison studies undertaken in a commercial office building suggests that RTLS can measure the velocity at which people are moving and locate them, when stationary, with an accuracy of 0.668 m (SD 0.389). This opens up significant opportunities to further understand how people move within buildings, the indoor physical environmental influences on that movement, and the development of effective interventions to help people to move more whilst at work.

办公室工作人员在工作时可能会花费大量时间静止不动，这可能会对健康造成严重后果。更好地了解这种静止行为发生的位置和环境背景，可以帮助制定有效的健康干预措施。实时定位系统 (RTLS) 可能提供收集这些急需信息的机会，但它们尚未在办公室工作场所进行广泛试验，也未与更熟悉的设备（如加速度计）进行严格比较。本文的目的是确定 RTLS 是否可以测量和空间定位在办公室工作环境中工作的成年人的非平稳和静止行为。从在商业办公大楼中进行的一系列比较研究收集的数据表明，RTLS 可以测量人们移动的速度并在静止时定位他们，精度为 0.668 m (SD 0.389)。这为进一步了解人们如何在建筑物内移动、室内物理环境对移动的影响以及开发有效干预措施以帮助人们在工作时更多地移动提供了重要机会。