The future of activity space and health research

Abstract

We discuss the future of activity space and health research in the context of a recently published systematic review. Our discussion outlines a number of elements for reflection among the research community. We need to think beyond activity space and reconceptualize exposure in era of high volume, high precision location data. We need to develop standardized methods for understanding global positioning system data. We must adopt replicable scientific computing processes and machine learning models. Finally, we must embrace modern notions of causality in order to contend with the conceptual challenges faced by our research field.