ABSTRACT
Measurements of movement, physiology and behavior in naturalistic settings can be combined with the Experience Sampling Method pioneered by Csikszentmihalyi and others. In the absence of field observations, most of what people know about human behavior in the wild comes from human testimony and epidemiology—a partial and sometimes inaccurate account of human behaviors that influence public health. Naturalistic Settings is becoming increasingly evident that data collection in a naturalistic setting is a unique source for obtaining critical human factors data relevant to behavior "in the wild." The "people tracker" tools is designed to provide detailed information on the behavior, physiology, and pathophysiology of individuals in key, everyday situations, in settings, systems, and organizations where life goes on and things may go wrong. People tracker tools build upon principles and methods from this research, typically involving automated recording of behaviorally relevant data from external devices or physiological sensors placed on or implanted within an animal.
