A new microcomputer-based safety and life support system for solitary-living elderly people

Biomedical Sciences Instrumentation

Volumn 39, Issue , 2003, Pages 179-182

  Miyauchi, Kosuke ^a   Yonezawa, Yoshiharu ^a   Maki, Hiromichi ^b   Ogawa, Hidekuni ^a   Hahn, Allen W ^c   Caldwell, W Morton ^d  

^a HIROSHIMA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b International Trinity College   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^d Caldwell Biomedical Electronics   (United States)

Author keywords

A dual axis accelerometer; Automatically alarm; Body movement

Indexed keywords

ACCELEROMETERS; ACCIDENT PREVENTION; MICROCOMPUTERS;

HANDY PHONES;

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING;

ACCELEROMETER; ADULT; AGING; BODY MOVEMENT; BODY POSTURE; CONFERENCE PAPER; FALLING; GERIATRIC PATIENT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MICROCOMPUTER; NORMAL HUMAN; RUNNING; SAFETY; WALKING;

ACCELERATION; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CELLULAR PHONE; DIAGNOSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HEALTH SERVICES FOR THE AGED; HOME CARE SERVICES, HOSPITAL-BASED; HUMANS; MICROCOMPUTERS; MIDDLE AGED; MONITORING, AMBULATORY; MOVEMENT; POSTURE; TELEMEDICINE; TRANSDUCERS;

EID: 0037255733     PISSN: 00678856     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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