The design of the SensVest

Personal and Ubiquitous Computing

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 6-19

  Knight, James F ^a   Schwirtz, Anthony ^a   Psomadelis, Fotis ^b   Baber, Chris ^a   Bristow, Huw H ^a   Arvanitis, Theodoros N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b ANCO SA   (Greece)

Author keywords

Design; Energy expenditure; Ergonomics; SensVest; Wearable computer

Indexed keywords

ACCELEROMETERS; EDUCATION; ERGONOMICS; SENSORS; STUDENTS;

ENERGY EXPENDITURE; SENSVEST;

WEARABLE COMPUTERS;

EID: 13444305302     PISSN: 16174909     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00779-004-0269-8     Document Type: Article

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