Improving the accuracy of pedometer used by the elderly with the FFT algorithm

Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise

Volumn 38, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 1674-1681

  Ichinoseki Sekine, Noriko ^a,d   Kuwae, Yutaka ^b   Higashi, Yuji ^b   Fujimoto, Toshiro ^b   Sekine, Masaki ^c   Tamura, Toshiyo ^c  

^a TOKYO DENKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Fujimoto Hayasuzu Hospital   (Japan)

^c CHIBA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d JUNTENDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Acceleration; Cadence; Fast Fourier transform (FFT); Number of walk steps

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATION; ACCELEROMETER; ACCURACY; AGED; ALGORITHM; ANALYTICAL EQUIPMENT; ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; FOURIER TRANSFORMATION; GAIT DISORDER; HUMAN; JAPAN; MALE; PEDOMETER; POWER SPECTRUM; SIGNAL DETECTION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRIAXIAL ACCELERATION SIGNAL; WALKING AID; WALKING SPEED;

ACCELERATION; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; FOURIER ANALYSIS; GAIT DISORDERS, NEUROLOGIC; HUMANS; MALE; MONITORING, AMBULATORY; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; WALKING;

EID: 33748524865     PISSN: 01959131     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1249/01.mss.0000227641.68360.c2     Document Type: Article

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