Wearable device for real-time monitoring of human falls

Measurement: Journal of the International Measurement Confederation

Volumn 40, Issue 9-10, 2007, Pages 831-840

  Lin, Chern Sheng ^a   Hsu, Hung Chun ^a   Lay, Yun Long ^b   Chiu, Chuang Chien ^a   Chao, Chi Shih ^a  

^a FENG CHIA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL CHIN YI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Monitoring human body falls; Real time; Wearable micro sensing device

Indexed keywords

DATA PROCESSING; MESSAGE PASSING; MICROSENSORS; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; USER INTERFACES; WEARABLE COMPUTERS;

MONITORING HUMAN BODY FALLS; WEARABLE MICRO-SENSING DEVICES;

HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION;

EID: 34848852226     PISSN: 02632241     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.measurement.2007.04.001     Document Type: Article

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