Testing of a long-term fall detection system incorporated into a custom vest for the elderly

Proceedings of the 30th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBS'08 - "Personalized Healthcare through Technology"

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 2844-2847

  Bourke, Alan K ^a,b   Van De Ven, Pepijn W J ^a   Chaya, Amy E ^b,c   ÓLaighin, Gearóid M ^b   Nelson, John ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIMERICK   (Ireland)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENGINEERING; INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; DAILY ACTIVITY; ELDERLY PERSONS; ELDERLY POPULATIONS; HEALTHY SUBJECTS; POSTURE DETECTION; SENSOR SYSTEMS; TRIAXIAL ACCELEROMETER;

PATIENT MONITORING;

ACCELERATION; AGED; ALGORITHM; AMBULATORY MONITORING; ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; CLOTHING; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FALLING; HUMAN; MATERIALS TESTING; METHODOLOGY; MICROCOMPUTER; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); PHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

ACCELERATION; ACCIDENTAL FALLS; AGED; ALGORITHMS; BIOMECHANICAL PHENOMENA; CLOTHING; COMPUTERS, HANDHELD; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMANS; MATERIALS TESTING; MONITORING, AMBULATORY; MOVEMENT; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 61849093250     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/iembs.2008.4649795     Document Type: Conference Paper

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