A wearable triaxial accelerometry system for longitudinal assessment of falls risk

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 2840-2843

  Narayanan, Michael R ^a   Scalzi, Maria Elena ^b   Redmond, Stephen J ^a   Lord, Steven R ^a   Celler, Branko G ^a   Lovell, Nigel H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCELEROMETERS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK PERCEPTION; WEARABLE TECHNOLOGY;

DETECTION SYSTEM; DEVELOPED COUNTRIES; ELDERLY POPULATIONS; FUNCTIONAL ABILITIES; LINEAR LEAST-SQUARES MODEL; RELATED INJURIES; RISK STRATIFICATION; ROOT MEAN SQUARED ERRORS;

ACCIDENT PREVENTION;

ACCELERATION; AGED; AMBULATORY MONITORING; ARTICLE; CLOTHING; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FALLING; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MATERIALS TESTING; METHODOLOGY; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); PHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; STATISTICAL MODEL; VERY ELDERLY;

ACCELERATION; ACCIDENTAL FALLS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CLOTHING; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MATERIALS TESTING; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MONITORING, AMBULATORY; MOVEMENT; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 61849125934     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/iembs.2008.4649794     Document Type: Conference Paper

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