A prototype wireless inertial-sensing device for measuring toe clearance

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 4899-4902

  Lai, Daniel T H ^a   Charry, E ^b   Begg, R ^a   Palaniswami, M ^b  

^a VICTORIA UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA TRANSFER; GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACES; PATTERN RECOGNITION; SENSOR NODES; SPORTING GOODS; TEMPERATURE;

DATA TRANSMISSION RATES; DOUBLE-INTEGRATION; ENVIRONMENTAL VARIATIONS; GRAPHIC USER INTERFACE (GUI); MINIMUM TOE CLEARANCES; TEMPERATURE VARIATION; TRI-AXIS ACCELEROMETERS; WIRELESS DATA TRANSMISSION;

MHEALTH;

ACCELERATION; AMBULATORY MONITORING; ARTICLE; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE; FALLING; GAIT; HUMAN; PHYSIOLOGY; PILOT STUDY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TELEMETRY; TOE; TRANSDUCER;

ACCELERATION; ACCIDENTAL FALLS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; GAIT; HUMANS; MONITORING, AMBULATORY; PILOT PROJECTS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TELEMETRY; TOES; TRANSDUCERS;

EID: 61849171135     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/iembs.2008.4650312     Document Type: Conference Paper

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