Preliminary investigation into the use of autonomous fall detectors

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 2828-2831

  Noury, N ^a   Galay, A ^b   Pasquier, J ^b   Ballussaud, M ^c  

^a UNIV GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

^b Sud Isère Télé Alarme   (France)

^c BSE Inc   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING;

DAILY ACTIVITY; FALL DETECTORS;

ENGINEERING;

ACCELERATION; ALGORITHM; AMBULATORY MONITORING; ARTICLE; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; CLOTHING; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FALLING; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PILOT STUDY; POWER SUPPLY; QUESTIONNAIRE; TRANSDUCER;

ACCELERATION; ACCIDENTAL FALLS; ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; ALGORITHMS; CLOTHING; ELECTRIC POWER SUPPLIES; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEEDBACK; HUMANS; MONITORING, AMBULATORY; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; PILOT PROJECTS; QUESTIONNAIRES; TRANSDUCERS;

EID: 61849171931     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/iembs.2008.4649791     Document Type: Conference Paper

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