Wearable therapist: Sensing garments for supporting children improve posture

ACM International Conference Proceeding Series

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 85-88

  Harms, Holger ^a   Amft, Oliver ^a   Tröster, Gerhard ^a   Appert, Mirjam ^a   Müller, Roland ^a   Meyer Heim, Andreas ^b  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b University Children's   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Back posture; Rehabilitation; Smart garments; SMASH

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATION SENSORS; BENDING MEASUREMENT; DIFFERENT SIZES; HEAD POSITION; MEASUREMENT ACCURACY; OBJECTIVE ASSESSMENT; POSTURAL CONTROL; REFERENCE SYSTEMS; SENSOR POSITION; SMART GARMENTS; VISION BASED;

MILITARY TEXTILES; PATIENT REHABILITATION; SENSORS;

UBIQUITOUS COMPUTING;

EID: 70450188998     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1620545.1620558     Document Type: Conference Paper

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