Active capacitive sensing: Exploring a new wearable sensing modality for activity recognition

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 6030 LNCS, Issue , 2010, Pages 319-336

  Cheng, Jingyuan ^a   Amft, Oliver ^b   Lukowicz, Paul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PASSAU   (Germany)

^b EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVITY RECOGNITION; ANALOG HARDWARE; CAPACITIVE SENSING; CONDUCTIVE TEXTILES; HEAD MOTION; HUMAN BODIES; INTEGRATED ELECTRODES; ON-BODY; PHYSICAL PRINCIPLES; PHYSIOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; QUANTITATIVE EVALUATION; RECOGNITION ACCURACY; SHAPE CHANGE; WEARABLE SENSING;

ELECTRODES; SERVICE ORIENTED ARCHITECTURE (SOA); TEXTILE PROCESSING;

PHYSIOLOGICAL MODELS;

EID: 77953517377     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-12654-3_19     Document Type: Conference Paper

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