Wearable assistant for load monitoring: Recognition of on-body load placement from gait alterations

2010 4th International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare, Pervasive Health 2010

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages

  Benocci, Marco ^a   Bächlin, Marc ^b   Farella, Elisabetta ^a   Roggen, Daniel ^b   Benini, Luca ^a   Tröster, Gerhard ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Accelerometer; Back pain; Gait; Load carriage; Wearable assistant

Indexed keywords

BACK PAIN; BODY WEIGHT; CLASSIFIER TRAINING; CONTEXTUAL INFORMATION; CORONAL PLANES; CRITICAL CONDITION; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITIES; LOAD CARRIAGE; LOAD MONITORING; ON-BODY; PERFORMANCE EVALUATION; RECOGNITION ACCURACY; RIGHT AND LEFT; SENSORS PLACEMENT; SINGLE USERS; SVM CLASSIFIERS; WALKING TASKS; WEARABLE ASSISTANT;

ACCELEROMETERS; CLASSIFIERS; SERVICE ORIENTED ARCHITECTURE (SOA); WALKING AIDS;

HEALTH;

EID: 77954404998     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.4108/ICST.PERVASIVEHEALTH2010.8894     Document Type: Conference Paper

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