Implementation of an iPhone as a wireless accelerometer for quantifying gait characteristics

2010 Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBC'10

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 3847-3851

  LeMoyne, Robert ^a   Mastroianni, Timothy ^b   Cozza, Michael ^c   Coroian, Cristian ^d   Grundfest, Warren ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Founder of Cognition Engineering   (United States)

^c Converge Robotics Corporation ^*  (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Gait; Gait quantification; IPhone; IPhone application; Locomotion; Wireless accelerometer

Indexed keywords

GAIT; GAIT QUANTIFICATION; IPHONE; IPHONE APPLICATION; LOCOMOTION; WIRELESS ACCELEROMETER;

ACCELEROMETERS;

ACCELERATION; ARTICLE; GAIT; HUMAN; MOBILE PHONE;

ACCELERATION; CELLULAR PHONE; GAIT; HUMANS;

EID: 78650836422     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IEMBS.2010.5627699     Document Type: Conference Paper

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