A method with triaxial acceleration sensor for fall detection of the elderly in daily activities

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

Volumn 6767 LNCS, Issue PART 3, 2011, Pages 121-130

  Bao, Nan ^a,b   Feng, Cong ^a   Kang, Yan ^a,b   Xu, Lisheng ^a,b   Du, Yuhang ^a   Zhang, Lei ^a   Yang, Feifei ^a   Li, Qingchao ^a  

^a NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

3D Acceleration Sensor; Different Body Positions; Fall Detection; the Elderly; Wireless Detection Device

Indexed keywords

3-D ACCELERATION SENSOR; DIFFERENT BODY POSITIONS; FALL DETECTION; THE ELDERLY; WIRELESS DETECTION DEVICE;

HEALTH CARE; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT; SENSORS;

EQUIPMENT;

EID: 79960292557     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-21666-4_14     Document Type: Conference Paper

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