Development and validation of a new method to measure walking speed in free-living environments using the actibelt® platform

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 8, 2011, Pages

  Schimpl, Michaela ^a,b   Lederer, Christian ^b   Daumer, Martin ^a,b  

^a TRIUM ANALYSIS ONLINE GMBH   (Germany)

^b Human Motion Institute   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCELEROMETER; ACCELEROMETRY; ADULT; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER PREDICTION; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEMALE; GOLD STANDARD; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PROBABILITY; PROCESS DESIGN; PROCESS DEVELOPMENT; RUNNING; STANDARDIZATION; VALIDATION STUDY; WALKING; WALKING AID; WALKING SPEED; ADOLESCENT; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSIOLOGY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; WALKING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79961162173     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0023080     Document Type: Article

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