Accurate, fast fall detection using posture and context information

SenSys'08 - Proceedings of the 6th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 443-444

  Li, Qiang ^a   Zhou, Gang ^b   Stankovic, John A ^a  

^a University of Virginia   (United States)

^b William and Mary   (United States)

Author keywords

body sensor networks; personal monitoring

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATION ANALYSIS; COMPUTATIONAL COSTS; CONTEXT INFORMATION; FALL DETECTION; FALSE POSITIVE; FAST RESPONSE; PERSONAL MONITORING;

BODY SENSOR NETWORKS; SEMANTICS; SENSORS;

EMBEDDED SYSTEMS;

EID: 79961213086     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1460412.1460494     Document Type: Conference Paper

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