Context-aware fall detection using a Bayesian network

ACM International Conference Proceeding Series

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 10-16

  Zhang, Mi ^a   Sawchuk, Alexander A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Design; Experimentation; Performance

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN MODEL; CONTEXT INFORMATION; CONTEXT-AWARE; CONTEXTUAL INFORMATION; ELDERLY PEOPLE; EXPERIMENTATION; FALL DETECTION; FALSE NEGATIVES; FALSE POSITIVE RATES; HEART RATES; HUMAN ACTIVITY RECOGNITION; PERFORMANCE; PERSONAL HEALTH; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY LEVELS; PHYSIOLOGICAL MEASUREMENT; SENSOR READINGS;

BLOOD PRESSURE; DESIGN; HEALTH; SEMANTICS; UBIQUITOUS COMPUTING;

BAYESIAN NETWORKS;

EID: 80053647101     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2036146.2036149     Document Type: Conference Paper

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