Evaluation of an inexpensive depth camera for passive in-home fall risk assessment

2011 5th International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare and Workshops, PervasiveHealth 2011

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 71-77

  Stone, Erik E ^a   Skubic, Marjorie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DAILY ACTIVITY; DEPTH CAMERA; GAIT PARAMETERS; GROUND TRUTH; HOME ENVIRONMENT; MICROSOFT; MOTION CAPTURE SYSTEM; OLDER ADULTS; WEARABLE DEVICES;

CAMERAS; HEALTH CARE; RATING; UBIQUITOUS COMPUTING; USER INTERFACES;

RISK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 80054924316     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.4108/icst.pervasivehealth.2011.246034     Document Type: Conference Paper

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