Real-time elderly activity monitoring system based on a tri-axial accelerometer

i-CREATe 2008 - International Convention on Rehabilitation Engineering and Assistive Technology 2008

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 262-265

  Kang, D W ^a   Choi, J S ^a   Tack, G R ^a   Lee, B S ^a   Lee, J W ^a   Chung, S C ^a   Park, S J ^b  

^a Konkuk University   (South Korea)

^b Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI)   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Accelerometer; Activity of daily living; Algorithm; Classification

Indexed keywords

ACTIVITY MONITORING SYSTEM; ACTIVITY OF DAILY LIVING; ACTUAL EXPERIMENTS; CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM; DAILY ACTIVITY; DETAILED CLASSIFICATION; HEALTHY SUBJECTS; HUMAN MOVEMENTS; SENSOR MODULES; SIT-TO-STAND; TRIAXIAL ACCELEROMETER;

ACCELEROMETERS; ALGORITHMS; CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); EXPERIMENTS;

WALKING AIDS;

EID: 82455174919     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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