Phone based fall risk prediction

Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social-Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering

Volumn 83 LNICST, Issue , 2012, Pages 135-142

  Guimarães, Vânia ^a   Teixeira, Pedro M ^a   Monteiro, Miguel P ^b   Elias, Dirk ^a  

^a FRAUNHOFER PORTUGAL AICOS   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Fall Prevention; Fall Risk Prediction; Gait analysis; Inertial Sensors; Older people; Smartphone

Indexed keywords

FALL PREVENTION; FALL RISK; HEALTH SERVICES; INERTIAL SENSOR; OLDER PEOPLE; PREDICTION ALGORITHMS; PREDICTION SYSTEMS; QUALITY OF LIFE; WORK IN PROGRESS;

ALGORITHMS; FORECASTING; GAIT ANALYSIS; HEALTH CARE; INERTIAL NAVIGATION SYSTEMS; TELEPHONE SETS; TELEPHONE SYSTEMS;

ACCIDENT PREVENTION;

EID: 84869594540     PISSN: 18678211     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-29734-2_19     Document Type: Conference Paper

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