ECushion: A textile pressure sensor array design and calibration for sitting posture analysis

IEEE Sensors Journal

Volumn 13, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 3926-3934

  Xu, Wenyao ^a   Huang, Ming Chun ^b   Amini, Navid ^b   He, Lei ^b   Sarrafzadeh, Majid ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^b Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

calibration; cushion; non invasive; pressure sensor; sitting posture; Textile

Indexed keywords

CUSHION; DATA REPRESENTATIONS; DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATIONS; ELECTRICAL CHARACTERISTIC; NON-INVASIVE; SENSOR CALIBRATION; SITTING POSTURE; TEXTILE SENSORS;

CALIBRATION; PRESSURE SENSORS; SENSORS; TEXTILES; WEARABLE COMPUTERS;

PRODUCT DESIGN;

EID: 84883778014     PISSN: 1530437X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSEN.2013.2259589     Document Type: Article

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