Future care floor: A sensitive floor for movement monitoring and fall detection in home environments

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

Volumn 55 LNICST, Issue , 2011, Pages 211-218

  Klack, Lars ^a   Möllering, Christian ^a   Ziefle, Martina ^a   Schmitz Rode, Thomas ^a  

^a RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

fall detection; living lab; pattern recognition; position monitoring; sensor floor

Indexed keywords

AMBIENT ASSISTED LIVING; BEHAVIORAL PATTERNS; EHEALTH; EUROPEAN NETWORKS; FALL DETECTION; HOME ENVIRONMENT; LIVING LAB; POSITION MONITORING; TEST ENVIRONMENT; USER CENTERED DESIGNS;

HEALTH CARE; LABORATORIES; MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; PATTERN RECOGNITION; RESEARCH; SENSORS;

FLOORS;

EID: 84885884788     PISSN: 18678211     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-20865-2_27     Document Type: Conference Paper

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