Active assistance for senior healthcare: A wearable system for fall detection

Iberian Conference on Information Systems and Technologies, CISTI

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages

  Terroso, Miguel ^a   Freitas, Ricardo ^a   Gabriel, Joaquim ^b   Marques, Antonio Torres ^b   Simoes, Ricardo ^a,c  

^a Instituto Politcnico do Cvado e do Ave   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MINHO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Ambient Assisted Living; Fall detection; Healthcare; Wearable devices

Indexed keywords

AMBIENT ASSISTED LIVING; COORDINATION ABILITY; FALL DETECTION; HOLISTIC PERSPECTIVES; MULTIPLE COMPONENTS; PHYSICAL PROTECTION; TEMPERATURE AND HUMIDITY SENSOR; WEARABLE DEVICES;

AUDITION; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; SENSORS; SIGNAL ENCODING; SMARTPHONES; WEARABLE COMPUTERS; WEBSITES;

HEALTH CARE;

EID: 84887864074     PISSN: 21660727     EISSN: 21660735     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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