Smartphone based fall prevention exercises

2013 IEEE 15th International Conference on e-Health Networking, Applications and Services, Healthcom 2013

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 643-647

  Ferreira, Bruno Neves ^a   Guimaraes, Vania ^a   Ferreira, Hugo Sereno ^b  

^a Fraunhofer Portugal Research Center for Assistive Information and Communication Solutions FhP AICOS   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Android; Exercises; Fall prevention; Falls; Inertial Sensors; Older People; Smartphone

Indexed keywords

EID: 84894114163     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/HealthCom.2013.6720755     Document Type: Conference Paper

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