NDLI: Initial home-based foot-mat design & analysis of bio-gait characteristics to prevent fall in elderly people

Content Provider	IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Author	Low, K.H. Tani, J.W. Chandra, T. Ping Wang
Copyright Year	2009
Description	Author affiliation: School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering of the Nanyang Technological University, Singapore 639798 (Low, K.H.; Tani, J.W.; Chandra, T.; Ping Wang)
Abstract	Falls are among the most frequent occasions happening on elderly. Moreover, falls can cause fatal effect on them. One of the issues related to elderly health, which can incur falls, is the gait characteristics. Thus, it will be useful to set up a monitoring system for home-use to detect the gait characteristics of the elderly. With this daily monitoring system, the changes in gait characteristics, which are leading to proneness of falls and hardly being distinguished by naked-eyes, can be noticed. The reliability of the home-system was also verified with a comparison to Gaitrite. Finally, modeling experiments shows the effectiveness of the monitoring system. In conclusion, a home-system having reasonable price can be produced and is able to provide daily non-intrusive monitoring.
Starting Page	759
Ending Page	764
File Size	393455
Page Count	6
File Format	PDF
ISBN	9781424447749
DOI	10.1109/ROBIO.2009.5420577
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2009-12-19
Publisher Place	China
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Senior citizens Monitoring Hospitals Medical services Cardiac disease Cardiovascular diseases Aerospace engineering Force feedback Robots Biomimetics Monitoring system Slips and falls Gait Aging Foot-mat
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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