Smartphone-based applications for investigating falls and mobility

Author

Tacconi, Carlo ; Mellone, Sabato ; Chiari, Lorenzo

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron., Comput. Sci. & Syst., Univ. of Bologna, Bologna, Italy

fYear

2011

Firstpage

258

Lastpage

261

Abstract

The aim of this study is to develop a system for investigating human falls and mobility based on a Smartphone platform. We have designed and tested a set of software applications building on the inertial data captured from the tri-axial accelerometer sensor embedded in the Smartphone. We will describe here two applications: a fall detection and management application, and an application for the administration of a popular and standardized test in the field of human mobility assessment, namely the Timed-Up-and-Go test.

Keywords

accelerometers; geriatrics; mobile handsets; sensors; fall detection; human fall investigation; human mobility assessment; human mobility investigation; inertial data; management application; smartphone-based applications; timed-up-and-go test; tri-axial accelerometer sensor; Accelerometers; Algorithm design and analysis; Instruments; Mobile handsets; Monitoring; Performance evaluation; Sensors; Android; Smartphone application; Timed-Up-and-Go test; elderly oriented application; fall detection; fall risk assessment;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare (PervasiveHealth), 2011 5th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Dublin

Print_ISBN

978-1-61284-767-2

Type

conf

Filename

6038808