Title :
Activity Recognition Using Wearable Sensors for Elder Care
Author :
Hong, Yu-Jin ; Kim, Ig-Jae ; Ahn, Sang Chul ; Kim, Hyoung-Gon
Author_Institution :
Imaging Media Res. Center, Korea Inst. of Sci. & Technol., Seoul, South Korea
Abstract :
We propose a novel method to recognize a user¿s activities of daily living with accelerometers and RFID sensor. Two wireless accelerometers are used for the classification of 5 human body states using decision tree, and detection of RFID tagged objects with hand movement provides additional object related hand motion information. To do this, we used Bluetooth based wireless triaxial accelerometers and iGrabber which is a glove type RFID reader. Our experiments show that our method can be applicable to a real environment with strong confidence.
Keywords :
Bluetooth; accelerometers; biomechanics; biomedical equipment; decision trees; geriatrics; health care; image motion analysis; medical image processing; mobile handsets; object recognition; radiofrequency identification; Bluetooth; RFID sensor; RFID tagged objects; accelerometers; activity recognition; decision tree; elder care; glove type RFID reader; hand movement; human body states; iGrabber; mobile phone environment; object detection; object related hand motion information; wearable sensors; wireless accelerometers; wireless triaxial accelerometers; Accelerometers; Classification tree analysis; Decision trees; Humans; Motion detection; Object detection; RFID tags; Radiofrequency identification; Wearable sensors; Wireless sensor networks; Accelerometer; Activity; Elder; RFID;
Conference_Titel :
Future Generation Communication and Networking, 2008. FGCN '08. Second International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Hainan Island
Print_ISBN :
978-0-7695-3431-2
DOI :
10.1109/FGCN.2008.165