Skeleton Timed Up and Go

Author

Lohmann, Okko ; Luhmann, Thomas ; Hein, Andreas

Author_Institution

OFFIS - Inst. for Inf. Technol., Oldenburg, Germany

fYear

2012

fDate

4-7 Oct. 2012

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

5

Abstract

This paper presents a novel approach to fully automate the Timed Up and Go Assessment Test (TUG) in professional environments. The approach, called Skeleton Timed Up and Go (sTUG), is based on the usage of two Kinect for Xbox 360 sensors. sTUG supports the execution and documentation of the traditional TUG assessment test and furthermore calculates nine events, which demarcate the five main components during a run. On two days we conducted an experiment with five elderly aged 70-84 and four males aged 29-31 in the activity laboratory of the OFFIS Institute, Oldenburg to proof the reliability and feasibility of the system. Results demonstrate that sTUG can precisely measure the total duration of traditional TUG and is capable of detecting accurately nine motion events which demarcate the components during a run.

Keywords

biomedical measurement; bone; medical computing; orthopaedics; Kinect sensors; Xbox sensors; motion events; reliability; skeleton timed up-go; timed up-go assessment test; traditional TUG; traditional TUG assessment test; Acceleration; Joints; Legged locomotion; Reliability; Senior citizens; Sensors; Turning; Assessment; Mobility; Sensor Fusion; Timed Up and Go (TUG); sTUG;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Bioinformatics and Biomedicine (BIBM), 2012 IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Philadelphia, PA

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-2559-2

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4673-2558-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/BIBM.2012.6392610

Filename

6392610