DocumentCode
3421351
Title
FASH: Detecting tiredness of elders
Author
Yonekawa, K. ; Yonezawa, T. ; Nakazawa, J. ; Tokuda, H.
Author_Institution
Fac. of Environ. & Inf. Studies, Keio Univ., Yokohama, Japan
fYear
2009
fDate
17-19 June 2009
Firstpage
1
Lastpage
1
Abstract
This paper proposes fatigue alerting shoes(FASH), a pair of shoes which prevents walking elders from falling accidents. Fatigue is one of the causes of elders encountering falling accidents, thus, FASH detects fatigue of walking people. FASH embeds pressure sensor in shoes to detects tiredness of walking people, and prevent falling accidents by alerting them.
Keywords
accident prevention; footwear; gait analysis; geriatrics; handicapped aids; pressure sensors; falling accidents; fatigue; fatigue alerting shoes; pressure sensor; tiredness detection; walking elders; Accidents; Bones; Data analysis; Fatigue; Foot; Footwear; Leg; Legged locomotion; Muscles; ZigBee; Elder; Fatigue Detection; NUTS; Pressure Sensor; Ubiquitous;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Networked Sensing Systems (INSS), 2009 Sixth International Conference on
Conference_Location
Pittsburgh, PA
Print_ISBN
978-1-4244-6313-8
Electronic_ISBN
978-1-4244-6314-5
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/INSS.2009.5409908
Filename
5409908
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