Visualizing physiological condition of two persons during cooperative motion

Author

Matsukawa, Tsuyoshi ; Yokoyama, Kiyoko

Author_Institution

Graduate School of Design and Architecture, Nagoya City University, 2-1-10 Kitachikusa, Chikusa, Aichi, 464-0083, JAPAN

fYear

2008

fDate

20-25 Aug. 2008

Firstpage

5176

Lastpage

5179

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to develop a visualizing system which represents human motion and physiological conditions such as muscle activities, autonomic nervous balances of multi persons simultaneously. Our system generates avatar animation representing muscle activity and heart rate variability of multi persons by color of muscles and heart. Three kinds of assistance motion were visualized to evaluate our system. In these experiments, muscle activity and heart rate variability of assisted and service persons were represented. Physiological conditions of multi persons are presented intuitively using this system. This visualizing system is useful for analysis of workload in cooperative motion.

Keywords

Animation; Avatars; Collaborative work; Electrocardiography; Hardware; Heart rate variability; Humans; Motion analysis; Muscles; Visualization; Computer Graphics; Computer Simulation; Cooperative Behavior; Electromyography; Heart Rate; Humans; Models, Biological; Movement; Muscle Contraction; User-Computer Interface;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 2008. EMBS 2008. 30th Annual International Conference of the IEEE

Conference_Location

Vancouver, BC

ISSN

1557-170X

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-1814-5

Electronic_ISBN

1557-170X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IEMBS.2008.4650380

Filename

4650380