J. C. van den Noort, Kees J van Dijk, H. Kortier, N. van Beek, R. Verhagen, L. Bour, P. Veltink
{"title":"Applications of the PowerGlove for Measurement of Finger Kinematics","authors":"J. C. van den Noort, Kees J van Dijk, H. Kortier, N. van Beek, R. Verhagen, L. Bour, P. Veltink","doi":"10.1109/BSN.WORKSHOPS.2014.19","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/BSN.WORKSHOPS.2014.19","url":null,"abstract":"Hand motor control is quite complex and measurement of hand kinematics is therefore of high interest in many fields. A new measurement system based on miniature inertial and magnetic sensors, the PowerGlove, has been developed. In the near future, the PowerGlove will be applied to study finger interdependency in healthy elderly and to objectively quantify hand motor symptoms in Parkinson's disease. To validate and test the feasibility of the PowerGlove for future application Validation experiments with an optoelectronic marker system and pilot experiments in young healthy subjects were performed, specifically focused on measurement of metacarpophalangeal joint flexion/extension (MCP), proximal interphalangeal joint flexion (PIP) and finger tapping. Mean root mean square (RMS) difference between the optoelectronic marker system and the PowerGlove was less than 5 degrees. The results from the pilot experiments showed the feasibility of the PowerGlove to quantify each finger and joint movement in different movement tasks that are of interest for application in aged subjects and Parkinson disease patients.","PeriodicalId":311910,"journal":{"name":"2014 11th International Conference on Wearable and Implantable Body Sensor Networks Workshops","volume":"3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-06-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131612636","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Flexible Wearable Sensor Network for Bio-Signals and Human Activity Monitoring","authors":"Ruben Dias, J. Machado da Silva","doi":"10.1109/BSN.WORKSHOPS.2014.20","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/BSN.WORKSHOPS.2014.20","url":null,"abstract":"The work presented herein addresses the development, implementation, and evaluation of a new wearable system for monitoring bio-signals and physical human activity, namely for gait analysis and cardiovascular surveillance. It consists of a wearable textile substrate (pantyhose and/or T-shirt) with embedded conductive yarns interconnecting custom electronic devices, in a mesh or other network type, that acquire bio-signals and/or inertial data. All data are aggregated in a central processing module from where they are sent via a wireless link to a mobile phone or personal computer for final processing. The network topology, sensor nodes architecture and results obtained with first prototypes are presented.","PeriodicalId":311910,"journal":{"name":"2014 11th International Conference on Wearable and Implantable Body Sensor Networks Workshops","volume":"24 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-06-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123551548","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Shahram Jalaliniya, Diako Mardanbeigi, Thomas Pederson, D. Hansen
{"title":"Head and Eye Movement as Pointing Modalities for Eyewear Computers","authors":"Shahram Jalaliniya, Diako Mardanbeigi, Thomas Pederson, D. Hansen","doi":"10.1109/BSN.WORKSHOPS.2014.14","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/BSN.WORKSHOPS.2014.14","url":null,"abstract":"While the new generation of eyewear computers have increased expectations of a wearable computer, providing input to these devices is still challenging. Hand-held devices, voice commands, and hand gestures have already been explored to provide input to the wearable devices. In this paper, we examined using head and eye movements to point on a graphical user interface of a wearable computer. The performance of users in head and eye pointing has been compared with mouse pointing as a baseline method. The result of our experiment showed that the eye pointing is significantly faster than head or mouse pointing, however, our participants thought that the head pointing is more accurate and convenient.","PeriodicalId":311910,"journal":{"name":"2014 11th International Conference on Wearable and Implantable Body Sensor Networks Workshops","volume":"39 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-06-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125129181","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
A. Bourke, F. Massé, A. Arami, K. Aminian, M. Healy, J. Nelson, C. O'Dwyer, S. Coote
{"title":"Energy Expenditure Estimation Using Accelerometry and Heart Rate for Multiple Sclerosis and Healthy Older Adults","authors":"A. Bourke, F. Massé, A. Arami, K. Aminian, M. Healy, J. Nelson, C. O'Dwyer, S. Coote","doi":"10.1109/BSN.WORKSHOPS.2014.18","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/BSN.WORKSHOPS.2014.18","url":null,"abstract":"Accurate estimation of Energy Expenditure (EE) in ambulatory settings provides greater insight into the underlying relation between different human physical activity and health. This paper describes the development and validation of energy expenditure estimation algorithms. A total of 4 healthy subjects and 3 suffering from multiple sclerosis were monitored using a gold-standard energy expenditure measurement system, a heart rate monitor and accelerometry. We demonstrated that greater improvements can be achieved by estimating energy expenditure during normal activities of daily living by combining both whole body acceleration estimates, vertical body acceleration estimates, body posture and heart rate data as part of a flex heart rate algorithm in subject specific models when compared to using accelerometry or heart rate data alone. This will allow more accurate EE estimation during normal activities of daily living.","PeriodicalId":311910,"journal":{"name":"2014 11th International Conference on Wearable and Implantable Body Sensor Networks Workshops","volume":"4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-06-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114934583","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
A. Kuusik, K. Gross-Paju, Heigo Maamâgi, E. Reilent
{"title":"Comparative Study of Four Instrumented Mobility Analysis Tests on Neurological Disease Patients","authors":"A. Kuusik, K. Gross-Paju, Heigo Maamâgi, E. Reilent","doi":"10.1109/BSN.WORKSHOPS.2014.13","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/BSN.WORKSHOPS.2014.13","url":null,"abstract":"Wearable inertial sensor systems are widely used for mobility analysis of neurological disease patients. Different assessment methodologies, including - Timed Up and Go, Sit and Stand, walking tests and different sensor configurations are used in practice. Sensor signal processing complexities of competing methods have not been thoroughly investigated. Apparently, computational robustness and noise insensitivity are the key parameters for instrumented mobility monitoring, when automated patient assessment is targeted. This paper describes results of comparisons of 4 different mobility assessment methods conducted on 35 multiple sclerosis patients with variable clinical disability scores. The results demonstrate high variability in inertial sensor signal patterns, even for patients with rather weak disability symptoms. Efficiency of widely used instrumented mobility analysis methodologies is discussed, concluding with the authors' proposals.","PeriodicalId":311910,"journal":{"name":"2014 11th International Conference on Wearable and Implantable Body Sensor Networks Workshops","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-06-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125338126","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
A. Bourke, A. Barré, B. Mariani, Christopher Moufawad El Achkar, A. Paraschiv-Ionescu, K. Aminian, B. Vereijken, Nina Skjaeret, J. Helbostad
{"title":"Design and Development of an Inertial Sensor Based Exergame for Recovery-Step Training","authors":"A. Bourke, A. Barré, B. Mariani, Christopher Moufawad El Achkar, A. Paraschiv-Ionescu, K. Aminian, B. Vereijken, Nina Skjaeret, J. Helbostad","doi":"10.1109/BSN.WORKSHOPS.2014.16","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/BSN.WORKSHOPS.2014.16","url":null,"abstract":"Through incorporating stepping movements into the game play of a VR based exergame, it is envisaged that older adults can reduce their fall-risk by training their balance recovery stepping movements in all directions. This type of exercise intervention thus presents a reliable structured way of reducing fall-risk. This paper explores the design of stepping based exergame from a taxonomy point of view and also addresses the main challenge in developing an entertaining exergame incorporating reliable real-time step detection.","PeriodicalId":311910,"journal":{"name":"2014 11th International Conference on Wearable and Implantable Body Sensor Networks Workshops","volume":"27 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-06-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121269631","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Conor O'Quigley, M. Sabourin, S. Coyle, J. Connolly, Joan Condall, K. Curran, B. Corcoran, D. Diamond
{"title":"Characteristics of a Piezo-Resistive Fabric Stretch Sensor Glove for Home-Monitoring of Rheumatoid Arthritis","authors":"Conor O'Quigley, M. Sabourin, S. Coyle, J. Connolly, Joan Condall, K. Curran, B. Corcoran, D. Diamond","doi":"10.1109/BSN.WORKSHOPS.2014.15","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/BSN.WORKSHOPS.2014.15","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents a potential connected health solution for home-monitoring of Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA) patients. About one percent of the world's population is affected by RA and to maintain their quality of life these people must perform exercises to maintain function in their joints. Home monitoring is a key tool in learning about the effects and treatments these diseases. This paper compares an in house developed sensor glove based on piezo-resistive fabrics with a motion capture VICON Nexus system. The results from these experiments deem the glove to be a suitable mode of measuring the hand movements while being cheap to manufacture. Wearable fabric sensors have potential to become more accessible than high spec camera systems and expensive commercially available motion capture gloves. They have the advantage of being low-cost and smart fabric sensors are more comfortable to wear compared to systems based on conventional metallic components.","PeriodicalId":311910,"journal":{"name":"2014 11th International Conference on Wearable and Implantable Body Sensor Networks Workshops","volume":"45 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-06-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131508031","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Matthias Wille, P. Scholl, S. Wischniewski, Kristof Van Laerhoven
{"title":"Comparing Google Glass with Tablet-PC as Guidance System for Assembling Tasks","authors":"Matthias Wille, P. Scholl, S. Wischniewski, Kristof Van Laerhoven","doi":"10.1109/BSN.WORKSHOPS.2014.11","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/BSN.WORKSHOPS.2014.11","url":null,"abstract":"Head mounted displays (HMDs) can be used as an guidance system for manual assembling tasks: contrary to using a Tablet-PC, instructions are always shown in the field of view while hands are kept free for the task. This is believed to be one of the major advantage of using HMDs. In the study reported here, performance, visual fatigue, and subjective strain was measured in a dual task paradigm. Participants were asked to follow a toy car assembly instructions while monitoring a virtual gauge. Both tasks had to be executed in parallel either while wearing Google Glass or using a Tablet-PC. Results show slower performance on the HMD but no difference in subjective strain.","PeriodicalId":311910,"journal":{"name":"2014 11th International Conference on Wearable and Implantable Body Sensor Networks Workshops","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-06-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116298729","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"User Interface Beaming -- Seamless Interaction with Smart Things Using Personal Wearable Computers","authors":"S. Mayer, G. Soros","doi":"10.1109/BSN.WORKSHOPS.2014.17","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/BSN.WORKSHOPS.2014.17","url":null,"abstract":"For the Internet of Things to be adopted in people's homes and at their workplaces, it is important to provide mechanisms that support them when controlling and monitoring smart things in their surroundings. We present the concept of user interface beaming, where the capabilities of different personal wearable computers are combined to allow users to conveniently interact with smart things in their environment. Smartglasses are used to select a target smart thing by means of current object recognition technologies. Then, an appropriate user interface for the target is rendered on the user's smartwatch. This interface is continuously updated to reflect state changes of the target and can be used to interact with that smart thing using different interaction modalities.","PeriodicalId":311910,"journal":{"name":"2014 11th International Conference on Wearable and Implantable Body Sensor Networks Workshops","volume":"51 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-06-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126567907","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Kaspar Leuenberger, R. Gonzenbach, E. Wiedmer, A. Luft, R. Gassert
{"title":"Classification of Stair Ascent and Descent in Stroke Patients","authors":"Kaspar Leuenberger, R. Gonzenbach, E. Wiedmer, A. Luft, R. Gassert","doi":"10.1109/BSN.WORKSHOPS.2014.10","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/BSN.WORKSHOPS.2014.10","url":null,"abstract":"Wearable sensor units are a promising technology to assess ambulatory activities such as level walking, stair ascent and descent in the home environment, shedding light into the recovery process and independence of stroke survivors. However, algorithms for the identification of ambulatory activities were optimized for healthy subjects, and show limitations when considering the reduced walking speed and altered gait patterns found in patients. We present a method to identify ambulatory phases and distinguish stair ascent and descent from level walking in daily activity recordings of stroke survivors. A realistic dataset was captured with inertial and barometric pressure sensors worn at 5 anatomical locations. Statistical and wavelet based acceleration features fed into a Support Vector Machine were used to identify walking phases, while a k-Nearest-Neighbor classifier was used to discriminate between level walking, stair ascent and descent based on barometric pressure and acceleration features. Combining data from multiple sensor modules resulted in walking classification sensitivities and specificities of up to 96%. Looking at sensor modules individually, the module placed at the nonparetic ankle showed the best performance, increasing sensitivity of walking identification by almost 10% compared to the module at the paretic ankle. Level walking was identified with 97% sensitivity and 91% specificity, stair ascent with 94% sensitivity and 99% specificity and stair descent with 87% sensitivity and 99% specificity in the multi-sensor setup. Again, sensor modules placed at the ankles displayed the best performance when looking at modules individually.","PeriodicalId":311910,"journal":{"name":"2014 11th International Conference on Wearable and Implantable Body Sensor Networks Workshops","volume":"33 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-06-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123287335","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}