{"title":"Investigating the feasibility of a wireless motion capture system to aid in the rehabilitation of total knee replacement patients","authors":"M. Ayoade, L. Morton, L. Baillie","doi":"10.4108/ICST.PERVASIVEHEALTH.2011.246132","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4108/ICST.PERVASIVEHEALTH.2011.246132","url":null,"abstract":"Currently, patients are discharged to their homes after successful total knee replacement (TKR) surgery with a standard exercise booklet that contains instructions on how to carry out home exercises. This paper investigates the feasibility of building a low cost inertial motion capture system to provide patients with real time visualization of biomechanical data while performing home based rehabilitation exercises. Commercially available motion capture systems suitable for clinical diagnosis or rehabilitation, such as Vicon are expensive, require professionals to setup and have complex calibration procedures. The accuracy of our proposed motion capture system is assessed using a Vicon optical motion tracking system The measurements are compared using a simple total angular displacement analysis.","PeriodicalId":444978,"journal":{"name":"2011 5th International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare (PervasiveHealth) and Workshops","volume":"42 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-05-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134314558","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":"Capturing patients' daily life experiences after Total Hip Replacement","authors":"Juan C. Jiménez, N. R. Herrera, D. Keyson","doi":"10.4108/ICST.PERVASIVEHEALTH.2011.246022","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4108/ICST.PERVASIVEHEALTH.2011.246022","url":null,"abstract":"Context-aware technology in the home environment can provide an effective mechanism in supporting the wellbeing and autonomy of the elderly challenged by chronic diseases and physical impairments, such as osteoarthritis. Total Hip Replacement (THR) is the most common procedure to relieve both pain and functional disability experienced by elderly patients suffering from end-stage osteoarthritis, thereby improving their quality of life. The paradigm shift in healthcare on shortening in-hospital care has created an atmosphere of misinformation for both the patient and the medical staff about individual patterns of recovery, creating uncertainty about patients' recovery outcomes. This paper presents work on applying User Centred Design methods (UCD) to inform the design of a qualitative measure which will be used as a means to reduce the lack of information around the patient. The described design process elicits functional system requirements, and guides the design of a qualitative measure based on Experience Sampling Method (ESM). The ESM tool will be used to improve and expand the understanding of elderly patient's living experiences after discharge.","PeriodicalId":444978,"journal":{"name":"2011 5th International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare (PervasiveHealth) and Workshops","volume":"20 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-05-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132318615","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":"Improving independence in the community for stroke survivors: The role of biomechanics visualisation in ankle-foot orthosis tuning","authors":"B. Carse, R. Bowers, B. Meadows, P. Rowe","doi":"10.4108/ICST.PERVASIVEHEALTH.2011.246128","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4108/ICST.PERVASIVEHEALTH.2011.246128","url":null,"abstract":"One of the key priorities for stroke survivors in their rehabilitation process is regaining their ability to walk. Evidence has shown that provision of ankle-foot orthoses (AFOs) can have a positive impact on walking. This paper discusses the role of gait analysis in the provision of AFOs for stroke survivors. A discussion of the shortcomings of gait analysis techniques is included, with a description of how these might be overcome during the AFO tuning process through the ongoing development of data visualisation software. The design of a randomised controlled trial in conjunction with a series of qualitative measures is described, which will be used to test the efficacy of the visualisation software.","PeriodicalId":444978,"journal":{"name":"2011 5th International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare (PervasiveHealth) and Workshops","volume":"24 4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-05-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133569181","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":"Smartphone-based applications for investigating falls and mobility","authors":"C. Tacconi, S. Mellone, L. Chiari","doi":"10.4108/ICST.PERVASIVEHEALTH.2011.246060","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4108/ICST.PERVASIVEHEALTH.2011.246060","url":null,"abstract":"The aim of this study is to develop a system for investigating human falls and mobility based on a Smartphone platform. We have designed and tested a set of software applications building on the inertial data captured from the tri-axial accelerometer sensor embedded in the Smartphone. We will describe here two applications: a fall detection and management application, and an application for the administration of a popular and standardized test in the field of human mobility assessment, namely the Timed-Up-and-Go test.","PeriodicalId":444978,"journal":{"name":"2011 5th International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare (PervasiveHealth) and Workshops","volume":"48 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-05-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132707125","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":"Designing a telecare product for the elderly","authors":"Obinna Onyimadu, Fraser Harding, J. Briggs","doi":"10.4108/ICST.PERVASIVEHEALTH.2011.246118","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4108/ICST.PERVASIVEHEALTH.2011.246118","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we describe our experience of designing a telecare product for the elderly. This is a collaborative project involving Passivsystems Ltd and the Centre for Healthcare Modelling and Informatics at the University of Portsmouth. The research aims at adapting Passivsystems' existing in-home hub so that it is capable of providing a telecare service in addition to its energy management service. Our work focuses on designing a user centred product around the recipient's Activities of Daily Living (ADL). We describe our research over 10 months comprising a description of our product model and the motivations behind the adopted model.","PeriodicalId":444978,"journal":{"name":"2011 5th International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare (PervasiveHealth) and Workshops","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-05-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131770868","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":"Ambient assessment of daily activity and gait velocity","authors":"L. Walsh, B. Greene, Adrian Burns, C. N. Scanaill","doi":"10.4108/ICST.PERVASIVEHEALTH.2011.246077","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4108/ICST.PERVASIVEHEALTH.2011.246077","url":null,"abstract":"This paper describes novel ambient technologies for domestic gait velocity measurement and in-home daily activity monitoring. This was achieved through low cost, easily deployable passive infrared motion detectors and an unobtrusive wireless sensor network. This system was deployed in the houses of eight older adults (1 faller; 7 non-fallers) living independently over eight weeks. Inter-daily gait velocity and daily activity metrics were derived from this data set. Consistent daily rhythms were found, however no correlations to clinical or daily ethnographic data were found. Long-term data collection, particularly surrounding serious life events, would validate the ability of this system to highlight deviations in health status. This paper provides a framework for collecting, analysing and interpreting gait velocity and daily activity data.","PeriodicalId":444978,"journal":{"name":"2011 5th International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare (PervasiveHealth) and Workshops","volume":"22 13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-05-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134387510","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}
G. Postolache, P. Girão, Claudia Maia Moura, O. Postolache
{"title":"Rehabilitative TeleHealthCare for post-stroke outcome assessment","authors":"G. Postolache, P. Girão, Claudia Maia Moura, O. Postolache","doi":"10.4108/ICST.PERVASIVEHEALTH.2011.246141","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4108/ICST.PERVASIVEHEALTH.2011.246141","url":null,"abstract":"The article summarizes ongoing research on intelligent Tele-rehabilitation Assistants for in home rehabilitation of post stroke patients. The designed system is expressed by a set of smart sensors including a microwave FMCW Doppler radar that are connected to an embedded computing platform based on digital signal processor (DSP). This platform assures advanced data processing and wireless data transmission to a human machine interface (HMI) Android OS compatible device expressed by a tablet or by a smart phone as part of a health care intelligent ambient. The information from the health status and motor activity smart sensors is added to the patient localization given by a radar RFID device. Additionally, well-established neuron-rehabilitation instruments are used to evaluate the results obtained by the proposed architecture implemented in a ubiquitous and pervasive manner.","PeriodicalId":444978,"journal":{"name":"2011 5th International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare (PervasiveHealth) and Workshops","volume":"16 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-05-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124856349","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":"Mixed reality serious games for post-stroke rehabilitation","authors":"I. D. Loreto, Abdelkader Gouaïch, Nadia Hocine","doi":"10.4108/ICST.PERVASIVEHEALTH.2011.246102","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4108/ICST.PERVASIVEHEALTH.2011.246102","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper we propose a mixed reality system (MRS) and an adaptation module for rehabilitation of the upper limb after stroke through serious games. Aim of the system is to increase intensity and number of training session using the fun factor as driver. Although our system is targeting post stroke patient it is necessary to validate and test our approach with valid users at the first stage to provide patients with stable system to use. These studies and their results are described in this paper.","PeriodicalId":444978,"journal":{"name":"2011 5th International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare (PervasiveHealth) and Workshops","volume":"26 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-05-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127063125","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":"Motivate: Towards context-aware recommendation mobile system for healthy living","authors":"Yuzhong Lin, J. Jessurun, B. Vries, H. Timmermans","doi":"10.4108/ICST.PERVASIVEHEALTH.2011.246030","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4108/ICST.PERVASIVEHEALTH.2011.246030","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents the practices of a research aiming at the design of a context-aware recommendation system that promotes the adoption of a healthy and active lifestyle. A Smartphone application that provides personalized and contextualized advice on physical activities was developed. The goal of our endeavor is to find out whether this recommendation system can generate motivating advice at an appropriate time and location by taking environment, weather, user location and agenda into account. A small evaluation user study was conducted and the results show the feasibility of a real-time context-aware recommendation system on Smartphone.","PeriodicalId":444978,"journal":{"name":"2011 5th International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare (PervasiveHealth) and Workshops","volume":"37 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-05-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129943020","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}
D. Elbert, H. Storf, M. Eisenbarth, Özgür Ünalan, Mario Schmitt
{"title":"An approach for detecting deviations in daily routine for long-term behavior analysis","authors":"D. Elbert, H. Storf, M. Eisenbarth, Özgür Ünalan, Mario Schmitt","doi":"10.4108/ICST.PERVASIVEHEALTH.2011.246089","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4108/ICST.PERVASIVEHEALTH.2011.246089","url":null,"abstract":"Rendering and offering adequate reminder services in a situation-aware, proactive manner and providing information for diagnosis support is a major issue for Ambient Assisted Living systems when it comes to dealing with persons suffering from mild dementia. One great challenge therefore is to reliably recognize and assess the long-term behavior of assisted persons. In the context of diagnosis support for caregivers or practitioners, deviations in the daily routine of a person with mild dementia might be an indicator of a deterioration of the affected person's cognitive condition. Based on this information, adequate help can be provided. We developed an approach to processing information regarding the modeling of daily routines and a comparison to previous days. Our solution can be seen as a combination of three approaches: a cosinor analysis based on the theory of circadian rhythms as a special representative of regression analysis, a histogram-based approach based on movement data, and a probabilistic model of behavior (PMB) based on the person's activities of daily living (ADL).","PeriodicalId":444978,"journal":{"name":"2011 5th International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare (PervasiveHealth) and Workshops","volume":"110 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-05-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127976736","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}