Wearable sensors in ecological rehabilitation environments

Gina Sprint, Vladimir Borisov, Diane Cook, Douglas Weeks

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Abstract

Rehabilitation after injury or stroke is a long process towards regaining function, mobility, and independence. Changes exhibited in these areas tend to be subtle and highly dependent on the patient, their injury, and the intensity of rehabilitation efforts. Toprovide a fine-grained assessment of patient progress, we undertook a study to quantitatively capture movements during inpatient rehabilitation. We utilized wearable inertial sensors to collect data rom participants receiving therapy services at an inpatient rehabilitation facility. Participant performance was recorded in an ecological environment on a sequence of ambulatory tasks. A custom software system was developed to process sensor signals and compute metrics describing ambulation. A comparison of metrics one week apart suggests quantifiable changes in movement.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationUbiComp 2014 - Adjunct Proceedings of the 2014 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing
PublisherAssociation for Computing Machinery, Inc
Pages163-166
Number of pages4
ISBN (Electronic)9781450330473
DOIs
StatePublished - 2014
Event2014 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing, UbiComp 2014 - Seattle, United States
Duration: Sep 13 2014Sep 17 2014

Publication series

NameUbiComp 2014 - Adjunct Proceedings of the 2014 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing

Conference

Conference2014 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing, UbiComp 2014
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CitySeattle
Period09/13/1409/17/14

Keywords

  • Accelerometer
  • Gait analysis
  • Inertial measurement unit
  • Rehabilitation
  • Wearable sensors

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