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(2018) : Measurement of Elderly Daily Physical Activity by Unobtrusive Instrumented Shoes: MeMeA 2018 Rome: 2018 IEEE International Symposium on Medical Measurements & Applications : 2018 symposium proceedings : June 11-13, 2018: 2018 IEEE International Symposium on Medical Measurements and Applications (MeMeA): Rome: 6/11/2018 - 6/13/2018: Piscataway, NJ: IEEE, S. 1-5
Abstract: Sedentary behaviors in the elderly may have dramatic consequences on physical and mental health conditions, thus leading to increased needs for assistance, reduced autonomy, and higher social costs. In order to measure the degree of active behaviors performed by older adults during the day, it is important to design special measurement systems. Such systems need to be perceived as unobtrusive, easy to use and meaningful, as well as that do not require the subjects to change their daily routine, in such a way as to not hinder their compliance. Many of the wearable and not wearable systems already proposed in the literature, or available in the market as consumer devices, are not able to fully satisfy the specific requirements of older adults. In this paper, we present a novel force sensor instrumented shoe that can be used both indoor and outdoor, and that, by using simple sensing solutions, can measure the amount of time spent by the subject in a static or dynamic condition. Moreover, the shoe is able to transfer the measured data to a central unit for data processing and collection. A preliminary proof-of-concept has been conducted on young and elderly subjects, and results demonstrate the proposed system is able to correctly identify the user static/dynamic activity states. The reported solution seems to be promising and gives opportunities for improvements, as discussed in the paper.
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