A Wireless Sensors Based Feedback System for Human Body Movement Practices

Dance training and feedback system using wearable wireless sensors.

“…W ith the advent of affordable and applicable sensory systems such as inertial, gyroscope, and pressure sensor-based training systems have been developed. In such systems, the motion was captured by the sensor, analyzed by the system, and provided the minimal feedback [1,[9][10][11][12]. As feedback is the most im portant component of any training system, there is still room for developing systems that can provide clear, elaborate, and meaningful feedback.…”

“…We enhanced the generic architectural framework for motion practices [1], to be specifically applicable to dance training systems. The main enhancements are:…”

“…There are body motion-based commercial products such as games, which offer combinations of audio, video, and textual feedback. [1,7,13,15,18,23]. Inertial sensors have also been used to study the motion recognition for equipment operation (39], motion detection of human upper limbs [40], walking motion [41], gait training [42], rehabilitation [25], etc.…”

“…In this thesis, an architectural framework of generic body movement training sys tem, proposed in [1], is tuned and expanded to develop a dance training and feed back system. The proposed feedback system and its prototype implementation is the main contributions of this thesis.…”

“…In an effort to answer mar jority of these, we have designed a sensor network based dance training and feedback system based on the generic framework proposed in [1]. Using this training and feed back system, we believe th at the above questions can be systematically investigated.…”