Development of a Wearable Sensor System for Monitoring Static and Dynamic Posture together with Walking Speed for Use in Rehabilitation

Lee

International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction

2009

Smart clothing is a "smart system" capable of sensing and communicating with environmental and the wearer's conditions and stimuli. A comprehensive review is presented on the research and developments related to smart clothing including technology developments, human aspects in smart clothing, and the applications. Recent smart clothing technology can be summarized as a tendency toward textilebased technology for each component: interface, communication, data management, energy management, and integrated circuits. Human aspects in smart clothing, even though some areas were not fully covered, were dealt with in terms of usability, functionality, durability, safety, comfort, and fashion. General applications of smart clothing developed so far include bio-monitoring clothing, MP3 player-adopted clothing, and photonic clothing.

Section: Body Movementmentioning

confidence: 99%

Review and Reappraisal of Smart Clothing

Lee

International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction

2009

“…Measuring human movements is important before rehabilitation, training or exercises can start. Motion capture systems that use cameras, accelerometers, and flexible electrogoniometers have been studied extensively [ 1 – 5 ]. Although motion capture systems are capable of accurate measurements, they are inconvenient to use.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

A Textile-Based Wearable Sensing Device Designed for Monitoring the Flexion Angle of Elbow and Knee Movements

Shyr

Shie

Jiang

et al. 2014

Sensors

Abstract:In this work a wearable gesture sensing device consisting of a textile strain sensor, using elastic conductive webbing, was designed for monitoring the flexion angle of elbow and knee movements. The elastic conductive webbing shows a linear response of resistance to the flexion angle. The wearable gesture sensing device was calibrated and then the flexion angle-resistance equation was established using an assembled gesture sensing apparatus with a variable resistor and a protractor. The proposed device successfully monitored the flexion angle during elbow and knee movements.

“…Continuously and precisely measuring human postures and movements is critical to the monitoring of diverse human activities. Therefore, many studies investigate, the measurement of human motions with cameras or accelerometers [1,2,3] since the 1990's. Nowadays, many researchers use conductive fibers and yarns to develop motion sensors.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Establishing a Measurement System for Human Motions Using a Textile-Based Motion Sensor

Sung

Jeong

Human-Computer Interaction. Ambient, Ubiquitous and Intelligent Interaction

2009

We developed a human motion measurement system using textilebased motion sensors whose electrical resistance changes with textile length. Eight body locations were marked and used for measurement, based on previous studies investigating the relationship between human muscles and activities. Five male subjects participated to the experiment, walking and running while the electrical resistance of each sensor was measured. Measuring and analyzing the variations in the electrical resistances of our sensors allowed us to successfully evaluate body postures and motions.