Monitoring body kinematics and gesture through sensing fabrics

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: Bio-monitoringmentioning

confidence: 99%

Review and Reappraisal of Smart Clothing

Lee

International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction

2009

Prosthetics &Amp; Orthotics International

“…It gives a linearly increasing asymptotic resistance when it is stretched, up to almost maximum stretch (Farringdon et al 1999). De Rossi et al (2000) developed a minimally intrusive wearable system consisting of a Lycra leotard with conductive polymer strain sensors chemically deposited in selected areas. A wet process included in the direct deposition of polypyrrole layers onto fibres with a mask based procedure for appropriate patterning of the sensorized areas.…”

Section: Sensing Fabricmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…De Rossi et al (2000) used up to 20 sensors which were deposited onto fabrics by using a wet process. Each appropriate set of sensors was mapped in different parts of body such as vertebral column, scapular segment, gleno-humeral and elbow joints to detect posture and movement of the trunk.…”

Section: Posture and Trunk Movement Analysismentioning

confidence: 99%

Clinical Applications of Sensors for Human Posture and Movement Analysis

Wong¹,

Wong²,

Lo³

2007

164

102

Measurement of human posture and movement is an important area of research in the bioengineering and rehabilitation fields. Various attempts have been initiated for different clinical application goals, such as diagnosis of pathological posture and movements, assessment of pre-and post-treatment efficacy and comparison of different treatment protocols. Image-based methods for measurements of human posture and movements have been developed, such as the photogrammetry, optoelectric technique and video analysis. However, it is found that these methods are complicated to set up, time-consuming to operate and could only be applied in laboratory environments. Electronic sensors and systems with advanced technology, namely accelerometer, gyroscope, flexible angular sensor, electromagnetic tracking system and sensing fabrics, have been developed and applied to solve the relevant application problems of the image-based methods. Nonetheless, other problems for using these electronic sensors emerged, including the environment influence and signal extraction difficulties. Further development of these electronic sensors and measurement methods could enhance their clinical applications in institutional as well as community levels. This article reviews the possible applications of these electronic sensors and systems, and precautions of their applications in analysis of human posture and movement. Such information would help researchers and clinicians in selecting and developing the most appropriate measurement techniques of using the electronic sensors for clinical applications of human posture and movement analysis.

2013 35th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC)

“…One of the benefits of the wearable medical devices is that they are noninvasive and hence have minimal risk of infection. Wearable devices have been developed for recording human kinematics and posture by using sensing fabrics [2]. Monitoring of human kinematics and analyzing posture is of importance in the field of bioengineering.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

An approach to analyze the movements of the arms while walking using wearable wireless devices

Chandra

Johansson

2013

Abstract-Rhythmic movement of the arms while walking is an important feature of human gait. In this paper, we present an approach to analyze the movements of the arms while walking by using three wearable wireless devices placed around the torso. One of the devices is transmitter placed at the back and the other two are symmetrically placed receivers that record the power variation due to movements of the arms while walking. We show that the power received by the receivers will have symmetrical variation if the arms' swing is symmetrical. An analytical model has been used to calculate the position of the receivers. Full wave simulations on a walking phantom are done to confirm the results.