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Preliminary study on activity monitoring using an android smart-watch

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Ahanathapillai, Vijayalakshmi, Amor, James D., James, Christopher J. and Goodwin, Zoe (2015) Preliminary study on activity monitoring using an android smart-watch. Healthcare Technology Letters, 2 (1). pp. 34-39. doi:10.1049/htl.2014.0091

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Abstract

The global trend for increasing life expectancy is resulting in aging populations in a number of countries. This brings to bear a pressure to provide effective care for the older population with increasing constraints on available resources. Providing care for and maintaining the independence of an older person in their own home is one way that this problem can be addressed. The EU Funded Unobtrusive Smart Environments for Independent Living (USEFIL) project is an assistive technology tool being developed to enhance independent living. As part of USEFIL, a wrist wearable unit (WWU) is being developed to monitor the physical activity (PA) of the user and integrate with the USEFIL system. The WWU is a novel application of an existing technology to the assisted living problem domain. It combines existing technologies and new algorithms to extract PA parameters for activity monitoring. The parameters that are extracted include: activity level, step count and worn state. The WWU, the algorithms that have been developed and a preliminary validation are presented. The results show that activity level can be successfully extracted, that worn state can be correctly identified and that step counts in walking data can be estimated within 3% error, using the controlled dataset.

Item Type: Journal Article
Subjects: H Social Sciences > HQ The family. Marriage. Woman
R Medicine > RA Public aspects of medicine
Divisions: Faculty of Science > Engineering
Faculty of Science > WMG (Formerly the Warwick Manufacturing Group)
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): Older people -- Home care, Medical telematics, Population aging
Journal or Publication Title: Healthcare Technology Letters
Publisher: The Institution of Engineering and Technology
ISSN: 2053-3713
Official Date: 25 February 2015
Dates:
DateEvent
25 February 2015Published
20 January 2015Accepted
14 October 2014Submitted
Volume: 2
Number: 1
Page Range: pp. 34-39
DOI: 10.1049/htl.2014.0091
Status: Peer Reviewed
Publication Status: Published
Access rights to Published version: Open Access
Funder: Seventh Framework Programme (European Commission) (FP7)
Grant number: Grant agreement no: 288532
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