Title :
FASH: Detecting tiredness of elders
Author :
Yonekawa, K. ; Yonezawa, T. ; Nakazawa, J. ; Tokuda, H.
Author_Institution :
Fac. of Environ. & Inf. Studies, Keio Univ., Yokohama, Japan
Abstract :
This paper proposes fatigue alerting shoes(FASH), a pair of shoes which prevents walking elders from falling accidents. Fatigue is one of the causes of elders encountering falling accidents, thus, FASH detects fatigue of walking people. FASH embeds pressure sensor in shoes to detects tiredness of walking people, and prevent falling accidents by alerting them.
Keywords :
accident prevention; footwear; gait analysis; geriatrics; handicapped aids; pressure sensors; falling accidents; fatigue; fatigue alerting shoes; pressure sensor; tiredness detection; walking elders; Accidents; Bones; Data analysis; Fatigue; Foot; Footwear; Leg; Legged locomotion; Muscles; ZigBee; Elder; Fatigue Detection; NUTS; Pressure Sensor; Ubiquitous;
Conference_Titel :
Networked Sensing Systems (INSS), 2009 Sixth International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Pittsburgh, PA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-6313-8
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-6314-5
DOI :
10.1109/INSS.2009.5409908
