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Showing 1 to 20 of 38 for “"motion sensing"”.
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Maintaining privacy during continuous motion sensing
… which allow continuous recording of a user's motion allowing the development of activity, fitness and health applications. With varied applications, the motion sensors present new privacy problems which require protection. This dissertation builds on previous work with activity and fitness …
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Motion-Logger: An Attitude and Motion Sensing System
This thesis proposes a motion sensing system for wheelchairs with the main objective of determining tips, falls and risky situations. The system relies on measurements from an Inertial Measurement Unit, (IMU), consisting of a 3-axis accelerometer and a 2-axis gyroscope as the source of information. …
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iMOST: Intelligent Motion-Sensing Approaches for Tracking Emotion
… those members.The purpose of iMOST (Intelligent Motion-Sensing Approaches for Tracking Emotion) is to track the caretaker’s emotion in time by harnessing lightweight gait monitoring devices. In this thesis, we identified several tracking case scenarios for dementia patients and proposed a couple …
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A Validation of a Simulation Environment for Motion Sensing Electronic Textiles
… to be placed on or around the human body for motion sensing applications. In addition, the merging of textiles with electrical components, known as electronic textiles (e-textiles), allows for these sensors to be placed directly on a wearable fabric. Simulation allows for extensive application …
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"Hip-Hop... You Don't Stop" : Exploring Experiences of Pandemic Pedagogical Connection
… in a time of disconnection? The purpose of this Motion-Sensing Phenomenological study is to understand the interactive experiences of connection through Hip-Hop dance during the COVID-19 pandemic. Participants of this study were three Hip-Hop dance teachers who taught consistently, in-person or …
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Biped robot with a vestibular system
… This system incorporates the use of angular motion sensing of the robot segment that contains the linear accelerometers. This system was formulated based on human motion sensing and what probably is present in the human central nervous system for processing these signals.
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Exploring the Sensing Capability of Wireless Signals
… wireless signals for both communication and sensing. The capability of wireless sensing and the ubiquitous availability of wireless signals make it possible to meet the rising demand of pervasive environment perception. Physical layer features including signal attributes and channel state …
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Capacitive sensing with a fluorescent lamp
… lamp that can be used as a capacitive sensing system. The lamp sensor measures changes in the electric fields emitted from the fluorescent bulbs in order to deduce the presence and motion of conductive and dielectric objects below the lamp. The prototype lamp sensor demonstrated a …
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Spatial peripheral interaction techniques for viewing and manipulating off-screen digital content
… our spatial techniques using consumer-level motion sensing hardware. To enable a more detailed analysis of spatial interaction systems, we also developed a web-based visualization system, called SpatialVis, that visualizes log data over a video screen capture of the associated user interface.
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Raccoon Acclimation Towards Traps and its Effect on Surveillance and Monitoring of Zoonotic Diseases
… of raccoons is by using conventional methods, motion sensing cameras were placed on traps in order to captured raccoon behaviors. Pictures were coded based on these behaviors (around the trap but not entering, entering the trap but not being caught, captured, etc) and analyzed. The first …
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Effects of varying inertial load on human wrist movement
… wrist movements in human subjects, a magnetic motion sensing system was employed to document unimpeded motion. Three identical bottles of different weights were designed as handles to provide a wide range of inertial loads. Subjects executed a series of horizontal and vertical moves with each …
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Activity Recognition Processing in a Self-Contained Wearable System
… fashion. Many of the activity recognition and motion capture systems previously developed have several drawbacks and limitations with regard to their respective designs and implementations. Some such systems are often times expensive, not conducive to mass production, and may be difficult to …
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Perturbation-based detection and prosthetic correction of vestibulopathic gait
… stability while standing but not during locomotion. This research examines one prospective locomotor-based technique involving the analysis of postural recovery from controlled surface perturbations. The research also investigates the use of a novel wearable vibrotactile sensory substitution …
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Sensemble : a wireless inertial sensor system for the interactive dance and collective motion analysis
… inertial sensors to create a wearable, wireless, motion analysis system meeting the demands of many points of measurement and high data rates. This thesis outlines the implementation of such a system intended for interactive dance, in which sensor nodes are worn on the wrists and ankles of dancers …
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Embodied Interfaces for Interactive Percussion Instruction
… is the exploration of how a system which uses motion-sensing to replicate the experiential qualities of drumming can be applied to existing pedagogues. Techniques for building a system which recognizes drumming input are discussed, as well as the system's application to a successful …
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Multi-modal on-body sensing of human activities
… This work investigates wearable, on-body sensing techniques on their applicability in the field of human activity recognition. More precisely we are interested in the spotting and recognition of so-called manipulative hand gestures. In particular the thesis focuses on the question whether …
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Interactive exploration of historic information via gesture recognition
… to engage e�ectively with the content. Recently motion sensing input devices like the Microsoft Kinect or Panasonic D-Imager have become available enabling gesture based control of computer systems. These devices present an attractive input device for exhibits since the user can interact with …
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An evaluation of five physical activity assessment methods in a group of women
… Within three weeks, self report diary and motion sensing accelerometer data were collected during three days of free-living physical activity. Simultaneously, heart rate was continuously monitored during one of these days and dietary intake was recorded all three days. Measurements of …
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Gestural patterns: a new method of printed textile design using motion capture technology
… of the integration of two technologies such as motion-capture (MOCAP) and digital textile printing (DTP). The research towards such an innovation required a current, historical, contextual and experimental study of use of motion capture in Art &Design. The research contextualises the hand and …
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Elastomeric microsystems fabricated using transfer printing
… of unusual elastomeric microsystems for sensing, actuation, energy harvesting and robotic micromanipulation. Conventionally, microsystems are constructed by rigid materials such as semiconductors, metals, and dielectric materials with a set of well-established processing methods such as …
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