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Showing 1 to 20 of 143 for “"wearable devices"”.
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Integrated Wearable Devices for Prosthetic Applications
… has led to the availability of a wide range of devices that differ in technical features, functional purposes, and degree of user interaction. The use of increasingly innovative materials and technological advances, combined with microcontroller-based boards, ensures continuously improving …
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Wearable Devices for Improved Equine Welfare
… sensing technologies. The success of these devices has led to the introduction of various equine wearable sensors into market. These technologies seek to promote mobile devices to be used in equine training, monitoring, and clinical contexts. Therefore, the objective of this research is to …
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Experimental feedback interfaces for consumer activity tracking wearable devices
Commercial wearable activity trackers have sophisticated monitoring capabilities and digital user interfaces that report personal health metrics; however, these devices have not yet achieved their goal of dramatically improving the wellbeing and performance of users. This research identifies latent …
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A data analytics framework for physiological signals from wearable devices
Wearable devices have emerged as the most innovative opportunity to enable acquisition and quantification of physiological signals in real-world indoor or outdoor contexts. However, their use in research should be based on a reproducible analytics process, ensuring that all the critical steps in …
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Self-Actuated Vibration Through Mechanofluidic Instabilities Using Soft Wearable Devices
… to users and are easily integrated into wearable or handheld devices. Fluidic textile-based devices offer an appealing platform for the incorporation of vibrotactile haptic feedback, as they can be integrated into clothing and other conforming and compliant wearables. However, fluidically …
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Development of micro-thermoelectric generator (µ-TEG) for powering wearable devices
Wearable biomedical devices are the way forward from the episodic to the continuous healthcare system. The incorporation of energy harvesting technologies into wearable biomedical devices represents a significant advancement in sustainable technology, offering the promise of self-powered and …
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Objective real-time motion analysis using wearable devices for post stroke rehabilitation
… of two bluetooth low energy (BLE) modular sensor devices and an iPad. The system uses accelerometers, gyroscopes, and magnetometers to measure movement during three single-tasked clinical activities: the functional reach test, the NIHSS motor arm test, and the NIHSS motor leg test. The proposed …
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Getting under your skin. Development of wearable devices for improved non-invasive diagnostics
Wearable devices offer platforms through which to interact with the information about human health that skin has to offer. From sweat analysis to electrophysiology recordings, capturing the information present on the skin can widely enhance the diagnosis of multiple diseases in an entirely …
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Toward Wireless Wearable Devices Based on Biocompatible AlN Piezoelectric Sensors for Multiple Biosignal Monitoring
L'abstract è presente nell'allegato / the abstract is in the attachment
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A study investigating perceptions of nurses about wearable devices to predict risk of nurse burnout
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2025-12-01
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Accessible Gaming Wearables: Opportunities for Players with Upper Limb Motor Disabilities
There has been increased interest in how wearables can offer new avenues of interaction in video games. However, understanding how wearable devices can support accessible gaming is missing. My research aims to explore this potential with users with upper limb motor disabilities to understand their …
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Intelligent wearables
Wearable devices are more than ever becoming popular assets in our everyday life. This shift to ubiquity prompted the development of wearables to offer immediate, intelligent, informative support to users according their needs in various scenarios and circumstances. The system discussed here, is …
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Physical Activity Recognition and Monitoring for Healthcare in Internet of Things Environment
… by connecting heterogeneous cost-effective wearable devices and mobile apps. Little is currently known about whether traditional PARM technologies can tackle the new challenges of IoT environments and how to effectively harness and improve these technologies. Two new challenges exist in the …
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Customer confusion: product overlap, ambiguous needs, and information overload : an examination of corporate mental models for derivative product creation and their impact on customers
… to examine the issue : Groceries (Trader Joes), Wearable Devices (Fitbit), and Semiconductor (Texas Instruments). We conclude that product ambiguity is the dominant type of customer confusion in the grocery retail industry. Trader Joe's has adopted the no sale strategy to mitigate this effect. We …
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Designing Wearables for Climbing: Integrating the Practice and the Experience Perspectives of Outdoor Adventure Sports
… for sport and addresses the topic of designing wearable devices for sport. To date, the design of wearables for sport has focused on the measurable aspects of performance such as speed, heartbeat and calories burnt. Such design is driven by the possibilities offered by the miniaturisation of …
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Dynamic wearable technology : designing and deploying small climbing robots for sensing and actuation on the human body
This thesis introduces the idea of Dynamic Wearable Technology - a concept of wearable devices as small autonomous robots that can move on and around the human body. Ecosystems in the natural world have static and dynamic organisms such as plants vs. animals. In our wearable ecosystem, all our …
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Affirm on the Run: Wearable Technology as a Tool to Improve Mentality in Endurance Athletes
… 2000s. The development and rapid adoption of wearable technology for endurance athletes has accompanied this boom. Most runners now view wearable technology as integral to their sport. The wide adoption of this technology, in conjunction with the mental nature of endurance sports, makes it …
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Modelling and Evaluation of Piezoelectric Actuators for Wearable Neck Rehabilitation Devices
… to treatment will become highly constrained. Wearable devices that allow at-home rehabilitation address this future limitation. However, few have emerged from the laboratory setting because they are limited by the use of conventional actuators. An overlooked type of actuation technology is …
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Millimeter wave wearable communication networks : analytic modeling and MIMO support
Future high-end wearable electronic devices including virtual reality goggles and augmented reality glasses require rates of the order of gigabits-per-second and potentially very low latency. Supporting high data rate wireless connectivity for applications such as uncompressed video streaming among …
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