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Showing 1 to 20 of 40 for “"wearable sensor"”.
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Iwear - intelligent wearable sensor systems for disability rehabilitation
Wearable sensor-based healthcare systems have drawn a lot of attention from the scientific community and the industry during the past several years. As the healthcare cost is increasing and the population is aging, unobtrusive, low cost and accurate healthcare systems will potentially transform the …
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Workforce fatigue prediction via wearable sensor data analytics
… force-based endurance models, and other wearable ergonomic systems. The feasibility of the framework was demonstrated using a custom MATLAB application supporting wearable data streaming, manual entry of anthropometric and task-related data, and output of endurance metrics. This solution …
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Wearable Sensor System for Quantifying Proprioceptive Competence in Microgravity
… We designed, built, and pilot tested a wearable sensor system capable of inertial motion capture in the parabolic flight environment. Through comparing whole-body joint fluidity in translation movements done in 1-g and microgravity, we found evidence suggesting an increased fluidity upon …
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Senti : a wearable sensor for physiological data acquisition in early education
Wearable sensors have been used in research efforts aiming to develop a mapping between physiological responses of the autonomic nervous system, namely electrodermal activity and heart rate variability, to emotional reactions such as arousal, stress, and attention. While many studies conducted with …
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Wearable sensor systems to study the physiological and behavioral manifestation of cigarette smoking in free-living
… conditions. This dissertation proposes new wearable sensor systems and related signal/image processing and pattern recognition methods for the objective, accurate and automatic detection of cigarette smoking with minimal effort from the person being observed. Main accomplishments of this …
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Life patterns : structure from wearable sensors
… methods for extracting life's patterns from wearable sensor data. Life patterns are the reoccurring events in daily behavior, such as those induced by the regular cycle of night and day, weekdays and weekends, work and play, eating and sleeping. My hypothesis is that since a "raw, low-level" …
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Sensing and modeling human networks
… first challenge was to collect rich and unbiased sensor data of natural interactions. The "sociometer", a specially designed wearable sensor package, was built to address this problem by unobtrusively measuring face-to-face interactions between people. Using the sociometers, 1518 hours of wearable …
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RF SENSORS FOR MEDICAL AND CYBER-PHYSICAL INTELLIGENCE
… signals. I seek to establish a touchless RF sensor that can be implemented as wearables on users, or integrated into the furniture to become invisible to the user. Such sensor can greatly enhance data continuity, comfort and convenience to enable many healthcare applications, especially for …
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Gesture Based Home Automation for the Physically Disabled
… home-healthcare. Augmented with a non-invasive wearable sensor system and home-automation equipment, the patient can regain a level of autonomy at a fraction of the cost of home nurses. A system which utilizes sensor fusion, low-power digital components, and smartphone cellular capabilities can …
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Automated Force-Velocity Profiling of NFL Athletes via High-Frequency Tracking Data
… coaches, and trainers. Given the recent rise of wearable sensor technologies that track player movement in dynamic contexts, there is a clear opportunity to leverage new data streams to enhance this process. We present a novel system for automated force-velocity profiling using publicly available …
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Healthcare Agents: Large Language Models in Health Prediction and Decision-Making
… LLMs for multimodal health prediction from wearable sensor data and (2) developing collaborative AI framework for medical decision-making. We first introduce a Health-LLM framework that performs multimodal fusion of temporal physiological signals from wearable devices with contextual …
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Wearable Devices for Improved Equine Welfare
… periods, and measure vital parameters. These sensors leverage global positioning systems, accelerometers, magnetometers, goniometers, optics, among other emerging sensing technologies. The success of these devices has led to the introduction of various equine wearable sensors into market. …
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Design and analysis of fingernail sensors for measurement of fingertip touch fouce and finger posture
A new type of wearable sensor for detecting fingertip touch force and finger posture is presented. Unlike traditional electronic gloves, in which sensors are embedded along the finger and on the fingerpads, this new device does not constrict finger motion and allows the fingers to directly contact …
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Design and analysis of wearable conductive fiber sensors for continuous multi-axis joint angle measurements
… patient over a long period of time, and so a new wearable sensor has been developed. A novel technique of incorporating conductive fibers into flexible, skin-tight fabrics surrounding a joint is used. Resistance changes across these conductive fibers are measured, and directly related to specific …
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Treadmill Assisted Circumvention of Wearable Sensors-based Gait Authentication
<p>Wearable sensor-based gait patterns are considered a promising means for future authentication systems. This dissertation examines whether circumvention of such systems can be accomplished by imitating sensor readings and providing external mechanical support. The specific machine that we used …
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Development of a wearable blood pressure monitor using adaptive calibration of peripheral pulse transit time measurements
… long-term (for hours, days, or weeks) using a wearable device as unobtrusive as a wristwatch or piece of jewelry, could revolutionize the study, diagnosis, and treatment of hypertension, heart failure, and other cardiovascular disorders. Today's familiar blood pressure cuffs are used to …
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Development and Implementation of Laboratory Test Methods for the Evaluation of Wearable Head Impact Sensors
With a rise in wearable sensor technology and the desire to investigate head impacts in previously unstudied groups, wearable head impact sensors have reached nation-wide popularity for their promising benefits to consumers and researchers. However, there are risks in relying on such technology …
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Responsive temperature and pressure sensor design for in-situ prosthesis monitoring applications based on the piezoelectric and pyroelectric effects in lead zirconate titanate
This thesis presents the development of a sensor based on the pyroelectric and piezoelectric effects that can be used to measure both temperature and/or axial stress for specific use within a prosthetic socket, and more generally as a responsive temperature sensor capable of detecting high …
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A machine learning approach to predict emotional arousal and aggressive driving from EDA and heart rate signals
… research highlights the potential of integrating wearable sensor data with machine learning to build real-time driver monitoring systems aimed at improving road safety.
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