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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"wearable systems"”.
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Development and Validation of Wearable Systems for Human Postural Sway Analysis
… percent for those aged over 85 years. Nowadays wearable systems are gaining popularity to perform fall risk assessments and investigating fall events in natural environments. However all commercially existing systems are expensive, thus there is paucity of knowledge to develop and validate …
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Designing personal systems for mindful decision making
… This thesis explores how to design personalized, wearable technologies that can support more mindful behavior. It investigates the various challenges that exists when designing such systems-.and provides design considerations for future systems. Human behavior researchers have argued that although …
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AI-Driven Wearable Sensing Systems for Human Well-being
Wearable sensing technologies are evolving from simple activity trackers into intelligent, multimodal systems that can continuously assess and enhance human well-being. Traditional devices remain largely passive, limited by heterogeneous data, energy constraints, and opaque AI models. This thesis, …
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Compact planar wearable ultra wideband antenna for on-body applications
… and medical sensors has given an interest in wearable antennas that are made for operation on the living bodies. Engineers have not stopped at creating a remarkable technology such as wearable systems, but also involved in understanding the interaction of electromagnetic (EM) waves with the …
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Algorithm-circuit co-design for detecting symptomatic patterns in biological signals
… disorders in the form of implantable and wearable systems. This necessitates the development of energy efficient and functionally efficacious systems. This thesis has explored the algorithm-circuit co-design approach for developing an energy efficient epileptic seizure detection processor …
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An Ambulatory Monitoring Algorithm to Unify Diverse E-Textile Garments
… order to support low power devices inherent for wearable systems, the algorithm utilizes regular expressions along with a tree search during classification. To validate the approach, a user study was conducted using video motion capture to record subjects performing a variety of activities. The …
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High-Density Electrode Arrays for Cutaneous Electrophysiology and Body Surface Potential Mapping Design, fabrication and biomedical applications
… of next-generation non-invasive monitoring systems. Bridging bioelectronics, materials science and machine learning, the work delivers a platform for advanced spatio-temporal electrophysiological sensing. The first section focuses on the optimisation of electrode array designs. Through …
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Biomimetic Biomechanical Sensors for Intelligent Wearable Interfaces
… sensing by developing nature-inspired wearable sensor technologies that emulate and extend the complex structure and functions of biological tissues such as human skin and fingers. Human skin operates as a dynamic biomechanical interface, encoding rich physiological and behavioural …
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Design, Investigation and Implementation of Hetrogenous Antennas for Diverse Wireless Applications. Simulation and Measurement of Heterogeneous Antennas for Outdoor/indoor Applications, including the Design of Dielectric Resonators, Reconfigurable and multiband DR antennas, and Investigation of Antenna Radiation Performance and Design Optimization
… 9dBi attained. In addition, a compact conformal wearable CPW antenna using EBG-FSS for MBAN applications at 2.4GHz is proposed. They are designed using fabric materials suitable for daily clothing. The performance of the antenna is investigated in free space, on a layered biological tissue model, …
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A Study Exploring the Use of Artificial Ligaments to Enhance the Human-Robot Interface Via Force Distribution Manipulation in Biomimetic Cuff Systems
… is among the main priorities when designing a wearable assistive device that needs to be used for long sessions. There is a growing need for wearable systems that provide aid to patients with an injured knee. In addition, there has been an effort to incorporate cable-driven designs rather than …
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Usability Engineering of Text Drawing Styles in Augmented Reality User Interfaces
… (GUI) backgrounds. Instead we will employ wearable systems to move about and augmented reality displays to overlay 2D and three-dimensional (3D) graphics onto the real world. When the computer graphics and user interface communities evolved from text-based user interfaces to 2D GUIs, many …
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Multi-material Non-planar Additive Manufacturing for Conformal Electronics on Curvilinear Surfaces
… of conformal electronics and form-fitting wearables. After reviewing the current state of knowledge and state of the art, significant challenges in non-planar AM have been identified as: 1) limited non-planar AM path planning capability that synergizes with personalized or anatomical object …
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Design and Implementation of Complexity Reduced Digital Signal Processors for Low Power Biomedical Applications
Wearable health monitoring systems can provide remote care with supervised, inde-pendent living which are capable of signal sensing, acquisition, local processing and transmission. A generic biopotential signal (such as Electrocardiogram (ECG), and Electroencephalogram (EEG)) processing platform …
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Les effets des orthèses plantaires personnalisées sur la douleur, la fonction du pied et sur la marche des patients atteints de l’arthrite psoriasique
Introduction : Les atteintes du pied chez les patients atteints de l’arthrite psoriasique (APso) sont une source de douleur importante. Celles-ci peuvent affecter la marche des patients et leurs activités ambulatoires et avoir ainsi un impact important sur leur qualité de vie. L’orthèse plantaire …
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Passive upper-limb exoskeleton based on Pneumatic Artificial Muscles
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Obstacles to wearable computing
In the year 2021, wearable technology could look beautiful and feel magical, but instead is exemplified by a plain wristband that looks suspiciously like a prison monitor. How can we make wearable technology that respects our privacy, enhances our daily lives, integrates with our other connected …
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NANOSTRUCTURED COMPOSITE FILMS FOR BRAIN-MACHINE INTERFACE APPLICATIONS
… and non-invasive signal processing enable wearable systems to monitor brain and peripheral neural activity [2] in view of the development of efficient Brain-Machine Interfaces (BMIs) [3]. While the quality and quantity of signal recordings have improved [4], managing and processing large …