{"id":{"repo_id":"texas-state","oai_identifier":"oai:digital.library.txst.edu:10877/12103"},"canonical_url":"https://search.dev.ndltd.org/etd/texas-state/oai:digital.library.txst.edu:10877/12103","repository":{"repo_id":"texas-state","name":"Texas State University","base_url":"https://digital.library.txst.edu/server/oai/request"},"display":{"title":"Continuous Personalized Fall Detection and Data Collection","abstract":"Falls are very real problems for elderly people. Falling is the leading cause of injury and death in older Americans according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Currently there is no software system for reliably detecting falls for elder people that is unobtrusive, affordable, and easily accessible. While the idea of using a wrist worn smart watch to collect accelerometer data to predict falls has been proposed before, the fall detection algorithms are all trained using simulated fall data from healthy young adults. Any system trained for fall detection that utilizes only a simulated dataset cannot be recommended for real-world application as it does not reflect the characteristics of fall from the target population. We propose a solution that will move fall detection into the real world by being capable of collecting real data from elder patients unobtrusively. This system utilizes an online database and a GPU server to collect labeled data from each user and retrain the model specific to that user dynamically. This allows the system to learn the patterns in a user’s linear acceleration data combined with a pre-existing synthetic dataset to determine if a user has fallen or not. That is, it will be capable of personalizing the model to each user to improve precision while maintaining the recall. Additionally, it is capable of reliably collecting all linear acceleration data (falls or activities of daily life) from a user via positive and negative feedback data. This will help to provide future research with real-world fall datasets to create even more reliable models. This system is built to scale using Couchbase, Tensorflow, and commodity smartwatch and smartphone devices.","abstract_html":"Falls are very real problems for elderly people. Falling is the leading cause of injury and death in older Americans according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Currently there is no software system for reliably detecting falls for elder people that is unobtrusive, affordable, and easily accessible. While the idea of using a wrist worn smart watch to collect accelerometer data to predict falls has been proposed before, the fall detection algorithms are all trained using simulated fall data from healthy young adults. Any system trained for fall detection that utilizes only a simulated dataset cannot be recommended for real-world application as it does not reflect the characteristics of fall from the target population. We propose a solution that will move fall detection into the real world by being capable of collecting real data from elder patients unobtrusively. This system utilizes an online database and a GPU server to collect labeled data from each user and retrain the model specific to that user dynamically. This allows the system to learn the patterns in a user’s linear acceleration data combined with a pre-existing synthetic dataset to determine if a user has fallen or not. That is, it will be capable of personalizing the model to each user to improve precision while maintaining the recall. Additionally, it is capable of reliably collecting all linear acceleration data (falls or activities of daily life) from a user via positive and negative feedback data. This will help to provide future research with real-world fall datasets to create even more reliable models. This system is built to scale using Couchbase, Tensorflow, and commodity smartwatch and smartphone devices.","abstract_has_math":false,"creators":["Coyne, Shaun"],"institution":"Texas State University","degree_name":null,"degree_level":null,"degree_discipline":"Computer Science","degree_department":null,"school":null,"contributors":[],"advisors":["Ngu, Anne H.H."],"committee_chairs":[],"committee_members":[],"year":2020,"date_issued":"2020-05","date_published":"2020-05","updated_at":"2026-07-27T21:22:55Z","subjects":["fall detection","RNN","deep learning","Couchbase","data collection","labeled dataset","user feedback","automation","continuous training","activity recognition"],"languages":["en"],"rights":[],"rights_urls":[],"identifier_entries":[]},"links":{"outbound_url":"https://hdl.handle.net/10877/12103","outbound_label":"Handle","outbound_source":"dc:identifier.uri"},"metadata_groups":[{"id":"people","label":"People","entries":[{"key":"dc:contributor.advisor","label":"Advisor","values":["Ngu, Anne H.H."]},{"key":"dc:creator","label":"Author","values":["Coyne, Shaun"]}]},{"id":"academic_context","label":"Academic Context","entries":[{"key":"dc:date.accessioned","label":"Dc Date Accessioned","values":["2020-07-16T21:08:24Z"]},{"key":"dc:date.available","label":"Dc Date Available","values":["2020-07-16T21:08:24Z"]},{"key":"dc:date.issued","label":"Date","values":["2020-05"]},{"key":"dc:type","label":"Dc Type","values":["Thesis"]},{"key":"thesis:degree_discipline","label":"Discipline","values":["Computer Science"]},{"key":"thesis:institution_name","label":"Thesis Institution Name","values":["Texas State University"]}]},{"id":"subjects_keywords","label":"Subjects and Keywords","entries":[{"key":"dc:subject","label":"Dc Subject","values":["fall detection","RNN","deep learning","Couchbase","data collection","labeled dataset","user feedback","automation","continuous training","activity recognition"]}]},{"id":"language_rights","label":"Language and Rights","entries":[{"key":"dc:language.iso","label":"Language (ISO)","values":["en"]}]},{"id":"identifiers","label":"Identifiers","entries":[{"key":"dc:identifier.uri","label":"Identifier URI","values":["https://hdl.handle.net/10877/12103"]}]},{"id":"additional","label":"Additional Metadata","entries":[{"key":"dc:description.abstract","label":"Abstract","values":["Falls are very real problems for elderly people. Falling is the leading cause of injury and death in older Americans according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Currently there is no software system for reliably detecting falls for elder people that is unobtrusive, affordable, and easily accessible. While the idea of using a wrist worn smart watch to collect accelerometer data to predict falls has been proposed before, the fall detection algorithms are all trained using simulated fall data from healthy young adults. Any system trained for fall detection that utilizes only a simulated dataset cannot be recommended for real-world application as it does not reflect the characteristics of fall from the target population. We propose a solution that will move fall detection into the real world by being capable of collecting real data from elder patients unobtrusively. This system utilizes an online database and a GPU server to collect labeled data from each user and retrain the model specific to that user dynamically. This allows the system to learn the patterns in a user’s linear acceleration data combined with a pre-existing synthetic dataset to determine if a user has fallen or not. That is, it will be capable of personalizing the model to each user to improve precision while maintaining the recall. Additionally, it is capable of reliably collecting all linear acceleration data (falls or activities of daily life) from a user via positive and negative feedback data. This will help to provide future research with real-world fall datasets to create even more reliable models. This system is built to scale using Couchbase, Tensorflow, and commodity smartwatch and smartphone devices."]},{"key":"dc:format","label":"Dc Format","values":["Text"]},{"key":"dc:format.medium","label":"Dc Format Medium","values":["1 file (.pdf)"]},{"key":"dc:title","label":"Title","values":["Continuous Personalized Fall Detection and Data Collection"]}]}],"canonical_facts":{"dc:contributor.advisor":["Ngu, Anne H.H."],"dc:creator":["Coyne, Shaun"],"dc:date.accessioned":["2020-07-16T21:08:24Z"],"dc:date.available":["2020-07-16T21:08:24Z"],"dc:date.issued":["2020-05"],"dc:description.abstract":["Falls are very real problems for elderly people. Falling is the leading cause of injury and death in older Americans according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Currently there is no software system for reliably detecting falls for elder people that is unobtrusive, affordable, and easily accessible. While the idea of using a wrist worn smart watch to collect accelerometer data to predict falls has been proposed before, the fall detection algorithms are all trained using simulated fall data from healthy young adults. Any system trained for fall detection that utilizes only a simulated dataset cannot be recommended for real-world application as it does not reflect the characteristics of fall from the target population. We propose a solution that will move fall detection into the real world by being capable of collecting real data from elder patients unobtrusively. This system utilizes an online database and a GPU server to collect labeled data from each user and retrain the model specific to that user dynamically. This allows the system to learn the patterns in a user’s linear acceleration data combined with a pre-existing synthetic dataset to determine if a user has fallen or not. That is, it will be capable of personalizing the model to each user to improve precision while maintaining the recall. Additionally, it is capable of reliably collecting all linear acceleration data (falls or activities of daily life) from a user via positive and negative feedback data. This will help to provide future research with real-world fall datasets to create even more reliable models. This system is built to scale using Couchbase, Tensorflow, and commodity smartwatch and smartphone devices."],"dc:format":["Text"],"dc:format.medium":["1 file (.pdf)"],"dc:identifier.uri":["https://hdl.handle.net/10877/12103"],"dc:language.iso":["en"],"dc:subject":["fall detection","RNN","deep learning","Couchbase","data collection","labeled dataset","user feedback","automation","continuous training","activity recognition"],"dc:title":["Continuous Personalized Fall Detection and Data Collection"],"dc:type":["Thesis"],"thesis:degree_discipline":["Computer Science"],"thesis:institution_name":["Texas State University"]},"updated_at":"2026-07-27T21:22:55Z"}