title: An e-textile system for motion analysis.
abstract: Electronic textiles (e-textiles) offer the promise of home health care devices that integrate seamlessly into the wearer's everyday lifestyle while providing a higher level of functionality than current devices. Existing gait analysis systems are cumbersome laboratory-based systems that, while providing valuable information, would be difficult or impossible to deploy in the home. Yet gait analysis systems offer the promise of preventing and/or mitigating the serious effects of falls in the elderly population. This paper proposes an e-textile solution to this problem along with a design approach for realizing a solution that is inexpensive and usable across the elderly population. Preliminary results are given to demonstrate the promise of the proposed system.
authors.affiliation: Electrical and Computer Engineering Virginia Tech, 340 Whittemore Hall, Blacksburg VA 24061-0111, USA.
authors.forename: Josh
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Edmison
authors.forename: Mark
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Jones
authors.forename: Thurmon
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Lockhart
authors.forename: Thomas
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Martin
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D001696:Biomechanical Phenomena / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods; D003020:Clothing; D003362:Cost-Benefit Analysis; D005684:Gait; D006801:Humans; D018670:Monitoring, Ambulatory / Q000191:economics / Q000295:instrumentation* / Q000379:methods; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D017216:Telemedicine; D013784:Textiles
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