At German Sport University Cologne, the two EU-funded research projects FARSEEING and iStoppFalls were presented by Professor Wiebren Zijlstra (FARSEEING, German Sport University) and Dr. Rainer Wieching (iStoppFalls, University of Siegen) to 20 Journalists of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. The purpose of the journalist’s tour was to inform the general population afterwards about […]
Audio slides have been prepared to accompany the publication of the FARSEEING systematic review of users’ perceptions of technologies aimed at falls prevention, detection or monitoring. Click on the play button at the bottom of the image to see and hear the slides presented by Dr Helen Hawley-Hague.
Moufawad El Achkar, C. et al. 2013, 7th International Conference on Pervasive Health Technologies for Healthcare. p.256-259. http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/login.jsp?tp=&arnumber=6563936&url=http%3A%2F%2Fieeexplore.ieee.org%2Fxpls%2Fabs_all.jsp%3Farnumber%3D6563936 We propose a new minimal wearable system and a classifier for physical activity recognition. The configuration is solely based on two force sensors placed anteriorly and posteriorly under the feet. To find the optimal sensor configuration, we […]
Published in Z. Gerontolo. Geriatri. 2013, 46(8): 720-726 by Klenk, J. et al. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24271252 Objective measurement of real-world fall events by using body-worn sensor devices can improve the understanding of falls in older people and enable new technology to prevent, predict, and automatically recognize falls. However, these events are rare and hence challenging to capture. […]
