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ASSETS
2009
ACM
13 years 2 months ago
Fall and emergency detection with mobile phones
In this demo, we present an application for mobile phones which can monitor physical activities of users and detect unexpected emergency situations such as a sudden fall or accide...
Hamed Ketabdar, Tim Polzehl
PERCOM
2010
ACM
13 years 2 months ago
PerFallD: A pervasive fall detection system using mobile phones
Falls are a major health risk that diminish the quality of life among elderly people. With the elderly population surging, especially with aging "baby boomers", fall dete...
Jiangpeng Dai, Xiaole Bai, Zhimin Yang, Zhaohui Sh...
PUC
2010
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13 years 2 months ago
Mobile phone-based pervasive fall detection
Falls are a major health risk that diminishes the quality of life among the elderly people. The importance of fall detection increases as the elderly population surges, especially ...
Jiangpeng Dai, Xiaole Bai, Zhimin Yang, Zhaohui Sh...
MHCI
2009
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Detecting physical shock by a mobile phone and its applications in security and emergency
In this paper, we propose a method for detecting physical shock by a mobile phone and its applications in security and emergency scenarios. We use acceleration signal provided by ...
Hamed Ketabdar
WH
2010
208views Healthcare» more  WH 2010»
12 years 11 months ago
Portable, non-invasive fall risk assessment in end stage renal disease patients on hemodialysis
Patients with end stage renal diseases (ESRD) on hemodialysis (HD) have high morbidity and mortality due to multiple causes, one of which is dramatically higher fall rates than th...
Thurmon E. Lockhart, Adam T. Barth, Xiaoyue Zhang,...