Background Accurate assessment is required to assess current and changing physical activity levels, and to evaluate the effectiveness of interventions designed to increase activity …
A Godfrey, R Conway, D Meagher… - Medical engineering & …, 2008 - Elsevier
Human movement has been the subject of investigation since the fifth century when early scientists and researchers attempted to model the human musculoskeletal system. The …
B Najafi, K Aminian… - IEEE Transactions …, 2003 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A new method of physical activity monitoring is presented, which is able to detect body postures (sifting, standing, and lying) and periods of walking in elderly persons using only …
F Foerster, M Smeja, J Fahrenberg - Computers in human behavior, 1999 - Elsevier
The suitable placement of a small number of calibrated piezoresistive accelerometer devices may suffice to assess postures and motions reliably. This finding, which was …
H Van Remoortel, S Giavedoni, Y Raste… - International journal of …, 2012 - Springer
The assessment of physical activity in healthy populations and in those with chronic diseases is challenging. The aim of this systematic review was to identify whether available …
Accurate assessment of the amount and intensity of physical activity in daily life is considered very important due to the close relationship between physical activity level …
G Uswatte, E Taub, D Morris, K Light, PA Thompson - Neurology, 2006 - AAN Enterprises
Background: Data from monkeys with deafferented forelimbs and humans after stroke indicate that tests of the motor capacity of impaired extremities can overestimate their …
NK Gupta, WH Mueller, W Chan… - American journal of …, 2002 - Wiley Online Library
Obesity has reached epidemic proportions in the US and more developed countries, particularly so among adolescents. A substantial impact on public health could be achieved …
Recent research has made a strong case for the importance of NeuroIS methods for IS research. It has suggested that NeuroIS contributes to an improved explanation and …