A survey on wearable sensor modality centred human activity recognition in health care

Y Wang, S Cang, H Yu - Expert Systems with Applications, 2019 - Elsevier
Increased life expectancy coupled with declining birth rates is leading to an aging
population structure. Aging-caused changes, such as physical or cognitive decline, could …

A systematic literature review of reviews on techniques for physical activity measurement in adults: a DEDIPAC study

KP Dowd, R Szeklicki, MA Minetto, MH Murphy… - International Journal of …, 2018 - Springer
The links between increased participation in Physical Activity (PA) and improvements in
health are well established. As this body of evidence has grown, so too has the search for …

[HTML][HTML] Physical human activity recognition using wearable sensors

F Attal, S Mohammed, M Dedabrishvili, F Chamroukhi… - Sensors, 2015 - mdpi.com
This paper presents a review of different classification techniques used to recognize human
activities from wearable inertial sensor data. Three inertial sensor units were used in this …

A review of wearable technologies for elderly care that can accurately track indoor position, recognize physical activities and monitor vital signs in real time

Z Wang, Z Yang, T Dong - Sensors, 2017 - mdpi.com
Rapid growth of the aged population has caused an immense increase in the demand for
healthcare services. Generally, the elderly are more prone to health problems compared to …

The use of wearable microsensors to quantify sport-specific movements

R Chambers, TJ Gabbett, MH Cole, A Beard - Sports medicine, 2015 - Springer
Background Microtechnology has allowed sport scientists to understand the locomotor
demands of various sports. While wearable global positioning technology has been used to …

Wearable sensors based human behavioral pattern recognition using statistical features and reweighted genetic algorithm

MAK Quaid, A Jalal - Multimedia Tools and Applications, 2020 - Springer
Human behavior pattern recognition (BPR) from accelerometer signals is a challenging
problem due to variations in signal durations of different behaviors. Analysis of human …

Factors associated with post-stroke physical activity: a systematic review and meta-analysis

S Thilarajah, BF Mentiplay, KJ Bower, D Tan… - Archives of physical …, 2018 - Elsevier
Objective To integrate the literature investigating factors associated with post-stroke physical
activity. Data Sources A search was conducted from database inception to June 2016 across …

Measurement of adults' sedentary time in population-based studies

GN Healy, BK Clark, EAH Winkler, PA Gardiner… - American journal of …, 2011 - Elsevier
Sedentary time (too much sitting) increasingly is being recognized as a distinct health risk
behavior. This paper reviews the reliability and validity of self-reported and device-based …

Optimal placement of accelerometers for the detection of everyday activities

I Cleland, B Kikhia, C Nugent, A Boytsov, J Hallberg… - Sensors, 2013 - mdpi.com
This article describes an investigation to determine the optimal placement of accelerometers
for the purpose of detecting a range of everyday activities. The paper investigates the effect …

Assessment of physical activity and energy expenditure: an overview of objective measures

AP Hills, N Mokhtar, NM Byrne - Frontiers in nutrition, 2014 - frontiersin.org
The ability to assess energy expenditure (EE) and estimate physical activity (PA) in free-
living individuals is extremely important in the global context of non-communicable diseases …