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Actidote
This project is a multidisciplinary project funded by the HES-SO. It gathers together data scientists, embedded systems designers, biomechanics experts and human motricity experts from the HEIG-VD (Yverdon), HEPIA (Geneva), and HESAV (Lausanne).
Physical activity measurement for people with disabilities Our skills :
- Sensor-data acquisition & analysis
- Data-driven modeling
- Activity recognition
- Physical inactivity has been identified as a major contributor to the exacerbation of physical illnesses. People with disabilities are less likely to engage in regular moderate physical activity than people without disabilities.
- We are currently developing a self-tracking/motivational system for measuring the physical activity of disabled people on wheelchairs.
- Current commercial physical activity trackers are not appropriate for disabled people on wheelchairs.
- Our system is based on on-body and wheelchair-attached wireless sensors.
- We use a “divide and conquer” approach, which consists on assessing energy expenditure following physical activity type classification
- Activity type recognition should also contribute to the automatic segmentation of the day into light, moderate and vigorous-intensity activities, which can help the person to follow physical activity guidelines
- The system can also be used to monitor the evolution of mobility during rehabilitation
Category
Sensors for measurement of performance
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Electronics/micro-electronics
Person in charge
First name :
Andres
Last name :
Perez-Uribe
Phone :
+41 24 557 73 70
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