TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2016//
TI  - Identifying the number and location of body worn sensors to accurately classify walking, transferring and sedentary activities
JO  - Conference proceedings - IEEE engineering in medicine and biology society
A1  - Aziz, Omar
A1  - Robinovitch, Stephen N.
A1  - Park, Edward J.
SP  - 5003
EP  - 5006
VL  - 2016
IS  - 
N2  - In order to perform fall risk assessments using wearable inertial sensors in older adults in their natural settings where falls are likely to occur, a first step is to automatically segment and classify sensor signals of human movements into the known 'activities of interest'. Sensor data from such activities can later be used through quantitative and qualitative analysis for differentiating fallers from non-fallers. In this study, ten young adults participated in experimental trials involving several variations of walking, transferring and sedentary activities. Data from tri-axial accelerometers and gyroscopes were used to classify the aforementioned three categories using a multiclass support vector machine algorithm. Our results showed 100% accuracy in distinguishing walking, transferring and sedentary activities using data from a three-sensor combination of sternum and both ankles.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 1557-170X
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/EMBC.2016.7591851
ID  - ref1
ER  -