FASH: Detecting tiredness of elders

K. Yonekawa, T. Yonezawa, J. Nakazawa, H. Tokuda

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Abstract

This paper proposes Fatigue Alerting SHoes(FASH), a pair of shoes which prevents walking elders from falling accidents. Fatigue is one of the causes of elders encountering falling accidents, thus, FASH detects fatigue of walking people. FASH embeds pressure sensor in shoes to detects tiredness of walking people, and prevent falling accidents by alerting them.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationINSS2009 - 6th International Conference on Networked Sensing Systems
Number of pages1
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2009 Dec 1
Event6th International Conference on Networked Sensing Systems, INSS2009 - Pittsburgh, PA, United States
Duration: 2009 Jun 172009 Jun 19

Publication series

NameINSS2009 - 6th International Conference on Networked Sensing Systems

Other

Other6th International Conference on Networked Sensing Systems, INSS2009
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityPittsburgh, PA
Period09/6/1709/6/19

Keywords

  • Elder
  • Fatigue detection
  • NUTS
  • Pressure sensor
  • Ubiquitous

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Computer Networks and Communications

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