TY  - CONF
ID  - Harms2008-P_BodyNets
T1  - {SMASH}: A distributed sensing and processing garment for the classification of upper body postures
A1  - Harms, Holger
A1  - Amft, Oliver
A1  - Roggen, Daniel
A1  - Tröster, Gerhard
TI  - BodyNets 2008: Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Body Area Networks
Y1  - 2008
PB  - ACM press
N1  - Recipient of the Best Paper Award, sponsored by the Consortium for Embedded Systems.
KW  - Posture Classification
KW  - Smart Shirt
KW  - Smart Textiles
KW  - SMASH
N2  - This paper introduces a smart textile for posture classification. A distributed sensing and processing architecture is implemented into a loose fitting long sleeve shirt. Standardized interfaces to remote periphery support the variable placement of different sensor modalities at any location of the textile. The shirt is equipped with acceleration sensors in order to determine the postural resolution and the systems feasibility for applications in movement rehabilitation. For the garment characterization an arm posture measurement method is proposed and applied in a study with 5 users. The classification performance is analyzed on data from overall 8 users, conducting 12 posture types, relevant for shoulder and elbow joint rehabilitation. We present results for different user-modes, with classification rates of 89\% for a user-independent evaluation. Moreover, the relation of body dimensions on the posture classification performance are analyzed.
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pdf={Harms2008-P_BodyNets.pdf}
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timestamp={2008/01/06}
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