TY  - JOUR
ID  - harms09b
T1  - Wearable therapist: sensing garments for supporting children improve posture
A1  - Harms, Holger
A1  - Amft, Oliver
A1  - Tröster, Gerhard
JA  - 11th International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing, Ubicomp 2009
Y1  - 2009
N2  - This paper introduces a sensing garment to support posture
coaching in children. The system measures back bending
postures using acceleration sensors embedded in the garment.
We present a sensing garment architecture and the
evaluation of garments of different sizes in a study with 21
children. A vision-based reference system was used to evaluate
sensor positions and measurement accuracy for 54 back
bending postures and related head positions. Then, we asked
eight physiotherapists to rate the children’s back postures in
this study. Ratings of experts correlated significantly with
the back bending measurements obtained from the garment.
The garment enables an objective assessment of back postures
and could form the basis of a system that provides
coaching feedback to improve postural control in children.
ER  -