Stretchable Electronic Wearable Motion Sensors Delineate Signatures of Human Motion Tasks.

ABSTRACT: Digital tracking of human motion offers the potential to monitor a wide range of activities detecting normal versus abnormal performance of tasks. We examined the ability of a wearable, conformal sensor system, fabricated from stretchable electronics with contained accelerometers and gyroscopes, to specifically detect, monitor, and define motion signals and "signatures," associated with tasks of daily living activities. The sensor system was affixed to the dominant hand of healthy volunteers (n = 4) who then completed four tasks. For all tasks examined, motion data could be captured, monitored continuously, uploaded to the digital cloud, and stored for further analysis. Acceleration and gyroscope data were collected in the x-, y-, and z-axes, yielding unique patterns of component motion si

SUBMITTER: Garlant JA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6128668 | biostudies-literature | 2018 May/Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature