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Detecting and interpreting muscle activity with wearable force sensors

Authors:

Friedrich Hanser,

Christoph Szubski,

Wolfgang SchobersbergerAuthors Info & Claims

PERVASIVE'06: Proceedings of the 4th international conference on Pervasive Computing

Pages 101 - 116

https://doi.org/10.1007/11748625_7

Published: 07 May 2006 Publication History

Abstract

In this paper we present a system for assessing muscle activity by using wearable force sensors placed on the muscle surface. Such sensors are very thin, power efficient and have also been demonstrated as pure textile devices, so that they can be easily integrated in such garments as elastic underwear or tight shorts/shirt. On the example upper-leg muscle we show how good signal quality can be reliably acquired under realistic conditions. We then show how information about general user context can be derived from the muscle activity signal. We first look at the modes of locomotion problem which is a well studied, benchmark-like problem in the community. We then demonstrate the correlation between the signals from our system and user fatigue. We conclude with a discussion of other types of information that can be derived from the muscle activity based on physiological considerations and example data form our experiments.

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PERVASIVE'06: Proceedings of the 4th international conference on Pervasive Computing

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System Research Group, School of Computer Science and Informatics, UCD, 720 4th Ave. #400, Dublin, WA, Ireland
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