Towards Wearable Capacitive Sensing of Physiological Parameters

Jingyuan Cheng; Paul Lukowicz

2nd International ICST Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare

Research Article

Towards Wearable Capacitive Sensing of Physiological Parameters

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@INPROCEEDINGS{10.4108/ICST.PERVASIVEHEALTH2008.2517,
    author={Jingyuan Cheng and Paul Lukowicz},
    title={Towards Wearable Capacitive Sensing of Physiological Parameters},
    proceedings={2nd International ICST Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare},
    publisher={IEEE},
    proceedings_a={PERVASIVEHEALTH},
    year={2008},
    month={7},
    keywords={wearable sensing textile sensors physiological sensing},
    doi={10.4108/ICST.PERVASIVEHEALTH2008.2517}
}

Jingyuan Cheng
Paul Lukowicz
Year: 2008
Towards Wearable Capacitive Sensing of Physiological Parameters
PERVASIVEHEALTH
ICST
DOI: 10.4108/ICST.PERVASIVEHEALTH2008.2517

Jingyuan Cheng¹^,*, Paul Lukowicz¹

1: Embedded Systems Lab, University of Passau, Passau, Germany.

*Contact email: jingyuan.cheng@uni-passau.de

Abstract

We describe an initial investigation of the suitability of body worn capacitive sensors for the measurement of physiological parameters. We describe the basic principle, our measurement setup, and initial signal examples obtained using a conductive textile electrode. The examples show that breathing, breathing depth, and even drinking a cup of water produce distinguishable signals.

Keywords: wearable sensing textile sensors physiological sensing

Published: 2008-07-22
Publisher: IEEE
Modified: 2010-05-16

: http://dx.doi.org/10.4108/ICST.PERVASIVEHEALTH2008.2517