Research Article
FASH: Detecting tiredness of walking people using pressure sensors
@INPROCEEDINGS{10.4108/ICST.MOBIQUITOUS2009.6894, author={Kenji Yonekawa and Takuro Yonezawa and Jin Nakazawa and Hideyuki Tokuda}, title={FASH: Detecting tiredness of walking people using pressure sensors}, proceedings={1st International Workshop on Ubiquitous Mobile Healthcare Applications}, publisher={IEEE}, proceedings_a={MOBILE HEALTHCARE}, year={2009}, month={11}, keywords={Accidents Bones Cameras Fatigue Footwear Injuries Legged locomotion Magnetic heads Senior citizens Sensor systems}, doi={10.4108/ICST.MOBIQUITOUS2009.6894} }- Kenji Yonekawa
Takuro Yonezawa
Jin Nakazawa
Hideyuki Tokuda
Year: 2009
FASH: Detecting tiredness of walking people using pressure sensors
MOBILE HEALTHCARE
IEEE
DOI: 10.4108/ICST.MOBIQUITOUS2009.6894
Abstract
The number of elders who encounter falling accidents has been increasing in the past few decades. Falling accidents could cause major injuries, such as having bruise, breaking bone, and in the worst case, losing life. Therefore, preventing elders from falling accidents is important in order to ensure the quality of life. In this paper, we propose Fatigue Alerting SHoes (FASH), a pair of shoes which detects the fatigue of walking people. There are three effects of fatigue on gait, and FASH system acquires all of them to improve the accuracy of fatigue detection. FASH system uses pressure sensors embedded in a pair of shoes to detect the tiredness, and notifies the user of “Tiredness Scale,” a scale we defined in order to show the degree of tiredness. Through the evaluation, we affirmed the availability of using pressure sensor to detect accumulation of tiredness. We also confirmed the difference between the physical tiredness and the subjective feeling toward tiredness, which signifies the importance of acknowledging the user of his/her fatigue.