Smartphone-based automatic measurement of the results of the timed-up and go test

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Ponciano, Vasco
Pires, Ivan Miguel
Ribeiro, Fernando Reinaldo
Garcia, Nuno M.
Pombo, Nuno
Spinsante, Susanna
Crisóstomo, Rute

Association for Computing Machinery

PONCIANO, Vasco [et al.] (2019) - Smartphone-based automatic measurement of the results of the timed-up and go test. In EAI International Conference on Smart Objects and Technologies for Social Good, 5, Valencia. [S.L.]: ACM. p. 239-242

10.1145/3342428.3343035

Smartphone-based automatic measurement of the results of the timed-up and go test

Data acquisition
Data processing
Data classification
Mobile application
Sensors

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2019-09-09T15:07:42Z
2019-09-09T15:07:42Z
2019

The Timed-Up and Go test is a very used test in the physiotherapy area. For the measurement of the results of the test, we propose to use a smartphone with several embedded sensors, including accelerometer, magnetometer, gyroscope, a Bitalino device with the Electromyography (EMG) and Electrocardiography (ECG) sensors, and a second Bitalino device with a pressure sensor connected and positioned in the back of the chair. This architecture allows to capture several types of data from the sensors easily. In this paper, we present a structured method to implement the measurement of the different parameters involved in the Timed-up and Go test, for acquiring, processing and cleaning the collected measurements. This data will help in the classification of the test results initially, and later on to discover more complex patterns and related conditions, such as equilibrium changes, neurological pathologies, degenerative pathologies, lesions of lower limbs and chronic venous diseases.
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