Smartphone Based Fall Prevention Exercises

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Autor(a) principal: Bruno Filipe Neves Ferreira
Data de Publicação: 2013
Tipo de documento: Dissertação
Idioma: eng
Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
Texto Completo: https://hdl.handle.net/10216/68726
Resumo: Falls are one of the greatest problems facing ageing and older persons. Due to age-related changes and frailty, individuals may unintentionally lose balance or stability while performing activities of daily living, even without any external cause. Exercise programs focusing on muscle strengthening and balance retraining can be effective as part of a fall prevention approach in both community and residential aged care settings. This thesis is focused on the adaptation of effective fall prevention exercises/programs into a smartphone. The smartphone must guide the older persons throughout the exercises as well as advice about the desired frequency/duration of exercises and, when possible, evaluate the movement being performed (i.e. by using e.g. the accelerometer and gyroscope). So that older persons can make the exercises safely and easily on their own, as well as receive feedback about their movements' performance.
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title Smartphone Based Fall Prevention Exercises
spellingShingle Smartphone Based Fall Prevention Exercises
Bruno Filipe Neves Ferreira
Engenharia electrotécnica, electrónica e informática
Electrical engineering, Electronic engineering, Information engineering
title_short Smartphone Based Fall Prevention Exercises
title_full Smartphone Based Fall Prevention Exercises
title_fullStr Smartphone Based Fall Prevention Exercises
title_full_unstemmed Smartphone Based Fall Prevention Exercises
title_sort Smartphone Based Fall Prevention Exercises
author Bruno Filipe Neves Ferreira
author_facet Bruno Filipe Neves Ferreira
author_role author
dc.contributor.author.fl_str_mv Bruno Filipe Neves Ferreira
dc.subject.por.fl_str_mv Engenharia electrotécnica, electrónica e informática
Electrical engineering, Electronic engineering, Information engineering
topic Engenharia electrotécnica, electrónica e informática
Electrical engineering, Electronic engineering, Information engineering
description Falls are one of the greatest problems facing ageing and older persons. Due to age-related changes and frailty, individuals may unintentionally lose balance or stability while performing activities of daily living, even without any external cause. Exercise programs focusing on muscle strengthening and balance retraining can be effective as part of a fall prevention approach in both community and residential aged care settings. This thesis is focused on the adaptation of effective fall prevention exercises/programs into a smartphone. The smartphone must guide the older persons throughout the exercises as well as advice about the desired frequency/duration of exercises and, when possible, evaluate the movement being performed (i.e. by using e.g. the accelerometer and gyroscope). So that older persons can make the exercises safely and easily on their own, as well as receive feedback about their movements' performance.
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