This study aimed at evaluating the effect of movement education program on static balance skills of preschool children (5-7 years). 80 preschool children in total – 40 in experimental group (20 males and 20 females) and 40 (20 males and 20 females) in control group – were included in this project. While children in the experimental group were administered the movement education program for one ...

This document specifies PA-TNC, a Posture Attribute protocol identical to the Trusted Computing Group’s IF-M 1.0 protocol. The document then evaluates PA-TNC against the requirements defined in the NEA Requirements specification.

In this paper, we investigate the feasibility of a hybrid radio/accelerometric approach to perform arm posture recognition. A radio fingerprinting-based approach, through measurements of the Received radio Signal Strengths (RSSs) from anchor nodes, is first used to localize the positions (among a set determined during a training phase) of target nodes properly placed on a user arm. Accelerometr...

Social robots are starting to be used in assistive scenarios as natural tool to help impaired people in their daily life activities and in rehabilitation activities. A central problem of such kind of systems is the tracking of humans activity in a reliable way. The system presented in this paper tries to address this problem through the use of an RGB-D sensor. State of art algorithms are used t...

This paper proposes a general framework to enhance grasping interactions of an operator wearing a digital glove. We focus on a consistent interpretation of the posture information acquired with the glove in order to reflect the grasp of virtual artifacts. This allows manipulations requiring a higher skill in virtual environment and also improve interactions with virtual human models. A handshak...

cost problems in health care and the amount of money invested in mitigating these problems, the public, providers, and policymakers need to have confidence that money used to improve care is being well spent. It’s true that improvement science requires mixed methods and is difficult, but all good science is difficult. Failing to attend closely to issues of design, methods, and metrics leaves us...

A key point in human movement analysis is measuring the trajectory of a person’s center of mass (CoM). For outdoor applications, differential Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) can be used for tracking persons since they allow measuring the trajectory and speed of the GNSS antenna with centimeter accuracy. However, the antenna cannot be placed exactly at the person’s CoM, but rather on ...

The Defense Information Infrastructure (DII) connects Department of Defense (DoD) mission support, command and control, and intelligence computers and users through voice, data, imagery, video, and multimedia services, and provides information processing and value-added services. For such a critical infrastructure to effectively mitigate risk, optimize its security posture and evaluate its info...