Preliminary Study on the Design of a Low-cost Movement Analysis System - Reliability Measurement of Timed Up and Go Test

Asma Hassani, Alexandre Kubicki, Vincent Brost, Fan Yang

2014

Abstract

In this paper, we present experiments on the design of a novel movement analysis system for real-time balance assessment in the frail elderly. Using the Microsoft Kinect sensors, we capture TUG (Timed Up and Go) tests and mainly analyze the transfer from sitting-to-standing and back-to-sitting which represent two of the most commonly executed human movements. Nine spatio-temporal parameters were extracted from recorded joint positions by 3D skeletal sequence processing. In order to validate and evaluate the developed system, practical test experiences have been performed on ten healthy young subjects, who were asked to realize the TUG in three different conditions: normal, cognitive and motor. Obtained results showed good measurement reliability and reproducibility with important precision. In addition, we observed that even for young healthy subjects, there is a significant difference of movement parameter between normal condition and cognitive condition, which represents a stimulating result in the dual task paradigm field. This preliminary study opens a new research and development way for geriatric health which implies multiple aspects: user-friendly, hygiene, low-cost, home-based environment, and automatic autonomy assessment.

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Hassani A., Kubicki A., Brost V. and Yang F. (2014). Preliminary Study on the Design of a Low-cost Movement Analysis System - Reliability Measurement of Timed Up and Go Test . In Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications - Volume 2: VISAPP, (VISIGRAPP 2014) ISBN 978-989-758-004-8, pages 662-667. DOI: 10.5220/0004747806620667


in Bibtex Style

@conference{visapp14,
author={Asma Hassani and Alexandre Kubicki and Vincent Brost and Fan Yang},
title={Preliminary Study on the Design of a Low-cost Movement Analysis System - Reliability Measurement of Timed Up and Go Test},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications - Volume 2: VISAPP, (VISIGRAPP 2014)},
year={2014},
pages={662-667},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0004747806620667},
isbn={978-989-758-004-8},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications - Volume 2: VISAPP, (VISIGRAPP 2014)
TI - Preliminary Study on the Design of a Low-cost Movement Analysis System - Reliability Measurement of Timed Up and Go Test
SN - 978-989-758-004-8
AU - Hassani A.
AU - Kubicki A.
AU - Brost V.
AU - Yang F.
PY - 2014
SP - 662
EP - 667
DO - 10.5220/0004747806620667