FASH: detecting tiredness of elders

  • Authors:

  • K. Yonekawa;T. Yonezawa;J. Nakazawa;H. Tokuda

  • Affiliations:

  • The Faculty of Environment and Information Studies, Keio University, Japan;Graduate School of Media and Governance, Keio University, Japan;Graduate School of Media and Governance, Keio University, Japan;The Faculty of Environment and Information Studies, Keio University, Japan

  • Venue:
  • INSS'09 Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Networked sensing systems
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

This paper proposes Fatigue Alerting SHoes(FASH), a pair of shoes which prevents walking elders from falling accidents. Fatigue is one of the causes of elders encountering falling accidents, thus, FASH detects fatigue of walking people. FASH embeds pressure sensor in shoes to detects tiredness of walking people, and prevent falling accidents by alerting them.