Systems for human-powered mobile computing
Proceedings of the 43rd annual Design Automation Conference
A framework for the automated generation of power-efficient classifiers for embedded sensor nodes
Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Embedded networked sensor systems
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The arrival of copious and cheap flash memory, as well as micromanufacturing techniques, permitted us to generate a pager-sized whole-body activity and knee range of motion monitor-and record these kinematics continuously at 32 Hz for two days on a single AA battery. Thus, we report here data from a healthy convenience sample of 5 males and 5 females, and 3 women and 7 men who had total knee replacements (TKR) 25+4 mo previously. Prior to our project, TKRs, artificial (transfemoral) limbs, airline seats, and other ergonomic knee-motion based designs were based on simulated motion lab studies. These latter indicated that \le 105^o knee flexion was sufficient to accommodate most activities; recently, however, TKR manufacturers began supplying "high flexion" knees that permit \ge 150^o knee flexion. Our data show that healthy Caucasian health care workers rarely employ \ge 120^o knee flexion, nor do Caucasians even with high flexion TKRs-even outside the lab environment.