Falls are unintentional: Studying simulations is a waste of faking time:

Journal of Rehabilitation and Assistive Technologies Engineering

EmmaStack¹ 

关键词: Age in place;    assessment physiotherapy;    posture analysis;    rehabilitation;    remote sensing;    sensor design;    sensors/sensor applications;   

DOI  :  10.1177/2055668317732945

学科分类：工程和技术（综合）

来源: Sage Journals

【 摘 要 】

Researchers tend to agree that falls are, by definition, unintentional and that sensor algorithms (the processes that allows a computer program to identify a fall among data from sensors) perform poorly when attempting to detect falls ‘in the wild’ (a phrase some scientists use to mean ‘in reality’). Algorithm development has been reliant on simulation, i.e. asking actors to throw themselves intentionally to the ground. This is unusual (no one studies faked coughs or headaches) and uninformative (no one can intend the unintentional). Researchers would increase their chances of detecting ‘real’ falls in ‘the real world’ by studying the behaviour of fallers, however, vulnerable, before, during and after the event: the literature on the circumstances of falling is more informative than any number of faked approximations. A complimentary knowledge base (in falls, sensors and/or signals) enables multidisciplinary teams of clinicians, engineers and computer scientists to tackle fall detection and aim for fall p...

【 授权许可】

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