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Age-sensitive differences in single and dual walking tasks from footprint floor sensor data

  • University of Manchester

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Abstract

Gait can provide insights of executive function decline. We present experiments and methodology for analysing age-sensitive differences in changes of walking patterns on 3 volunteers from three age groups: a young adult, an adult and a mature adult, by using an original footprint imaging floor sensor. The effect of cognitive load tasks in spatio-temporal walking patterns of the volunteers is captured in the experiments. Classification models based on Support Vector Machines (SVM) are applied to raw gait sensor data activities, including single tasks, such as normal and fast walk, as well as dual tasks. For single tasks, we report classifications with a top F-score of 93.36 ± 5.56. Competitive classification performance was obtained for the fine-grained walking variability in the dual task experiments.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationIEEE SENSORS 2017 - Conference Proceedings
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages1-3
Number of pages3
ISBN (Electronic)9781509010127
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 21 Dec 2017
Externally publishedYes
Event16th IEEE SENSORS Conference, ICSENS 2017 - Glasgow, United Kingdom
Duration: 30 Oct 20171 Nov 2017

Publication series

NameProceedings of IEEE Sensors
Volume2017-December
ISSN (Print)1930-0395
ISSN (Electronic)2168-9229

Conference

Conference16th IEEE SENSORS Conference, ICSENS 2017
Country/TerritoryUnited Kingdom
CityGlasgow
Period30/10/171/11/17

Keywords

  • dual task analysis
  • floor sensor system
  • machine learning
  • spatio-temporal gait analysis

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