Journal
ASSISTIVE TECHNOLOGY
Volume 28, Issue 2, Pages 105-114Publisher
TAYLOR & FRANCIS INC
DOI: 10.1080/10400435.2015.1095810
Keywords
activity level; Android; cloud computing; Google App Engine; mobile computing; wheelchair maneuver
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- National Institute of General Medical Sciences of National Institutes of Health [8P20GM103447]
- Oklahoma Center for Advancement of Science and Technology (OCAST) [HR12-036]
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The purpose of this pilot study was to provide a new approach for capturing and analyzing wheelchair maneuvering data, which are critical for evaluating wheelchair users' activity levels. We proposed a mobile-cloud (MC) system, which incorporated the emerging mobile and cloud computing technologies. The MC system employed smartphone sensors to collect wheelchair maneuvering data and transmit them to the cloud for storage and analysis. A k-nearest neighbor (KNN) machine-learning algorithm was developed to mitigate the impact of sensor noise and recognize wheelchair maneuvering patterns. We conducted 30 trials in an indoor setting, where each trial contained 10 bouts (i.e., periods of continuous wheelchair movement). We also verified our approach in a different building. Different from existing approaches that require sensors to be attached to wheelchairs' wheels, we placed the smartphone into a smartphone holder attached to the wheelchair. Experimental results illustrate that our approach correctly identified all 300 bouts. Compared to existing approaches, our approach was easier to use while achieving similar accuracy in analyzing the accumulated movement time and maximum period of continuous movement (p>0.8). Overall, the MC system provided a feasible way to ease the data collection process and generated accurate analysis results for evaluating activity levels.
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