Authors:
Katja Orlowski
1
;
Harald Loose
1
;
Karen Otte
1
;
Sebastian Mansow-Model
2
and
Angelina Thiers
1
Affiliations:
1
Brandenburg University of Applied Sciences, Germany
;
2
gfnmediber GmbH, Germany
Keyword(s):
Motion and gait analysis, Kinect and SHIMMER sensors, Health applications (Geriatrics/Tinetti).
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Applications and Services
;
Biomedical Engineering
;
Biomedical Signal Processing
;
Computer Vision, Visualization and Computer Graphics
;
Devices
;
Health Information Systems
;
Human-Computer Interaction
;
Medical Image Detection, Acquisition, Analysis and Processing
;
Physiological Computing Systems
;
Wearable Sensors and Systems
Abstract:
Motion capture systems based on different physical principles and sensor elements become moderate in price and mobile in application. New application fields have been developed. Motion capture and analysis is used in physiotherapy, geriatrics or public sports. In this paper three different types of motion capture systems are investigated with respect to their adaptability to health applications: the OptiTrack-Motion Capture System, the Kinect of Microsoft and SHIMMER sensors. Human gait was measured using all three systems and the obtained data were compared. In further tests the gait of volunteers and patients were captured with Kinect and two scores evaluating their motion capability were calculated.