Wearable feedback systems for rehabilitation
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Sung, Michael; Marci, Carl; Pentland, Alex Paul
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In this paper we describe LiveNet, a flexible wearable platform intended for long-term ambulatory health monitoring with real-time data streaming and context classification. Based on the MIT Wearable Computing Group's distributed mobile system architecture, LiveNet is a stable, accessible system that combines inexpensive, commodity hardware; a flexible sensor/peripheral interconnection bus; and a powerful, light-weight distributed sensing, classification, and inter-process communications software architecture to facilitate the development of distributed real-time multi-modal and context-aware applications. LiveNet is able to continuously monitor a wide range of physiological signals together with the user's activity and context, to develop a personalized, data-rich health profile of a user over time. We demonstrate the power and functionality of this platform by describing a number of health monitoring applications using the LiveNet system in a variety of clinical studies that are underway. Initial evaluations of these pilot experiments demonstrate the potential of using the LiveNet system for real-world applications in rehabilitation medicine.
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2005-06Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Media LaboratoryJournal
Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation
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BioMed Central Ltd
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Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation. 2005 Jun 29;2(1):17
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1743-0003