A Mobile Acquisition System and a Method for Hips Sway Fluency Assessment

A Mobile Acquisition System and a Method for Hips Sway Fluency Assessment

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Copyholders The present contribution focuses on the estimation of the Cartesian kinematic jerk of the hips’ orientation during a full three-dimensional movement in the context of enabling eHealth applications of advanced mathematical signal analysis.The kinematic jerk index is estimated on the basis of gyroscopic signals acquired offline through a smartphone.A specific free mobile application is used to acquire the gyroscopic signals and to transmit them to a personal computer through a wireless network.The personal computer elaborates the acquired data and returns the kinematic jerk index associated with a motor task.A comparison of the kinematic jerk index value on a number of data sets confirms that such index can be used to evaluate the fluency of hips orientation during motion.

The present research FACE PEEL confirms that the proposed gyroscopic data acquisition/processing setup constitutes an inexpensive and portable solution to motion fluency analysis.The proposed data-acquisition and data-processing setup may serve as a supporting eHealth technology in clinical bio-mechanics as well as in sports science.