Development of a Wearable Instrumented Vest for Posture Monitoring and System Usability Verification Based on the Technology Acceptance Model

Body posture and activity are important indices for assessing health and quality of life, especially for elderly people. Therefore, an easily wearable device or instrumented garment would be valuable for monitoring elderly people's postures and activities to facilitate healthy aging. In particu...

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Published in:Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) Switzerland), 2016-12, Vol.16 (12), p.2172-2172
Main Authors: Lin, Wen-Yen, Chou, Wen-Cheng, Tsai, Tsai-Hsuan, Lin, Chung-Chih, Lee, Ming-Yih
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
accelerometer
Acceptance
Devices
Elderly people
Emergency warning programs
Equipment Design
Health
Humans
Models, Theoretical
Monitoring
Monitoring, Ambulatory
motion sensing
Older people
Parkinson Disease - diagnosis
Posture
Posture - physiology
posture monitoring
Quality assessment
Reproducibility of Results
Signal Processing, Computer-Assisted
Technology
Technology Acceptance Model
technology acceptance model (TAM)
Technology utilization
Textiles
tilt angle
Usability
Vests
Wearable
Wearable Electronic Devices
Wearable technology
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Summary:Body posture and activity are important indices for assessing health and quality of life, especially for elderly people. Therefore, an easily wearable device or instrumented garment would be valuable for monitoring elderly people's postures and activities to facilitate healthy aging. In particular, such devices should be accepted by elderly people so that they are willing to wear it all the time. This paper presents the design and development of a novel, textile-based, intelligent wearable vest for real-time posture monitoring and emergency warnings. The vest provides a highly portable and low-cost solution that can be used both indoors and outdoors in order to provide long-term care at home, including health promotion, healthy aging assessments, and health abnormality alerts. The usability of the system was verified using a technology acceptance model-based study of 50 elderly people. The results indicated that although elderly people are anxious about some newly developed wearable technologies, they look forward to wearing this instrumented posture-monitoring vest in the future.
ISSN:1424-8220
1424-8220
DOI:10.3390/s16122172