Pressure beneath the foot for older adults using an improved approach
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Paper/Presentation Title | Pressure beneath the foot for older adults using an improved approach |
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Presentation Type | Paper |
Authors | Al-Daffaie, Kadhem (Author), Chong, Albert K. (Author) and Gharineiat, Zahra (Author) |
Journal or Proceedings Title | Proceedings of the 2019 IEEE Symposium on Computer Applications and Industrial Electronics (ISCAIE 2019) |
Number of Pages | 5 |
Year | 2019 |
Place of Publication | United States |
ISBN | 9781538685464 |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.1109/ISCAIE.2019.8743653 |
Web Address (URL) of Paper | https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8743653 |
Web Address (URL) of Conference Proceedings | https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/conhome/8740332/proceeding |
Conference/Event | 9th IEEE Symposium on Computer Applications & Industrial Electronics (ISCAIE 2019) |
Event Details | 9th IEEE Symposium on Computer Applications & Industrial Electronics (ISCAIE 2019) Parent IEEE Symposium on Computer Applications and Industrial Electronics Event Date 27 to end of 28 Apr 2019 Event Location Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia |
Abstract | A new methodology is suggested in this research to investigate some parameters of the pressure beneath the foot of healthy older adults. Using such methodology helps to accomplish human gait analysis in more efficient way. It allows reduction the resources, such as time, cost and efforts, required by the commonly used approaches to conduct human gait analysis. It also helps to achieve more accurate results. We recruit a small number of participants to collect data with higher accuracy for the purpose of reducing the resources, and then combining them with published data to satisfy the sample size conditions. Hence, the final results are computed from the combined data. The targeted parameters are maximum force (MF) and pressure time integral (PTI) from four regions of the human plantar, namely whole foot, rearfoot, midfoot and forefoot. Five healthy older adults were recruited to preform two sessions of trials by using 300E F-scan insole sensors. During each session, twelve walks by each participant along a 10-m walkway at a laboratory setting were recorded after wearing appropriate sized shoes with the sensors inserted inside them. We suggested the so-called mean of three steps protocol to extract the higher accurate self-captured data. To obtain the final results from the combined data, we use the so-called weighted mean and standard error. Our findings showed that the new approach comparing to the most commonly used ones leads to more accurate results using less resources. It produced smaller SE’s in all of the eight parameters studied. For the maximum force and pressure time integral, the results of this research indicated that: 1) the whole foot had the biggest values 2) the forefoot region had the second largest values and 3) the regions of rearfoot and the midfoot had the lowest last two values in decreasing order. |
Keywords | alternative statistical methodology, pressure beneaththe foot, maximum force, pressure time integral, datacombining, data weighting |
Contains Sensitive Content | Does not contain sensitive content |
ANZSRC Field of Research 2020 | 490501. Applied statistics |
420701. Biomechanics | |
Public Notes | Files associated with this item cannot be displayed due to copyright restrictions. |
Byline Affiliations | School of Agricultural, Computational and Environmental Sciences |
School of Civil Engineering and Surveying | |
Institution of Origin | University of Southern Queensland |
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