GaitAssist: A wearable assistant for gait training and rehabilitation in Parkinson's disease

Sinziana Mazilu; Ulf Blanke; Michael Hardegger; Gerhard Troster; Eran Gazit; Moran Dorfman; Jeffrey M. Hausdorff

doi:10.1109/PerComW.2014.6815179

GaitAssist: A wearable assistant for gait training and rehabilitation in Parkinson's disease

Sinziana Mazilu, Ulf Blanke, Michael Hardegger, Gerhard Troster, Eran Gazit, Moran Dorfman, Jeffrey M. Hausdorff

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Abstract

Many patients with Parkinson's disease suffer from short periods during which they cannot continue walking, the so-called freezing of gait. Patients can learn to use rhythmic auditory sounds as support during these episodes. We developed GaitAssist, a personalized wearable system for freezing of gait support, that enables training in unsupervised environments. GaitAssist detects freezing episodes from ankle-mounted motion sensors, which stream data via Bluetooth to an Android phone. In response, the system plays a rhythmic auditory sound that adapts to the patient's regular gait speed. While GaitAssist can be used as a daily-life assistant, it also provides support for three types of training and rehabilitation exercises. The user can create personalized training sessions by adjusting the exercise and feedback parameters.

Original language	English
Pages	135-137
Number of pages	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/PerComW.2014.6815179
State	Published - 1 Jan 2014
Externally published	Yes
Event	2014 IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communication Workshops, PERCOM WORKSHOPS 2014 - Budapest, Hungary Duration: 24 Mar 2014 → 28 Mar 2014

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Conference	2014 IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communication Workshops, PERCOM WORKSHOPS 2014
Country/Territory	Hungary
City	Budapest
Period	24/03/14 → 28/03/14

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Mazilu, S., Blanke, U., Hardegger, M., Troster, G., Gazit, E., Dorfman, M., & Hausdorff, J. M. (2014). GaitAssist: A wearable assistant for gait training and rehabilitation in Parkinson's disease. 135-137. Paper presented at 2014 IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communication Workshops, PERCOM WORKSHOPS 2014, Budapest, Hungary. https://doi.org/10.1109/PerComW.2014.6815179

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GaitAssist: A wearable assistant for gait training and rehabilitation in Parkinson's disease. / Mazilu, Sinziana; Blanke, Ulf; Hardegger, Michael et al.
2014. 135-137 Paper presented at 2014 IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communication Workshops, PERCOM WORKSHOPS 2014, Budapest, Hungary.

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