@inproceedings{80657aa160f8489b97be9553568642cb,
title = "Characteristics of a piezo-resistive fabric stretch sensor glove for home-monitoring of rheumatoid arthritis",
abstract = "This paper presents a potential connected health solution for home-monitoring of Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA) patients. About one percent of the world's population is affected by RA and to maintain their quality of life these people must perform exercises to maintain function in their joints. Home monitoring is a key tool in learning about the effects and treatments these diseases. This paper compares an in house developed sensor glove based on piezo-resistive fabrics with a motion capture VICON Nexus system. The results from these experiments deem the glove to be a suitable mode of measuring the hand movements while being cheap to manufacture. Wearable fabric sensors have potential to become more accessible than high spec camera systems and expensive commercially available motion capture gloves. They have the advantage of being low-cost and smart fabric sensors are more comfortable to wear compared to systems based on conventional metallic components.",
keywords = "Piezo-resistive fabric, Rheumatoid Arthritis, connected health, home monitoring, smart fabrics, wearable sensors",
author = "Conor Oquigley and Mathilde Sabourin and Shirley Coyle and James Connolly and Joan Condall and Kevin Curran and Brian Corcoran and Dermot Diamond",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2014 IEEE.; 11th International Conference on Wearable and Implantable Body Sensor Networks Workshops, BSN Workshops 2014 ; Conference date: 16-06-2014 Through 19-06-2014",
year = "2014",
month = dec,
day = "1",
doi = "10.1109/BSN.Workshops.2014.15",
language = "English",
series = "Proceedings - 11th International Conference on Wearable and Implantable Body Sensor Networks Workshops, BSN Workshops 2014",
publisher = "Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.",
pages = "23--26",
booktitle = "Proceedings - 11th International Conference on Wearable and Implantable Body Sensor Networks Workshops, BSN Workshops 2014",
}