Unobtrusive measures in behavioral assessment

Unobtrusive sensing for gait rehabilitation assessment

The physiotherapy exercises for gait rehabilitation are performed by the patient under physiotherapist assistance. During successive physiotherapy sessions the patient motor capabilities is evaluated by the physiotherapist without the usage of instruments and a set of reports are fill manually in order to store the rehabilitation progress based on observed facts. To perform an objective evaluat...

Unobtrusive Assessment of Bipedal Balance Performance

Reduced postural stability are symptoms of many medical conditions. Depending on the conditions, there are training or medication strategies to ameliorate the balance of a subject. After medical treatment (surgery etc.) or in the context of an intervention/recovery strategy, these patients are often assessed in functional gait assessments (FGA). An expert, e.g. a Physio Therapist, can decide ba...

Unobtrusive Mood Assessment for Training Applications

Many tasks are conducted under time and performance constraints, but the mood-congruency of real situations rarely translate to training environments. The ability to perceive affect (emotion and mood states) is essential in understanding how the trainee is reacting to the scenario. This affective data can be used to modify the challenge and flow of scenario or the amount/frequency of support/di...

Unobtrusive assessment of activity patterns associated with mild cognitive impairment.

BACKGROUND Timely detection of early cognitive impairment is difficult. Measures taken in the clinic reflect a single snapshot of performance that might be confounded by the increased variability typical in aging and disease. We evaluated the use of continuous, long-term, and unobtrusive in-home monitoring to assess neurologic function in healthy and cognitively impaired elders. METHODS Fourt...

The concurrent validity of unobtrusive measures of conflict in small isolated groups.