A Cloud-Based WEB Platform for Fall Risk Assessment Using a Therapist-Centered User Interface Which Enables Patients’ Tracking Remotely

This work describes a system to help in the remote assessment of fall risk in elderly people. A portable hardware system equipped with an RGB-D sensor is used for motion capture. A set of anonymous frames, representing the process of skeleton tracking, and a collection of sequences of interesting fe...

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Published in:Electronics (Basel) 2024-06, Vol.13 (11), p.2220
Main Authors: Blasco-García, Jesús Damián, Pavón-Pulido, Nieves, López-Riquelme, Juan Antonio, Roldán-Ruiz, Ana María, Feliu-Batlle, Jorge Juan
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Aged
Balance
Caregivers
Cloud computing
Dashboards
Design
Falls
Falls (Accidents)
Frailty
Gait
Internet software
Motion capture
Older people
Patients
Quality of life
Risk assessment
Risk factors
Sensors
Software
Standard of care
Therapists
Tracking
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Summary:This work describes a system to help in the remote assessment of fall risk in elderly people. A portable hardware system equipped with an RGB-D sensor is used for motion capture. A set of anonymous frames, representing the process of skeleton tracking, and a collection of sequences of interesting features, obtained from body landmark evaluations through time, are stored in the Cloud for each patient. A WEB dashboard allows for tailored tests to be designed, which include the typical items within well-known fall risk evaluation tests in the literature. Such a dashboard helps therapists to evaluate each item from the analysis and observation of the sequences and the 3D representation of the body through time, and to compare the results of tests carried out in different moments, checking on the evolution of the fall risk. The software architecture that implements the system allows the information to be stored in a safe manner and preserves patients’ privacy. The paper shows the obtained results after testing an early prototype of the system, a discussion about its advantages, and the current limitations from the Human–Computer Interaction point of view, and a plan to deploy and evaluate the system from the usability perspective in the near future.
ISSN:2079-9292
2079-9292
DOI:10.3390/electronics13112220