介助動作中の腰部高さの変化の推定値の提示

抄録

Various nursing care motions are conducted by nursing care givers. Some of them should be done with proper postures, because doing such nurcing care motions with improper posture can cause physical burdens for care givers. For example, a caregiver is required to crouch when the caregiver assists a trancefer motion of a patient. If the caregiver does not croutch enough, it is expected that the caregiver is notified about the improper posture for correcting the improper posture; the caregiver can know its own improper posture, and it may prevent the physical burden. In this study, an estimation method of a caregiver’s back height from the plantar pressure distributions was proposed. Experiments were conducted for evaluation of the proposed method.