Host: The Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers
Name : [in Japanese]
Date : June 01, 2022 - June 04, 2022
The number of elderly product accidents is increasing. Conventionally, typical causes of main accidents have been classified as misuse of the product or user carelessness. However, some of the accidents stem from the lack of adequate body holding functions of daily consumer products. The purpose of this study is to develop a system that enables visualization of body holding force and location in everyday living space. The developed visualization system consists of RGB-D cameras and a wearable force sensor. The system verification experiment was conducted in a total of 5 rooms at the houses of 2 subjects (75 year-old female and 84 year-old male). Experimental results show that the development system is useful for visualizing body holding during taking force behavior of holding their surrounding items, when standing up from a sitting position, getting up from lying down, and so on.
