Inertial measurement data from loose clothing worn on the lower body during everyday activities

Jayasinghe, U., Hwang, F. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3243-3869 and Harwin, W. S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3928-3381 (2023) Inertial measurement data from loose clothing worn on the lower body during everyday activities. Scientific Data, 10 (1). 709. ISSN 2052-4463 doi: 10.1038/s41597-023-02567-4

Abstract/Summary

Embedding sensors into clothing is promising as a way for people to wear multiple sensors easily, for applications such as long-term activity monitoring. To our knowledge, this is the first published dataset collected from sensors in loose clothing. 6 Inertial Measurement Units (IMUs) were configured as a ‘sensor string’ and attached to casual trousers such that there were three sensors on each leg near the waist, thigh, and ankle/lower-shank. Participants also wore an Actigraph accelerometer on their dominant wrist. The dataset consists of 15 participant-days worth of data collected from 5 healthy adults (age range: 28 - 48 years, 3 males and 2 females). Each participant wore the clothes with sensors for between 1 and 4 days for 5-8 hours per day. Each day, data were collected while participants completed a fixed circuit of activities (with a video ground truth) as well as during free day-to-day activities (with a diary). This dataset can be used to analyse human movements, transitional movements, and postural changes based on a range of features.

Item Type	Article
URI	https://reading-clone.eprints-hosting.org/id/eprint/113468
Identification Number/DOI	10.1038/s41597-023-02567-4
Refereed	Yes
Divisions	Life Sciences > School of Biological Sciences > Department of Bio-Engineering
Publisher	Nature Publishing Group
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