Measuring Foot Pronation Using RFID Sensor Networks

Varick Erickson, Ankur U. Kamthe, Alberto E. Cerpa

Abstract

Running efficiency is an important factor to consider in order to avoid injury. In particular, foot pronation, the angle of the foot as it hits the ground, is a common cause for many types of injuries among runners. Though pronation is common, diagnosing pronation is difficult and imprecise. Currently there is no method of diagnosis which can quantify the severity of pronation. In this paper we propose using WISP (Wireless Identification and Sensing Platform) sensors to help identify and quantify foot pronation.

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Varick Erickson, Ankur U. Kamthe, Alberto E. Cerpa, "Measuring Foot Pronation Using RFID Sensor Networks," Proceedings of the Seventh ACM Conference on Embedded Network Sensor Systems (SenSys 2009), pp. 325--326, ACM, Berkeley, CA, USA, November, 2009.

Bibtex

@Conference{Erickson09b,
  author =       "Varick Erickson and Ankur U. Kamthe and Alberto E.
                 Cerpa",
  title =        "Measuring Foot Pronation Using {RFID} Sensor
                 Networks",
  booktitle =    "Proceedings of the Seventh ACM Conference on Embedded
                 Network Sensor Systems (SenSys 2009)",
  year =         "2009",
  pages =        "325--326",
  publisher =    "ACM",
  address =      "Berkeley, CA, USA",
  month =        nov,
  note =         "Runner Up Best Demo Award (2nd out of 37)",
  URL =          "http://www.andes.ucmerced.edu/papers/Erickson09b.pdf",
  cited =        "7",
}

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