Laboratory Evaluation of Low-Cost Wearable Sensors for Measuring Head Impacts in Sports.

Advances in low-cost wearable head impact sensor technology provide potential benefits regarding sports safety for both consumers and researchers. However, previous laboratory evaluations are not directly comparable and do not incorporate test conditions representative of unhelmeted impacts. This st...

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Publicado en:Journal of Applied Biomechanics Vol. 34; no. 4; pp. 320 - 327
Autores principales: Tyson, Abigail M., Duma, Stefan M., Rowson, Steven
Formato: pictorial research tables/charts Journal Article
Publicado: Human Kinetics Publishers, Inc. Aug2018
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          Tyson, Abigail M.
          Duma, Stefan M.
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          Laboratories
          Costs and Cost Analysis
          Wearable Sensors Economics
          Athletic Injuries Diagnosis
          Head Injuries Diagnosis
          Human
          Software
          Organizations, Nonprofit
          Head Protective Devices
          Kinematics
          Validity
          Linear Regression
          Time Factors
          Sampling Error
      ab: Advances in low-cost wearable head impact sensor technology provide potential benefits regarding sports safety for both consumers and researchers. However, previous laboratory evaluations are not directly comparable and do not incorporate test conditions representative of unhelmeted impacts. This study addresses those limitations. The xPatch by X2 Biosystems and the SIM-G by Triax Technologies were placed on a National Operating Committee on Standards for Athletic Equipment (NOCSAE) headform with a Hybrid III neck which underwent impact tests using a pendulum. Impact conditions included helmeted, padded impactor to bare head, and rigid impactor to bare head to represent long- and short-duration impacts seen in helmeted and unhelmeted sports. The wearable sensors were evaluated on their kinematic accuracy by comparing results to reference sensors located at the headform center of gravity. Statistical tests for equivalence were performed on the slope of the linear regression between wearable sensors and reference. The xPatch gave equivalent measurements to the reference in select longer-duration impacts, whereas the SIM-G had large variance leading to no equivalence. For the short-duration impacts, both wearable sensors underpredicted the reference. This error can be improved with increases in sampling rate from 1 to 1.5 kHz. Follow-up evaluations should be performed on the field to identify error in vivo.
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