Presenters discuss results from two research projects funded by BWC’s Ohio Occupational Safety and Health Research Program.
Presenters from project eight demonstrate the use of a Microsoft Kinect sensor and smart watches to monitor movement of health-care workers for bedside activities. They describe and demonstrate components of a safe movement program that a center for older adults implemented. In addition, they present preliminary outcomes of the program. This is relevant to administrators of skilled nursing or other health-care facilities, ergonomists and health-care workers.
In project nine, the presenter discusses a wearable computer system design that records lower extremities motion and underfoot planar pressure distribution. This wearable design has the potential to enable objective identification of risk factors, such as slip, trip and fall events.