An Ecological Studybased on Textile Sensory Platforms to Improve Safety and Well-Being at Work

This paper describes a study performed in the frame of WEARABLES project and reports about preliminary analysis of the results on the activity, HR and breathing rate distribution. Objective of the study was the monitoring of employees' well-being finalized at the investigation on the correlatio...

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Published in2019 41st Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC) Vol. 2019; pp. 1741 - 1744
Main Authors Paradiso, R., Crupi, R., Pacelli, M., Saunder, M., Cuervo, G.M.
Format Conference Proceeding Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published United States IEEE 01.07.2019
Subjects
Biomedical monitoring
Heart rate
Humans
Monitoring
Monitoring, Physiologic
Occupational Health
Occupations
Respiratory Rate
Sensors
Stress
Textiles
Touch
Vehicles
Wearable Electronic Devices
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Summary:This paper describes a study performed in the frame of WEARABLES project and reports about preliminary analysis of the results on the activity, HR and breathing rate distribution. Objective of the study was the monitoring of employees' well-being finalized at the investigation on the correlation between daily working activity and the observed physical parameters. The study has been performed by using sensing textiles, to collect objective work-correlated parameters during daily activity aiming at the acquisition of objective indicators for an improved management of people within teams. Scope of the project was to monitor a sample of 28 volunteers in environmental service delivery (at the Amey's contract with Wolverhampton City Council), for a period of two non-consecutive weeks per volunteer, with a total of 275 data acquisition sessions.
ISSN:1557-170X
1558-4615
DOI:10.1109/EMBC.2019.8856968