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AHFE 2017: Advances in Physical Ergonomics and Human Factors pp 172–183Cite as

Assessment of Human Balance Due to Recoil Destabilization Using Smart Clothing

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Several studies focused on the importance of postural balance as a key for success of shooting performance and training. The most destabilizing factor is recoil that is the reaction effect produced on humans by a shooting task. To assess the postural control during a shooting task, stabilometry (posturography) is the golden standard technique. Force and pressure plate are the main traditional instruments. Today, smart clothing provides a method to monitor in real time mechanical, environmental, and physiological parameters in an ecological and in non-intrusive approach. Smart clothing (t-shirt) based on body-worn accelerometers (trunk accelerometers) was compared with posturographical by a pressure plate obtained during each shooting trial. The smart t-shirt revealed to be an innovative tool to assess human balance due to recoil destabilization.

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    Sofia Scataglini, Paolo Perego & Giuseppe Andreoni

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Scataglini, S., Truyen, E., Perego, P., Gallant, J., Van Tiggelen, D., Andreoni, G. (2018). Assessment of Human Balance Due to Recoil Destabilization Using Smart Clothing. In: Goonetilleke, R., Karwowski, W. (eds) Advances in Physical Ergonomics and Human Factors. AHFE 2017. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 602. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-60825-9_20

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