Automated Rehabilitation Exercises Assessment in Wearable Sensor Data Streams

This work stems from the Italian project H-CIM (Health-Care Intelligent Monitoring), aimed at developing a wearable sensor data streams based home-monitoring system to support self-rehabilitation of elderly outpatients. Different from the pervasive data stream applications, which are always accompanied by the evolution of unstable class concepts, this project requires stable standard and personalized rehabilitation exercises patterns be provided to assess outpatient's self-therapy progress at home. In this designed pipeline, the representation sequences of the personal standard rehabilitation exercises in wearable sensor streams is therefore first benchmarked, then an assessment system which integrates multistage data processing and analyzing is proposed to enable elders to manage their own rehabilitation progress properly. The system proved to be an effective tool for supporting compliance monitoring and personalized self-rehabilitation; it is currently under further development within the Italian project Home-IoT, with the aim to become a more general data stream analytics service, not only devoted to rehabilitation exercises assessment.