Catching Seniors Before They Fall: Part II

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High-tech Fall-Risk Metrics and Technologies We often think of looking into the future like taking a peek at Christmas gifts before the big day – sometimes it’s just better not to know. When it comes to senior care, however, a crystal ball could come in handy, helping to prevent future falls. In our last blog,…

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Catching Seniors Before They Fall: Part I

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Tools for Fall-Risk Assessment Almost every fall-risk research paper begins by underscoring how frequent falling occurs – more than 1 in 4 individuals over the age of 65 fall every year, a fifth of which lead to injury and too often death. It’s surprising, then, that there have been a great many approaches proposed to…

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10 Things To Do with Pressure-Sensitive Floor

Gravity is always dragging us down. To keep on top of it, we apply pressure to the surfaces we come into contact with, usually through the soles of our feet. Although short pressure sensitive pedways and force plates have been around for a while, pressure-sensitive flooring is a relatively young concept and opens up some…

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Stepscan Announces StepTracker

New Multi Subject Tracking API For Use in Military Training Applications – StepTracker™ Stepscan Technologies Inc. announces the launch of StepTracker™, a new multi-subject tracking API for use in military training and simulation. StepTracker™ addresses the unmet need of identifying and tracking individual war fighters as they move through shoot house/ training facilities while engaged…

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Dr Connors in Computer Vision & Image Understanding

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Biometric Recognition by Gait: A Survey of Modalities and Features CHARLOTTETOWN, PE  – Dr. Patrick Connor, Research and Development Lead at Stepscan Technologies, is published this month in the online journal Computer Vision and Image Understanding. Dr. Connor’s paper, ‘Biometric Recognition by Gait: A Survey of Modalities and Features’, was a collaboration with biometrics expert…

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