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A Capacitive Sensing Gym Mat For Exercise Classification & Tracking, Adam Goertz
A Capacitive Sensing Gym Mat For Exercise Classification & Tracking, Adam Goertz
Computer Science and Computer Engineering Undergraduate Honors Theses
Effective monitoring of adherence to at-home exercise programs as prescribed by physiotherapy protocols is essential to promoting effective rehabilitation and therapeutic interventions. Currently physical therapists and other health professionals have no reliable means of tracking patients' progress in or adherence to a prescribed regimen. This project aims to develop a low-cost, privacy-conserving means of monitoring at-home exercise activity using a gym mat equipped with an array of capacitive sensors. The ability of the mat to classify different types of exercises was evaluated using several machine learning models trained on an existing dataset of physiotherapy exercises.