Sentences with phrase «measures body movement»

They were also monitored for two weeks with a device worn on the wrist that measures body movement.

Placed on users» bedside tables, the device incorporates radio frequency sensors to measure body movement, breathing and heartbeat, Iwata said today at an investor presentation.

The jacket is a prototype drone controller kitted out with sensors that measure body movement.

Not exact matches

For The Revenant screenings, audience members wore wristbands that measured physiological responses — heart rate variability, skin conductance (sweat, basically), body temperature, movement, and noise — throughout the film.

We counted hand gestures and measured vocal variety, smiling and body movement.

The researchers used a room calorimeter, a 25m3 furnished chamber that measures movement, oxygen, carbon dioxide, temperature and pressure, to assess how dietary changes affected energy expenditure and the way nutrients were processed by the body.

The ability to accurately measure tiny displacements of microscopic bodies has applications in sensing trace amounts of hazardous biological or chemical agents, perfecting the movement of miniature robots, accurately deploying airbags and detecting extremely weak sound waves traveling through thin films.

Patients with sleep disorders are often evaluated by polysomnography (PSG), which measures an assortment of the body's activity during sleep, including brain activity, eye movement, and heart rhythms.

Bishop and colleagues examined locomotion in 12 species of ground - dwelling birds, ranging in body mass from 45g to 80 kg, as the birds moved at various speeds along enclosed racetracks while cameras recorded their movements and forceplates measured the forces their feet exerted upon the ground.

During 30 minutes, the behaviour of the bees was observed to measure the time of grooming (performing grooming movements) and to detect how grooming was performed and which body parts were groomed and which not.

It's very hard to put a number of calories, since the body can do lots of different things to increase or decrease its energy output: if you eat less, you may be able to maintain the same workout and even the same number of steps, but your spontaneous movements (fidgeting, getting up for a folder, etc.) may drop dramatically, reducing your caloric output despite your best attempts to measure it.

For example, Inaba et al. (2013) measured movements and ground reaction forces while subjects performed leftward side - steps for nine different distances from 20 — 100 % of their body height.

In addition to chiropractic care, functional movement care often includes massage therapy, postural rehabilitation, whole body vibration, laser therapy, custom orthotics and other supportive measures.

The pilot study also reported that the difference in peripheral arterial blood flow (the movement of blood to different parts of the body, as measured by PAT), a predictor of vascular health, after eating the hamburger meal compared to the hamburger - fresh avocado meal was approaching statistical significance...

There's still the problem of the casino's ridiculously high - tech security system The Greco (named after its creator, played by Julian Sands), which measures eye - dilation, body movement, and other such things to tell if people are cheating.

Measures recorded on the dummy's head, neck, and chest indicate low risk of serious injury in these areas of the body, but the poorly controlled movement of the dummy during the impact may have contributed to high forces on its right leg.

Components of the DDC system include four dampers with characteristic map control, a gateway control module that serves as an interface to the CAN data networks in the Passat CC, three sensors for measuring wheel displacements, three sensors for measuring movements of the car body and one control module for suspension control.

Dogs communicate mainly using their body language, so the device has behaviour - detecting sensors that pick up their movement as well as physiological sensors that measure their heart rate and body temperature.

Late Nintendo president Satora Iwata previously explained «Inside the QOL Sensor is a non-contact radio frequency sensor, which measures such things as the movements of your body, breathing and heartbeat, all without physically touching your body».

As a material «insensibl [e] to contradiction», wax's ability to take imprints of the unique landmarks of the skin connects it to strategies of surveillance and data collection that measure visual, behavioural or chemical characteristics, connecting Hershman Leeson's hotel tableau to her later invented character.14 The artist described Roberta Breitmore as «my flippant effigy» and «a dark, shadowy, animus cadaver».15 Similarly, The Dante Hotel was for the artist simultaneously a scene of death and «a means of survival».16 As such Thek's and Hershman Leeson's volatile effigies connect two very different bodies of work and different political movements — the counterculture, gay rights, women's liberation — to make visible the restraints placed on the subject.

«This new body of work — consisting of 7 large oil paintings measuring up to 6 feet in height, and a series of drawings — is engaged in an exploration and development of various repeated patterns in order to create movement, rhythm, and harmony.»