Inertial measurement data from loose clothing worn on the lower body during everyday activities

Sci Data. 2023 Oct 17;10(1):709. doi: 10.1038/s41597-023-02567-4.

Abstract

Embedding sensors into clothing is promising as a way for people to wear multiple sensors easily, for applications such as long-term activity monitoring. To our knowledge, this is the first published dataset collected from sensors in loose clothing. 6 Inertial Measurement Units (IMUs) were configured as a 'sensor string' and attached to casual trousers such that there were three sensors on each leg near the waist, thigh, and ankle/lower-shank. Participants also wore an Actigraph accelerometer on their dominant wrist. The dataset consists of 15 participant-days worth of data collected from 5 healthy adults (age range: 28-48 years, 3 males and 2 females). Each participant wore the clothes with sensors for between 1 and 4 days for 5-8 hours per day. Each day, data were collected while participants completed a fixed circuit of activities (with a video ground truth) as well as during free day-to-day activities (with a diary). This dataset can be used to analyse human movements, transitional movements, and postural changes based on a range of features.

Publication types

  • Dataset

MeSH terms

  • Adult
  • Algorithms
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Leg*
  • Male
  • Middle Aged
  • Movement*
  • Wrist