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http://dx.doi.org/10.9718/JBER.2009.30.5.381

Ingress/ Egress of Older Drivers Part 1: Analysis of Motion Characteristics  

Choi, W.J. (Department of Mechanical Engineering, Hongik Graduate School)
Sha, S.J. (INRETS-UCBL)
Choi, H.Y. (Department of Mechanical and System Design Engineering, Hongik University)
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Journal of Biomedical Engineering Research / v.30, no.5, 2009 , pp. 381-392 More about this Journal
Abstract
Due to the aging effect, older people have relatively weaker muscular performance, less range of motion in the joint articulation, and the lower sense of equilibrium than younger people. These factors attribute to their slow and clumsy ingress/egress motion. In order to analyze ingress/egress motion strategy of the elderly, healthy thirty 65 or more years old volunteers were recruited. The health condition of the each volunteer was verified by the medical checkup and also their physical capabilities were quantified by six fitness tests. Through the video analysis, older driver's ingress/egress motion strategies were classified and statistically investigated. For a comparison purpose, another thirty young volunteers also participated in the same test protocol and their ingress/egress motion strategies were also included in the statistical analysis.
Keywords
Ingress/Egress; Elderly; motion characteristics;
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