Less Contact: Heart-rate detection without even touching the user

Abstract: Heart-rate sensing is very important. Whereas there are different methods and commercial products available they all have common faith: the user has to mount some piece of sensor to his body. This paper provides a case study on how micro-impulse radar (MIR) can be used to sense heartrate in a contact-free manner. With a sequence of tests the robustness of radar to different placements and even distances from the subject is shown. Since MIR is also cheap and power-efficient this paper suggests heart-rate sensing through radar as a promising approach.

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Bibtex Record

@inproceedings{iswc04_radar,
  title =        {{Less Contact: Heart-rate detection without even touching the user}},
  author =       {Michahelles, Florian and Wicki, Ramon and Schiele, Bernt},
  year =         {2004},
  booktitle =    { Eighth IEEE International Symposium on Wearable Computers Conference},
  address =      {Arlington, USA},
  month = {October}
}