List of works - Stephen N Robinovitch

A comparison of accuracy of fall detection algorithms (threshold-based vs. machine learning) using waist-mounted tri-axial accelerometer signals from a comprehensive set of falls and non-fall trials.

scientific article published on 22 April 2016

A tongue force measurement system for the assessment of oral-phase swallowing disorders.

scientific article

Accuracy of Kinovea software in estimating body segment movements during falls captured on standard video: Effects of fall direction, camera perspective and video calibration technique

scientific article published in 2021

Accuracy of a wavelet-based fall detection approach using an accelerometer and a barometric pressure sensor.

scientific article published in July 2017

Age differences in energy absorption in the upper extremity during a descent movement: implications for arresting a fall

scientific article

Age-related changes in dynamic compressive properties of trochanteric soft tissues over the hip.

scientific article published on 16 December 2014

Agreement between video footage and fall incident reports on the circumstances of falls in long-term care.

scientific article published on 7 February 2015

An Analysis of the Accuracy of Wearable Sensors for Classifying the Causes of Falls in Humans ⬇️

scientific article published on August 22, 2011

An analysis of the effect of lower extremity strength on impact severity during a backward fall.

scientific article published in December 2001

An educational video to promote multi-factorial approaches for fall and injury prevention in long-term care facilities

scientific article

Association between Sedentary Behaviour and Physical, Cognitive, and Psychosocial Status among Older Adults in Assisted Living

scientific article

Autonomy, choice, patient-centered care, and hip protectors: the experience of residents and staff in long-term care

scientific article published on 11 June 2013

Biomechanical and physiological age differences in a simulated forward fall on outstretched hands in women.

scientific article

Biometric system for measuring gait and fall characteristics captured on video.

scientific article published in July 2014

Cardiovascular responses to orthostasis and their association with falls in older adults

scientific article published on 24 December 2015

Characterizing the effective stiffness of the pelvis during sideways falls on the hip.

scientific article published on 15 April 2010

Clinical Risk Factors for Head Impact During Falls in Older Adults: A Prospective Cohort Study in Long-Term Care.

scientific article published on 6 September 2016

Common protective movements govern unexpected falls from standing height.

scientific article published in January 1998

Compliant flooring to prevent fall-related injuries in older adults: A scoping review of biomechanical efficacy, clinical effectiveness, cost-effectiveness, and workplace safety.

scientific article

Development of a standard fall data format for signals from body-worn sensors : the FARSEEING consensus.

scientific article

Development of a stick-on hip protector: A multiple methods study to improve hip protector design for older adults in the acute care environment

scientific article published on 01 January 2019

Discriminative Latent Models for Recognizing Contextual Group Activities ⬇️

scientific article published on August 1, 2012

Distinguishing near-falls from daily activities with wearable accelerometers and gyroscopes using Support Vector Machines.

scientific article published in January 2012

Distinguishing the causes of falls in humans using an array of wearable tri-axial accelerometers.

scientific article published on 23 September 2013

Distribution of contact force during impact to the hip.

scientific article published in May 1997

Effect of ambient light and age-related macular degeneration on precision walking.

scientific article published in August 2014

Effect of compliant flooring on impact force during falls on the hip

scientific article published on 01 July 2006

Effect of hip protectors, falling angle and body mass index on pressure distribution over the hip during simulated falls

scientific article published on 01 January 2010

Effect of mouthguards on the transmission of force across the human jaw.

scientific article published in September 2005

Effect of neck flexor muscle activation on impact velocity of the head during backward falls in young adults

scientific article

Effect of strength and speed of torque development on balance recovery with the ankle strategy.

scientific article published in August 2002

Effect of the "squat protective response" on impact velocity during backward falls

scientific article published on 01 September 2004

Effects of age-related macular degeneration and ambient light on curb negotiation.

scientific article published in August 2014

Effects of hip abductor muscle forces and knee boundary conditions on femoral neck stresses during simulated falls

scientific article published on 16 July 2014

Elderly nursing home and day care participants are less likely than young adults to approach imbalance during voluntary forward reaching

scientific article published on 01 July 2004

Energy-shunting hip padding system attenuates femoral impact force in a simulated fall

scientific article published on 01 November 1995

Enhancing clinical measures of postural stability with wearable sensors.

scientific article published on January 2012

Estimation of Attitude and External Acceleration Using Inertial Sensor Measurement During Various Dynamic Conditions.

scientific article

External Hand Forces Exerted by Long-Term Care Staff to Push Floor-Based Lifts: Effects of Flooring System and Resident Weight.

scientific article published on 20 April 2016

Falls and Parkinson's Disease: Evidence from Video Recordings of Actual Fall Events.

scientific article published on January 2016

Falls in older people in long-term care--authors' reply

scientific article published on 01 April 2013

Female Age-Related Differences in Biomechanics and Muscle Activity During Descents on the Outstretched Arms.

scientific article published on 17 January 2017

Force attenuation in trochanteric soft tissues during impact from a fall.

scientific article published in November 1995

Hip protectors: recommendations for conducting clinical trials--an international consensus statement (part II)

scientific article published in January 2010

Home-safety modifications to reduce injuries from falls

scientific article published on 22 September 2014

Identifying the number and location of body worn sensors to accurately classify walking, transferring and sedentary activities.

scientific article

Inertial sensing-based pre-impact detection of falls involving near-fall scenarios

scientific article published on 19 September 2014

Kinematic analysis of video-captured falls experienced by older adults in long-term care

scientific article published on 24 February 2015

Low stiffness floors can attenuate fall-related femoral impact forces by up to 50% without substantially impairing balance in older women

scientific article published on 26 March 2009

Measurement of the effect of playground surface materials on hand impact forces during upper limb fall arrests

scientific article

Mechanisms underlying age-related differences in ability to recover balance with the ankle strategy

scientific article published on 12 January 2005

Modeling of postural stability borders during heel-toe rocking.

scientific article published on 7 May 2009

Neuromuscular versus behavioural influences on reaching performance in young and elderly women

scientific article published on 01 November 2005

Optimizing nondecomposable loss functions in structured prediction.

scientific article published on April 2013

Perception of postural limits in elderly nursing home and day care participants

scientific article published on 01 March 1999

Postural steadiness during quiet stance does not associate with ability to recover balance in older women

scientific article published on 01 October 2005

Predicting the impact response of a nonlinear single-degree-of-freedom shock-absorbing system from the measured step response.

scientific article published in August 1997

Prediction of Femoral Impact Forces in Falls on the Hip ⬇️

scientific article published on November 1, 1991

Pressure distribution over the palm region during forward falls on the outstretched hands

scientific article

Prevalence of and factors associated with head impact during falls in older adults in long-term care

scientific article

Preventing fall-related vertebral fractures: effect of floor stiffness on peak impact forces during backward falls.

scientific article published in August 2008

Prevention of falls and fall-related fractures through biomechanics.

scientific article published in April 2000

Quantification of the trade-off between force attenuation and balance impairment in the design of compliant safety floors

scientific article published on 27 December 2012

Reducing hip fracture risk during sideways falls: evidence in young adults of the protective effects of impact to the hands and stepping

scientific article published on 28 March 2007

Risk factors for hip impact during real-life falls captured on video in long-term care.

scientific article published on 8 August 2015

Sex Differences in the Circumstances Leading to Falls: Evidence From Real-Life Falls Captured on Video in Long-Term Care.

scientific article

Strategies for avoiding hip impact during sideways falls

scientific article published on 01 July 2003

Study protocol for the Flooring for Injury Prevention (FLIP) Study: a randomised controlled trial in long-term care.

scientific article published on 4 April 2016

Surface stiffness affects impact force during a fall on the outstretched hand.

scientific article published in May 1998

The Effect Of Fall Biomechanics On Risk For Hip Fracture In Older Adults: A Cohort Study Of Video-Captured Falls In Long-Term Care

scientific article published on 13 May 2020

The Effect of Shoulder Pad Design on Head Impact Severity during Checking.

scientific article published on 21 October 2016

The European Standard testing method for motorcyclists' protective clothing (EN 1621-1) is unsuitable for hip protectors

scientific article published on 06 September 2009

The association between fall frequency, injury risk and characteristics of falls in older residents of long-term care: do recurrent fallers fall more safely?

scientific article

The body configuration at step contact critically determines the successfulness of balance recovery in response to large backward perturbations

scientific article published on 22 December 2011

The effect of orthostatic stress type on cardiovascular control.

scientific article

The effect of positioning on the biomechanical performance of soft shell hip protectors

scientific article published on 16 December 2009

The effect of window size and lead time on pre-impact fall detection accuracy using support vector machine analysis of waist mounted inertial sensor data.

scientific article

The effects of initial movement dynamics on human responses to postural perturbations

scientific article published on 16 August 2013

The effects of pad geometry and material properties on the biomechanical effectiveness of 26 commercially available hip protectors.

scientific article

Time requirement for young and elderly women to move into a position for breaking a fall with outstretched hands.

scientific article published in December 2005

Using video capture to investigate the causes of falls in long-term care.

scientific article

Validation and psychometric properties of the commitment to hip protectors (C-HiP) index in long-term care providers of British Columbia, Canada: a cross-sectional survey

scientific article

Validation of accuracy of SVM-based fall detection system using real-world fall and non-fall datasets

scientific article

Video capture of the circumstances of falls in elderly people residing in long-term care: an observational study ⬇️

scientific article published on October 17, 2012

Wrist impact velocities are smaller in forward falls than backward falls from standing.

scientific article published on 11 July 2005

List of works by Stephen N Robinovitch

A comparison of accuracy of fall detection algorithms (threshold-based vs. machine learning) using waist-mounted tri-axial accelerometer signals from a comprehensive set of falls and non-fall trials.

A tongue force measurement system for the assessment of oral-phase swallowing disorders.

Accuracy of Kinovea software in estimating body segment movements during falls captured on standard video: Effects of fall direction, camera perspective and video calibration technique

Accuracy of a wavelet-based fall detection approach using an accelerometer and a barometric pressure sensor.

Age differences in energy absorption in the upper extremity during a descent movement: implications for arresting a fall

Age-related changes in dynamic compressive properties of trochanteric soft tissues over the hip.

Agreement between video footage and fall incident reports on the circumstances of falls in long-term care.

An Analysis of the Accuracy of Wearable Sensors for Classifying the Causes of Falls in Humans ⬇️

An analysis of the effect of lower extremity strength on impact severity during a backward fall.

An educational video to promote multi-factorial approaches for fall and injury prevention in long-term care facilities

Association between Sedentary Behaviour and Physical, Cognitive, and Psychosocial Status among Older Adults in Assisted Living

Autonomy, choice, patient-centered care, and hip protectors: the experience of residents and staff in long-term care

Biomechanical and physiological age differences in a simulated forward fall on outstretched hands in women.

Biometric system for measuring gait and fall characteristics captured on video.

Cardiovascular responses to orthostasis and their association with falls in older adults

Characterizing the effective stiffness of the pelvis during sideways falls on the hip.

Clinical Risk Factors for Head Impact During Falls in Older Adults: A Prospective Cohort Study in Long-Term Care.

Common protective movements govern unexpected falls from standing height.

Compliant flooring to prevent fall-related injuries in older adults: A scoping review of biomechanical efficacy, clinical effectiveness, cost-effectiveness, and workplace safety.

Development of a standard fall data format for signals from body-worn sensors : the FARSEEING consensus.

Development of a stick-on hip protector: A multiple methods study to improve hip protector design for older adults in the acute care environment

Discriminative Latent Models for Recognizing Contextual Group Activities ⬇️

Distinguishing near-falls from daily activities with wearable accelerometers and gyroscopes using Support Vector Machines.

Distinguishing the causes of falls in humans using an array of wearable tri-axial accelerometers.

Distribution of contact force during impact to the hip.

Effect of ambient light and age-related macular degeneration on precision walking.

Effect of compliant flooring on impact force during falls on the hip

Effect of hip protectors, falling angle and body mass index on pressure distribution over the hip during simulated falls

Effect of mouthguards on the transmission of force across the human jaw.

Effect of neck flexor muscle activation on impact velocity of the head during backward falls in young adults

Effect of strength and speed of torque development on balance recovery with the ankle strategy.

Effect of the "squat protective response" on impact velocity during backward falls

Effects of age-related macular degeneration and ambient light on curb negotiation.

Effects of hip abductor muscle forces and knee boundary conditions on femoral neck stresses during simulated falls

Elderly nursing home and day care participants are less likely than young adults to approach imbalance during voluntary forward reaching

Energy-shunting hip padding system attenuates femoral impact force in a simulated fall

Enhancing clinical measures of postural stability with wearable sensors.

Estimation of Attitude and External Acceleration Using Inertial Sensor Measurement During Various Dynamic Conditions.

External Hand Forces Exerted by Long-Term Care Staff to Push Floor-Based Lifts: Effects of Flooring System and Resident Weight.

Falls and Parkinson's Disease: Evidence from Video Recordings of Actual Fall Events.

Falls in older people in long-term care--authors' reply

Female Age-Related Differences in Biomechanics and Muscle Activity During Descents on the Outstretched Arms.

Force attenuation in trochanteric soft tissues during impact from a fall.

Hip protectors: recommendations for conducting clinical trials--an international consensus statement (part II)

Home-safety modifications to reduce injuries from falls

Identifying the number and location of body worn sensors to accurately classify walking, transferring and sedentary activities.

Inertial sensing-based pre-impact detection of falls involving near-fall scenarios

Kinematic analysis of video-captured falls experienced by older adults in long-term care

Low stiffness floors can attenuate fall-related femoral impact forces by up to 50% without substantially impairing balance in older women

Measurement of the effect of playground surface materials on hand impact forces during upper limb fall arrests

Mechanisms underlying age-related differences in ability to recover balance with the ankle strategy

Modeling of postural stability borders during heel-toe rocking.

Neuromuscular versus behavioural influences on reaching performance in young and elderly women

Optimizing nondecomposable loss functions in structured prediction.

Perception of postural limits in elderly nursing home and day care participants

Postural steadiness during quiet stance does not associate with ability to recover balance in older women

Predicting the impact response of a nonlinear single-degree-of-freedom shock-absorbing system from the measured step response.

Prediction of Femoral Impact Forces in Falls on the Hip ⬇️

Pressure distribution over the palm region during forward falls on the outstretched hands

Prevalence of and factors associated with head impact during falls in older adults in long-term care

Preventing fall-related vertebral fractures: effect of floor stiffness on peak impact forces during backward falls.

Prevention of falls and fall-related fractures through biomechanics.

Quantification of the trade-off between force attenuation and balance impairment in the design of compliant safety floors

Reducing hip fracture risk during sideways falls: evidence in young adults of the protective effects of impact to the hands and stepping

Risk factors for hip impact during real-life falls captured on video in long-term care.

Sex Differences in the Circumstances Leading to Falls: Evidence From Real-Life Falls Captured on Video in Long-Term Care.

Strategies for avoiding hip impact during sideways falls

Study protocol for the Flooring for Injury Prevention (FLIP) Study: a randomised controlled trial in long-term care.

Surface stiffness affects impact force during a fall on the outstretched hand.

The Effect Of Fall Biomechanics On Risk For Hip Fracture In Older Adults: A Cohort Study Of Video-Captured Falls In Long-Term Care

The Effect of Shoulder Pad Design on Head Impact Severity during Checking.

The European Standard testing method for motorcyclists' protective clothing (EN 1621-1) is unsuitable for hip protectors

The association between fall frequency, injury risk and characteristics of falls in older residents of long-term care: do recurrent fallers fall more safely?

The body configuration at step contact critically determines the successfulness of balance recovery in response to large backward perturbations

The effect of orthostatic stress type on cardiovascular control.

The effect of positioning on the biomechanical performance of soft shell hip protectors

The effect of window size and lead time on pre-impact fall detection accuracy using support vector machine analysis of waist mounted inertial sensor data.

The effects of initial movement dynamics on human responses to postural perturbations

The effects of pad geometry and material properties on the biomechanical effectiveness of 26 commercially available hip protectors.