HealthWalk: Promoting Health and Mobility through Sensor-Based Rollator
  Walker Assistance
Ivanna Kramer Kevin Weirauch Sabine Bauer Mark Oliver Mints Peer Neubert
Rollator walkers allow people with physical limitations to increase their
mobility and give them the confidence and independence to participate in
society for longer. However, rollator walker users often have poor posture,
leading to further health problems and, in the worst case, falls. Integrating
sensors into rollator walker designs can help to address this problem and
results in a platform that allows several other interesting use cases. This
paper briefly overviews existing systems and the current research directions
and challenges in this field. We also present our early HealthWalk rollator
walker prototype for data collection with older people, rheumatism, multiple
sclerosis and Parkinson patients, and individuals with visual impairments.