**Smartphone and Portable Media Device: A Novel Pathway toward the Diagnostic Characterization of Human Movement Pathway toward the Diagnostic Characterization of Human Movement**

**Smartphone and Portable Media Device: A Novel** 

DOI: 10.5772/intechopen.69961

Robert LeMoyne and Timothy Mastroianni Robert LeMoyne and Timothy Mastroianni Additional information is available at the end of the chapter

Additional information is available at the end of the chapter

http://dx.doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.69961

#### **Abstract**

The application of wearable and wireless systems offers the capacity to ameliorate considerable strain on medical resources. In particular the smartphone and portable media device for quantifying human movement characteristics offers the opportunity to evaluate patients in a homebound environment remote from clinical resources and postprocessing. Trial data can be easily transmitted as an email attachment with wireless connectivity to the Internet. The utility of the smartphone and portable media device has been demonstrated for quantifying gait, tendon reflex response, movement disorder, and rehabilitation exercise. Further evolution and potential has been demonstrated through the integration of machine learning to provide classification accuracy for differentiating between disparate human movement scenarios. The role of the smartphone and portable media device for quantifying human movement characteristics is further elucidated.

**Keywords:** smartphone, portable media device, wearable, wireless, wireless accelerometer, wireless gyroscope, gait analysis, reflex response, patellar tendon reflex, Parkinson's disease tremor, essential tremor, Virtual Proprioception, machine learning, rehabilitation, therapy
