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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Mar 30.
Published in final edited form as: IEEE Rev Biomed Eng. 2015 Jan 12;8:64–77. doi: 10.1109/RBME.2015.2390646

TABLE III.

Summary of instrumenting the TUG test with video-based technologies in chronological order. M = male, D = dimensional.

Article Population and Sample
Size
Description of
TUG Technology
Study Findings
Berrada et al.
(2007) [51]
N/A 1 video camera. Timing in the video sequences is
noisy.
Durfee et al.
(2007) [50]
10 healthy (2M, 18-35
years).
Video and audio
conferencing
system.
No significant differences between
TUG scores assessed locally and
remotely.
Skrba et al.
(2009) [52]
29 fallers and 23 non-
fallers (18M, mean age
70.9 years).
BioMOBIUS with
2 webcams.
Discrimination of fallers and non-
fallers by using automated
component timings and head
positioning during turning.
Wang et al.
(2011) [53]
7 healthy (age range 25-
88 years).
2 calibrated digital
cameras.
180° turn time extracted from video
exhibited a mean difference of 0.11
seconds compared with therapist
times.
Lohmann et al.
(2012) [56]
5 age-related medical
conditions (2M, 70-84
years). 4 healthy (4M, 29-
31 years).
2 Kinects. High timing precision when
compared with human stopwatch
time. Timing of subtask components.
Kitsunezaki et
al. (2013) [57]
6 healthy. 1 Kinect. The differences between Kinect and
human scored stopwatch times and
the times were averaged to 0.33
seconds.
Cippitelli et al.
(2014) [59]
N/A 1 Kinect. Analysis of head, shoulder, knee,
ankle, hip, and elbow joint angles.