@article{ref1,
title="Designing sensor systems capable of differentiating children from adults",
journal="Journal of safety research",
year="2006",
author="Butturini, Randy and Midgett, Jonathan",
volume="37",
number="2",
pages="175-185",
abstract="INTRODUCTION: Injury prevention systems intended to prevent children from entering hazardous locations (or at least alert caregivers if that occurs) often respond to every instance of a person's presence, regardless of whether the intruder is a child. This performance results in a high nuisance alarm rate that sometimes causes adults to disable or circumvent the safety system. If a child safety system can accurately identify intruders as adults or children, nuisance alarm rates can be decreased. METHOD: This analysis selects three human factors (height, foot length, and cognition) amenable to adult/child differentiation and describes likely sensor strategies, advantages, and disadvantages. RESULTS: Preliminary testing of prototypes systems shows that simple sensor systems are capable of acquiring adequate data for adult/child differentiation. The discussion addresses requirements for discriminator systems and the effects of various sensor combinations on overall performance.   <p></p>  <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0022-4375",
doi="10.1016/j.jsr.2005.11.005",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jsr.2005.11.005"
}