Pubblicazione scientifica

A Body Tracking-Based Low-Cost Solution for Monitoring Workers’ Hygiene Best Practices during Pandemics

FILONE TECNOLOGICO	TEMA
sicurezza e qualità sui luoghi di lavoro	sistemi per il miglioramento della qualità del lavoro in mare e/o a terra

RIASSUNTO

Since its beginning at the end of 2019, the pandemic spread of the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (Sars-CoV-2) caused more than one million deaths in only nine months. The threat of emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases exists as an imminent threat to human health. It is essential to implement adequate hygiene best practices to break the contagion chain and enhance society preparedness for such critical scenarios and understand the relevance of each disease transmission route. As the unconscious hand–face contact gesture constitutes a potential pathway of contagion, in this paper, the authors present a prototype system based on low-cost depth sensors able to monitor in real-time the attitude towards such a habit. The system records people’s behavior to enhance their awareness by providing real-time warnings, providing for statistical reports for designing proper hygiene solutions, and better understanding the role of such route of contagion. A preliminary validation study measured an overall accuracy of 91%. A Cohen’s Kappa equal to 0.876 supports rejecting the hypothesis that such accuracy is accidental. Low-cost body tracking technologies can effectively support monitoring compliance with hygiene best practices and training people in real-time. By collecting data and analyzing them with respect to people categories and contagion statistics, it could be possible to understand the importance of this contagion pathway and identify for which people category such a behavioral attitude constitutes a significant risk.

DATA

Data di pubblicazione: 29/10/2020

AUTORI

MANGHISI VITO M
FIORENTINO MICHELE
BOCCACCIO ANTONIO
GATTULLO MICHELE
CASCELLA GIUSEPPE L
TOSCHI NICOLA
PIETROIUSTI ANTONIO
UVA ANTONIO E

ENTE DI AFFERENZA

DEPT MECHANICS MATHEMATICS & MGMT POLYTECHNIC UNIV BARI
DEPT ELEC ENG & INFO TECH POLYTECHNIC UNIV BARI
DEPARTMENT OF BIOMEDICINE AND PREVENTION UNIVERSITY OF ROME ‘TOR VERGATA’ FACOLTA DI MEDICINA E CHIRURGIA VIALE MONTPELLIER 1 00133 ROME ITALY TOSCHI@MED UNIROMA2 IT NT PIETROIU@UNIROMA2 IT AP

RIVISTA

Sensors (Basel, Switzerland), 20(21), 6149

IMPACT FACTOR

3,510

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