A Body Tracking-Based Low-Cost Solution for Monitoring Workers’ Hygiene Best Practices during Pandemics
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 esse...
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| author | Vito M. Manghisi Michele Fiorentino Antonio Boccaccio Michele Gattullo Giuseppe L. Cascella Nicola Toschi Antonio Pietroiusti Antonio E. Uva |
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| description | 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. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-de3a89a3939e43a49222960b8dfe61572023-11-20T19:01:19ZengMDPI AGSensors1424-82202020-10-012021614910.3390/s20216149A Body Tracking-Based Low-Cost Solution for Monitoring Workers’ Hygiene Best Practices during PandemicsVito M. Manghisi0Michele Fiorentino1Antonio Boccaccio2Michele Gattullo3Giuseppe L. Cascella4Nicola Toschi5Antonio Pietroiusti6Antonio E. Uva7Department of Mechanics, Mathematics, and Management, Polytechnic University of Bari, via Oraboba 4, 70125 Bari, ItalyDepartment of Mechanics, Mathematics, and Management, Polytechnic University of Bari, via Oraboba 4, 70125 Bari, ItalyDepartment of Mechanics, Mathematics, and Management, Polytechnic University of Bari, via Oraboba 4, 70125 Bari, ItalyDepartment of Mechanics, Mathematics, and Management, Polytechnic University of Bari, via Oraboba 4, 70125 Bari, ItalyDepartment of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology, Polytechnic University of Bari, via Oraboba 4, 70125 Bari, ItalyDepartment of Biomedicine and Prevention, University of Rome ‘Tor Vergata’ Facoltà di Medicina e Chirurgia Viale Montpellier, 1, 00133 Rome, ItalyDepartment of Biomedicine and Prevention, University of Rome ‘Tor Vergata’ Facoltà di Medicina e Chirurgia Viale Montpellier, 1, 00133 Rome, ItalyDepartment of Mechanics, Mathematics, and Management, Polytechnic University of Bari, via Oraboba 4, 70125 Bari, ItalySince 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.https://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/20/21/6149body trackingazure kinectoccupational safetysafety traininghygiene best practicespandemics containment |
| spellingShingle | Vito M. Manghisi Michele Fiorentino Antonio Boccaccio Michele Gattullo Giuseppe L. Cascella Nicola Toschi Antonio Pietroiusti Antonio E. Uva A Body Tracking-Based Low-Cost Solution for Monitoring Workers’ Hygiene Best Practices during Pandemics Sensors body tracking azure kinect occupational safety safety training hygiene best practices pandemics containment |
| title | A Body Tracking-Based Low-Cost Solution for Monitoring Workers’ Hygiene Best Practices during Pandemics |
| title_full | A Body Tracking-Based Low-Cost Solution for Monitoring Workers’ Hygiene Best Practices during Pandemics |
| title_fullStr | A Body Tracking-Based Low-Cost Solution for Monitoring Workers’ Hygiene Best Practices during Pandemics |
| title_full_unstemmed | A Body Tracking-Based Low-Cost Solution for Monitoring Workers’ Hygiene Best Practices during Pandemics |
| title_short | A Body Tracking-Based Low-Cost Solution for Monitoring Workers’ Hygiene Best Practices during Pandemics |
| title_sort | body tracking based low cost solution for monitoring workers hygiene best practices during pandemics |
| topic | body tracking azure kinect occupational safety safety training hygiene best practices pandemics containment |
| url | https://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/20/21/6149 |
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