Harms, Holger

Holger Harms received the Dipl.-Ing. degree in information technology from the University of Rostock, Germany, in 2004. Since 2006, he has been working toward the Ph.D. degree at the Wearable Computing Laboratory, ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland. He completed one semester of traineeship at IBM, Tucson, AZ, and two years in the core development of former Siemens VDO, Germany. His research interests include garment-based sensing of motions in sports and rehabilitation.

Research Interests

• Garment-based sensing of human postures and activities
• Multi sensor fusion and signal processing
• Wearable systems architecture

Projects

ETHOS (ETH Onbody Sensor) implements a wearable sensor platform that is optimized for long-term monitoring of human body segment orientation.

The SMASH (SMArt SHirt) constitutes a new versatile sensor platform, that is integrated into a common loose fitting long sleeve shirt. The clothing can be equipped with motion sensors to provide feedback about the wearer’s movements or postures.

Student projects and teaching

Master theses

• Erfassung von kinematischen Ermüdungsparametern beim Laufen mittels körpergetragener Sensoren; S. Hensler, 2010
• Garment-based measurement of human upper-body orientation using miniature inertial sensing unit; R. Winkler, 2009
• Electronics in a Yarn; C. Zysset, 2008
• Erkennung von Oberkörperhaltungen mit Hilfe von elektronischen Textilien bei gesunden Kindern; M. Appert, 2008
• Conception, Implementation and Textile Integration of a 100 Sensor Shirt; E. Bürli, 2007

Semester theses

• Particle - model for simulation of fabric drape in garments; F. Huber, 2010
• Feature Selection for Body-worn Sensors; D. Christen, 2007
• Online Feature Selection; F. Braunwalder, and P. Dieringer, 2007

Teaching

• Wearable System II assistant in spring semester 2007 and 2008

Publications

2011

• Out of the Lab and Into the Woods: Kinematic Analysis in Running Using Wearable Sensors
  Christina Strohrmann, Holger Harms, Gerhard Tröster, Stefanie Hensler and Roland Müller
  in: Proceedings of the 13th ACM International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing (UbiComp 2011), ACM, 2011
  [ BiBTeX RIS PDF ]
• What do sensors know about your running performance?
  Christina Strohrmann, Holger Harms and Gerhard Tröster
  in: Proceedings of the 14th IEEE International Symposium on Wearable Computers (ISWC 2011), IEEE Computer Society, 2011
  [ BiBTeX RIS PDF ]

2010

• Detection of Snowboarding Moves with Sensorized Bindings
  Thomas Holleczek, Holger Harms and Gerhard Tröster
  (2010), in: Science and Skiing, 5
  [ BiBTeX RIS ]
• Estimating posture recognition performance in sensing garments using geometric wrinkle modeling
  Holger Harms, Oliver Amft and Gerhard Tröster
  (2010), in: IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine
  [ BiBTeX RIS ]
• ETHOS: Miniature Orientation Sensor for Wearable Human Motion Analysis
  Holger Harms, Oliver Amft, Rene Winkler, Johannes Schumm, Martin Kusserow and Gerhard Tröster
  in: Proceedings of IEEE Sensors conference, IEEE, 2010
  [ BiBTeX RIS ]
• Motion sensitive clothing
  Holger Harms, Oliver Amft, Dominique Favre, Christian Liesen, Daniel Roggen and Gerhard Tröster
  in: The Eighth International Conference on Pervasive Computing, Helsinki, Finland, 2010
  [ BiBTeX RIS ]
• Pressure Measurements with Sensor-Equipped Snowboard Bindings
  Thomas Holleczek, Alex Rüegg, Holger Harms and Gerhard Tröster
  in: Sportinformatik 2010, Darmstadt, Germany, 2010
  [ BiBTeX RIS ]
• Textile Pressure Sensors for Sports Applications
  Thomas Holleczek, Alex Rüegg, Holger Harms and Gerhard Tröster
  in: Proceedings of the 9th IEEE Conference on Sensors (IEEE Sensors 2010), Waikoloa, Hawaii, USA, 2010
  [ BiBTeX RIS PDF ]

2009

• Detection of posture in children by an electronic garment – a pilot study
  Mirjam Appert, Holger Harms, Roland Müller, Daniel Roggen, Karin Brütsch, Gerhard Tröster and Andreas Meyer-Heim
  (2009), in: Swiss Medical Weekly - The European Journal of Medical Sciences, 139(22)
  [ BiBTeX RIS ]
• Modeling and simulation of sensor orientation errors in garments
  Holger Harms, Oliver Amft and Gerhard Tröster
  in: BodyNets09: In Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Body Area Networks, 2009
  [ BiBTeX RIS ]
• Rapid prototyping of smart garments for activity-aware applications
  Holger Harms, Oliver Amft, Daniel Roggen and Gerhard Tröster
  (2009), in: Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Smart Environments (JAISE)
  [ BiBTeX RIS ]
• Wearable therapist: sensing garments for supporting children improve posture
  Holger Harms, Oliver Amft and Gerhard Tröster
  (2009), in: 11th International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing, Ubicomp 2009
  [ BiBTeX RIS ]

2008

• Estimating exercise execution quality from garment-integrated sensors
  Oliver Amft, Holger Harms, Gerhard Tröster and Corina Schuster
  (2008), in: Neurorehabil Neural Repair, 22:5(616)
  [ BiBTeX RIS ]
• Influence of a Loose-Fitting Sensing Garment on Posture Recognition in Rehabilitation
  Holger Harms, Oliver Amft and Gerhard Tröster
  in: BioCAS 2008: Proceedings of the Biomedical Circuits and Systems Conference, 2008
  [ BiBTeX RIS ]
• SMASH - A rapid prototyping garment
  Holger Harms, Oliver Amft, Daniel Roggen and Gerhard Tröster
  in: Futurotextiel 2008: Proceedings of the 2nd International Scientific Conference on Textiles of the Future, 2008
  [ BiBTeX RIS ]
• SMASH: A distributed sensing and processing garment for the classification of upper body postures
  Holger Harms, Oliver Amft, Daniel Roggen and Gerhard Tröster
  in: BodyNets 2008: Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Body Area Networks, ACM press, 2008
  [ BiBTeX RIS ]

2007

• Recognizing Upper Body Postures using Textile Strain Sensors
  Corinne Mattmann, Oliver Amft, Holger Harms, Frank Clemens and Gerhard Tröster
  in: Proc. 11th International Symposium on Wearable Computers (ISWC07), Boston, pages 29-36, 2007
  [ BiBTeX RIS PDF DOI ]

Patent

• Garment integrated apparatus for online posture and body movement detection, analysis and feedback
  PCT/EP2009/001864, Patent pending