1. A system for classifying an impact to a head of a human being as one of a plurality of event classes, the system comprising: a sensor interface configured to determine an acceleration at a location of interest on the human being from provided sensor data in response to the impact; a feature calculation component configured to calculate a plurality of impact parameters from the determined acceleration at the location of interest; a pattern recognition classifier configured to associate the impact with an associated event class of at least three associated event classes according to the calculated plurality of impact parameters; and a post-processing component configured to communicate the associated event class an observer via an associated output device.