{"title":"Assessment of movement patterns in stroke patients: a case study with the Virtual Peg Insertion Test","authors":"P. Hofmann, J. Held, R. Gassert, O. Lambercy","doi":"10.5281/ZENODO.846983","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5281/ZENODO.846983","url":null,"abstract":"Abnormal movement patterns during upper-limb reaching tasks are often observed in patients after stroke, but clinical tools are lacking to objectively evaluate and quantify them. This paper presents the implementation and evaluation of six trajectory-based metrics on the Virtual Peg Insertion Test, a technology-based assessment of upper limb function consisting of a goal-directed peg-in-hole task. A case study with four stroke patients illustrates the ability of the proposed metrics to describe motion patterns that differ from age-matched healthy subjects, and thus to objectively assess and track abnormal movement patterns.","PeriodicalId":241320,"journal":{"name":"International Convention on Rehabilitation Engineering & Assistive Technology","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-07-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121922319","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Adapting motorbikes for independent use by people with disability","authors":"J. Owens","doi":"10.1145/1592700.1592704","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/1592700.1592704","url":null,"abstract":"In much of the world motorbikes are the dominant means of transportation. In the developing world motorbikes are often the only form of motorized transportation affordable to the majority of the population. Unfortunately this method of transportation has not been widely exploited anywhere in the world for use by people with severe mobility impairments, especially those who must use wheelchairs. To provide affordable transport for a wide range of mobility-impaired people I have developed an inexpensive sidecar adaptation for motorbikes, capable of transporting a wheelchair user (Figure 1). This adaptation is referred to as the SideScooter. The SideScooter can be operated independently with hand controls from the sidecar or from the motorbike seat, depending on the needs of the operator. Given the vast number of motorbikes in the world and the scarcity of independent transportation for wheelchair users this device has the potential to improve the quality of life for many disabled people in developing as well as the more affluent regions of the world.","PeriodicalId":241320,"journal":{"name":"International Convention on Rehabilitation Engineering & Assistive Technology","volume":"14 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-04-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127278169","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"iPSL: enabling rehabilitation of deaf community in Pakistan","authors":"Hassan Afzal, S. Nafees, Saad Nasir, Amina Tariq","doi":"10.1145/1592700.1592743","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/1592700.1592743","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents an initiative taken in Pakistan for the rehabilitation of the deaf community, enabled by the use of technology. iPSL is a system that primarily aims at facilitating communication between the hearing and the deaf community in Pakistan. There is a twofold approach to achieve this. The first dimension is to implement a system that can translate signs made by deaf into natural language sentences. The second dimension is to implement tools that enable hearing people to understand and learn sign language by converting natural language sentences into sign language. This paper presents the progress made in the project so far in terms of design, implementation and evaluation.","PeriodicalId":241320,"journal":{"name":"International Convention on Rehabilitation Engineering & Assistive Technology","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-04-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130432764","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Adult children's perceptions of intelligent home systems in the care of elderly parents","authors":"J. Coughlin, Jasmin Lau, L. D'Ambrosio, B. Reimer","doi":"10.1145/1592700.1592714","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/1592700.1592714","url":null,"abstract":"Smart home technologies and services are widely researched and are being commercialized for use in the homes of older adults throughout the world. However, widespread adoption by older adults of even the most affordable and simple systems has been mixed. While older adults may be the \"users\" of such technologies, we seek to understand the perceptions held by key \"influencers\" in the purchase and use decisions -- the adult child. We present an exploratory study based upon a convenience sample of adult children most likely to embrace intelligent home systems and services. Survey respondents are highly educated, technology savvy, middle to high-income adult children ages 35 and older. This group represents possible \"lead adopters\" who might advance the commercialization of these potentially useful technologies. Findings suggest that trust in the accuracy of the system, privacy concerns and willingness to intervene in a parent's home may present challenges to adoption even among tech-savvy adult children.","PeriodicalId":241320,"journal":{"name":"International Convention on Rehabilitation Engineering & Assistive Technology","volume":"40 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-04-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121729052","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
O. Lambercy, L. Dovat, Hong Yun, S. Wee, C. Kuah, K. Chua, R. Gassert, T. Milner, E. Burdet, C. Teo
{"title":"Exercises for rehabilitation and assessment of hand motor function with the Haptic Knob","authors":"O. Lambercy, L. Dovat, Hong Yun, S. Wee, C. Kuah, K. Chua, R. Gassert, T. Milner, E. Burdet, C. Teo","doi":"10.1145/1592700.1592722","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/1592700.1592722","url":null,"abstract":"This paper investigates robot-assisted rehabilitation and assessment of hand function after stroke using the Haptic Knob, a 2 degrees-of-freedom end-effector based robotic device to train grasping and wrist pronation/supination.\u0000 Nine chronic stroke subjects trained over a period of 6 weeks, with 3 one-hour sessions of robot-assisted therapy per week, consisting in two exercises requiring active participation promoted by therapeutic games. Behavioral data collected by the Haptic Knob were analyzed to evaluate motion control, smoothness and precision over the therapy. Subjects progressively improved their performances in the proposed functional exercises, suggesting improvement in hand motor function. This was confirmed by results of standard clinical assessment as subjects improved a mean of 4.3 points in the Fugl-Meyer assessment scale, accompanied by a decrease in spasticity. These results illustrate the positive effect of therapy with the Haptic Knob and the possibility to use it as an assessment tool to evaluate and monitor hand motor function during rehabilitation therapy.","PeriodicalId":241320,"journal":{"name":"International Convention on Rehabilitation Engineering & Assistive Technology","volume":"292 7","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-04-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"113958915","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Spatial filtering and single-trial classification of EEG during vowel speech imagery","authors":"C. DaSalla, H. Kambara, Y. Koike, Makoto Sato","doi":"10.1145/1592700.1592731","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/1592700.1592731","url":null,"abstract":"With the purpose of providing assistive technology for the communication impaired, we propose a control algorithm for speech prostheses using vowel speech imagery. Electroen-cephalograms were recorded in three healthy subjects during the performance of three tasks, imaginary speech of the English vowels /a/ and /u/, and a no action state as control. Speech related potentials were visualized by grand averaging in the time domain. Feature data was obtained by filtering the time series data using optimal spatial filters designed through the common spatial patterns method. Resultant feature vectors were classified using a nonlinear support vector machine. Overall classification accuracies ranged from 68 to 78%. Results indicate significant potential for the use of vowel speech imagery as a speech prosthesis controller.","PeriodicalId":241320,"journal":{"name":"International Convention on Rehabilitation Engineering & Assistive Technology","volume":"49 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-04-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122645652","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Improving performance of asynchronous BCI by using a collection of overlapping sub window models","authors":"Nakarin Suppakun, S. Maneewongvatana","doi":"10.1145/1592700.1592721","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/1592700.1592721","url":null,"abstract":"Asynchronous Brain Computer Interfaces (BCI) have become an interesting topic in the present days because they provide simulation of realistic usage of BCI. For asynchronous BCI, the computer has to discriminate not only differences among various imaginary tasks but also detect relax periods. Since the training phase for building a classification model is still synchronous (cue-based), the main challenge is to classify the EEG signal continuously with good accuracy on asynchronous (uncue-based). This paper addresses achieving better performance by using a collection of overlapping sub windows models. A model is referred to a primitive classification model which consists of common spatial patterns (CSP) with linear discriminant analysis (LDA). Each primitive model was trained with the corresponding sub window indexes. We had 3 collections of models: task1 vs. task2, task1 vs. relax, and task2 vs. relax. These binary classification results were then fused together with Mahalanobis distance to gain better performance. The results were measured by mean square error (MSE), and their performance is better compared to the primitive model. Furthermore, the results on the test set were comparable to the 3 leading scores of BCI Competition IV dataset 1.","PeriodicalId":241320,"journal":{"name":"International Convention on Rehabilitation Engineering & Assistive Technology","volume":"64 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-04-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129806623","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Interactive rehabilitation","authors":"L. Dong, Mui Suan Tan, W. T. Ang, C. K. Ng","doi":"10.1145/1592700.1592728","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/1592700.1592728","url":null,"abstract":"In the detection of ankle injuries, the Cumberland Ankle Instability Tool (CAIT) has been widely used. However, despite its validity and reliability as acclaimed by some therapists, certain inadequacies are still present due to the differences in judgements made by the physiotherapists and human subjects. This project investigates the possible use of the Pro.Balance#8482; as a tool to detect potential ankle injuries. Preliminary results have shown that the CAIT score and the Overall Performance Index obtained from Pro.Balance#8482; are correlated. Balancing tests should be done on difficulty levels 2 and 3 so as to achieve a more reliable and accurate diagnosis. Future work includes having a larger sample size to further verify the results.","PeriodicalId":241320,"journal":{"name":"International Convention on Rehabilitation Engineering & Assistive Technology","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-04-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131150407","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
P. Punyabukkana, S. Thanawastien, Songporn Komolsuradej
{"title":"The implementation status of Thailand's national social equality in ICT master plan","authors":"P. Punyabukkana, S. Thanawastien, Songporn Komolsuradej","doi":"10.1145/1592700.1592746","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/1592700.1592746","url":null,"abstract":"The National Social Equality in Information and Communication Technology Master Plan provides a three-year road map for bridging the digital divide, supporting the use of assistive technology and promoting the creation of an assistive technology industry so that the disabled in Thailand will be able to afford the acquisition of the assistive technology. After the first year of implementation, 42% of the Year 1 projects have been implemented, with satisfactory results. The main output has been the training of 150 web designers who can handle the redesign of government websites to conform to the WCAG 1.0 standard at an AA conformance level. Three government websites have been transformed to attain AA conformance as initial pilot projects.","PeriodicalId":241320,"journal":{"name":"International Convention on Rehabilitation Engineering & Assistive Technology","volume":"64 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-04-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128556105","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Evaluation on the methods to identify muscle fatigue changes after focal cortical ischemia in rats","authors":"W. Rong, Le Li, Z. Ke, Xiaoling Hu, K. Tong","doi":"10.1145/1592700.1592730","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/1592700.1592730","url":null,"abstract":"The extent of the restoration of limb functions after stroke is highly associated with the time of rehabilitation intervention and the corresponding workload prescription. Physical practice of the affected limbs in the relatively early stages after stroke (i.e. acute and subacute stages) could achieve a more significant motor functional recovery than the post-stroke training introduced in the later stage (i.e. chronic stage); However, the recovering brain would face more risks of further damage in response to overexercise during the early stages than in the chronic period. In this study we have developed a platform to investigate fatigue change after stroke in rat. Results on 10 stroke rats showed decreases in mean power frequency (MPF) after the stroke surgery and larger co-contraction in the EMG signals, which were related to fatigue changes. The understanding on fatigue could help to generate suitable workload prescription for post-stroke rehabilitation, which will lead to an optimal functional and physiological recovery.","PeriodicalId":241320,"journal":{"name":"International Convention on Rehabilitation Engineering & Assistive Technology","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-04-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117053628","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}