GEARing smart environments for pediatric motor rehabilitation.

Journal: Journal of neuroengineering and rehabilitation
PMID: 32041623

Abstract

BACKGROUND: There is a lack of early (infant) mobility rehabilitation approaches that incorporate natural and complex environments and have the potential to concurrently advance motor, cognitive, and social development. The Grounded Early Adaptive Rehabilitation (GEAR) system is a pediatric learning environment designed to provide motor interventions that are grounded in social theory and can be applied in early life. Within a perceptively complex and behaviorally natural setting, GEAR utilizes novel body-weight support technology and socially-assistive robots to both ease and encourage mobility in young children through play-based, child-robot interaction. This methodology article reports on the development and integration of the different system components and presents preliminary evidence on the feasibility of the system.

Authors

  • Elena Kokkoni
    Department of Bioengineering, University of California, Riverside, CA, 92521, USA. elena.kokkoni@ucr.edu.
  • Effrosyni Mavroudi
    Department of Biomedical Engineering and Mathematical Institute for Data Science, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, 21218, USA.
  • Ashkan Zehfroosh
    Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Delaware, Newark, DE, 19716, USA.
  • James C Galloway
    Department of Physical Therapy and Biomechanics and Movement Science Program, University of Delaware, Newark, DE, 19713, USA.
  • Renè Vidal
    Department of Biomedical Engineering and Mathematical Institute for Data Science, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, 21218, USA.
  • Jeffrey Heinz
    Department of Linguistics and Institute of Advanced Computational Science, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, 11794, USA.
  • Herbert G Tanner
    Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Delaware, Newark, DE, 19716, USA.

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