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Disability and rehabilitation. Assistive technology

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Promoting clinical best practice in a user-centred design study of an upper limb rehabilitation robot.

Disability and rehabilitation. Assistive technology
PURPOSE: Despite their promise to increase therapy intensity in neurorehabilitation, robotic devices have not yet seen mainstream adoption. Whilst there are a number of contributing factors, it is obvious that the treating clinician should have a cle...

Inside pandora's box: a systematic review of the assessment of the perceived quality of chatbots for people with disabilities or special needs.

Disability and rehabilitation. Assistive technology
People with disabilities or special needs can benefit from AI-based conversational agents (i.e., chatbots) that are used for competence training and well-being management. Assessing the quality of interactions with these chatbots is key to being abl...

Significant challenges when introducing care robots in Swedish elder care.

Disability and rehabilitation. Assistive technology
INTRODUCTION: Care robots are machines, operating partly or completely autonomously, that are intended to assist older people and their caregivers. Care robots are seen as one part of the solution to the aging population, allowing fewer professional ...

Caregiver perspectives on a smart home-based socially assistive robot for individuals with Alzheimer's disease and related dementia.

Disability and rehabilitation. Assistive technology
: Innovative assistive technology can address aging-in-place and caregiving needs of individuals with Alzheimer's disease and related dementia (ADRD). The purpose of this study was to beta-test a novel socially assistive robot (SAR) with a cohort of ...

Object detection and recognition: using deep learning to assist the visually impaired.

Disability and rehabilitation. Assistive technology
BACKGROUND: Deep learning systems have improved performance of devices through more accurate object detection in a significant number of areas, for medical aid in general, and also for navigational aids for the visually impaired. Systems addressing d...

Person transfer assist systems: a literature review.

Disability and rehabilitation. Assistive technology
OBJECTIVE: Novel developments in the robotics field have produced systems that can support person wheelchair transfers, maximize safety and reduce caregiver burden. The purpose of this study was to identify and describe these systems, their usability...

Assistive robots to improve the independent living of older persons: results from a needs study.

Disability and rehabilitation. Assistive technology
BACKGROUND: More than 70% of elderly people age 80 and older are experiencing problems in personal mobility. Assistive robotics can represent a concrete support providing also a support for caregivers, clinicians and nurses by reducing their burden.

A review of cable-driven rehabilitation devices.

Disability and rehabilitation. Assistive technology
To conduct a survey on the research and development of cable-driven rehabilitation devices (CDRDs). This review searches in the databases of PubMed, IEEE Xplore Digital Library, Science Direct, and Google Scholar using various combinations of the f...

Iterative processes: a review of semi-supervised machine learning in rehabilitation science.

Disability and rehabilitation. Assistive technology
To define semi-supervised machine learning (SSML) and explore current and potential applications of this analytic strategy in rehabilitation research. We conducted a scoping review using PubMed, GoogleScholar and Medline. Studies were included if th...

A review of computer vision for semi-autonomous control of assistive robotic manipulators (ARMs).

Disability and rehabilitation. Assistive technology
The advances in artificial intelligence have started to reach a level where autonomous systems are becoming increasingly popular as a way to aid people in their everyday life. Such intelligent systems may especially be beneficially for people strugg...