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Stress Detection Using Wearable Physiological and Sociometric Sensors.

International journal of neural systems May 16, 2016
Stress remains a significant social problem for individuals in modern societies. This paper presents a machine learning approach for the automatic detection of stress of people in a social situation by combining two sensor systems that capture physio...
Adult Male Anxiety Speech Humans Machine Learning Female Young Adult Monitoring, Ambulatory Fingers Neuropsychological Tests Wireless Technology Psychiatric Status Rating Scales Adolescent Stress, Psychological Cognition
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Characterisation and evaluation of soft elastomeric actuators for hand assistive and rehabilitation applications.

Journal of medical engineering & technology Mar 23, 2016
Various hand exoskeletons have been proposed for the purposes of providing assistance in activities of daily living and rehabilitation exercises. However, traditional exoskeletons are made of rigid components that impede the natural movement of joint...
Fingers Movement Orthotic Devices Humans Biomechanical Phenomena Robotics Range of Motion, Articular
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Enhancement of finger motion range with compliant anthropomorphic joint design.

Bioinspiration & biomimetics Feb 18, 2016
Robotic researchers have been greatly inspired by the human hand in the search to design and build adaptive robotic hands. Especially, joints have received a lot of attention upon their role in maintaining the passive compliance that gives the finger...
Robotics Equipment Design Models, Biological Biomimetics Humans Computer Simulation Computer-Aided Design Hand Strength Range of Motion, Articular Fingers Equipment Failure Analysis Finger Joint
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Compensating Hand Function in Chronic Stroke Patients Through the Robotic Sixth Finger.

IEEE transactions on neural systems and rehabilitation engineering : a publication of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society Feb 12, 2016
A novel solution to compensate hand grasping abilities is proposed for chronic stroke patients. The goal is to provide the patients with a wearable robotic extra-finger that can be worn on the paretic forearm by means of an elastic band. The proposed...
Humans Female Aged Aged, 80 and over Artificial Limbs Feasibility Studies Fingers Task Performance and Analysis Robotics Equipment Failure Analysis Equipment Design Male Paresis Hand Middle Aged Exoskeleton Device Stroke Treatment Outcome Stroke Rehabilitation Hand Strength
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Single-Grasp Object Classification and Feature Extraction with Simple Robot Hands and Tactile Sensors.

IEEE transactions on haptics Jan 25, 2016
Classical robotic approaches to tactile object identification often involve rigid mechanical grippers, dense sensor arrays, and exploratory procedures (EPs). Though EPs are a natural method for humans to acquire object information, evidence also exis...
Biomechanical Phenomena Animals Hand Strength Robotics Equipment Design Hand Fingers Touch Humans
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Spatially regularized machine learning for task and resting-state fMRI.

Journal of neuroscience methods Oct 16, 2015
BACKGROUND: Reliable mapping of brain function across sessions and/or subjects in task- and resting-state has been a critical challenge for quantitative fMRI studies although it has been intensively addressed in the past decades.
Humans Magnetic Resonance Imaging Linear Models Models, Neurological Rest Brain Brain Mapping Fingers Neuropsychological Tests Computer Simulation Datasets as Topic Neural Pathways Reproducibility of Results Motor Activity Support Vector Machine Visual Perception Mental Processes
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A Method for Automatic and Objective Scoring of Bradykinesia Using Orientation Sensors and Classification Algorithms.

IEEE transactions on bio-medical engineering Sep 18, 2015
Correct assessment of bradykinesia is a key element in the diagnosis and monitoring of Parkinson's disease. Its evaluation is based on a careful assessment of symptoms and it is quantified using rating scales, where the Movement Disorders Society-Spo...
Supervised Machine Learning Fingers Hypokinesia Middle Aged Diagnosis, Computer-Assisted Humans Support Vector Machine Female Parkinson Disease Aged Male
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Use of a robotic device to measure age-related decline in finger proprioception.

Experimental brain research Sep 16, 2015
Age-related changes in proprioception are known to affect postural stability, yet the extent to which such changes affect the finger joints is poorly understood despite the importance of finger proprioception in the control of skilled hand movement. ...
Aging Middle Aged Robotics Reaction Time Fingers Proprioception Feedback, Sensory Aged Aged, 80 and over Young Adult Adult Humans
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Anthropomorphic finger antagonistically actuated by SMA plates.

Bioinspiration & biomimetics Aug 20, 2015
Most robotic applications that contain shape memory alloy (SMA) actuators use the SMA in a linear or spring shape. In contrast, a novel robotic finger was designed in this paper using SMA plates that were thermomechanically trained to take the shape ...
Alloys Humans Equipment Failure Analysis Stress, Mechanical Muscle, Skeletal Transducers Robotics Elastic Modulus Fingers Equipment Design Muscle Contraction Biomimetics Hot Temperature
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Displaying Sensed Tactile Cues with a Fingertip Haptic Device.

IEEE transactions on haptics Jun 16, 2015
Telerobotic systems enable humans to explore and manipulate remote environments for applications such as surgery and disaster response, but few such systems provide the operator with cutaneous feedback. This article presents a novel approach to remot...
Fingers Touch Humans Robotics Physical Stimulation Algorithms Equipment Design Feedback Models, Biological Cues
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