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Quantitative assessment of hand motor function in cervical spinal disorder patients using target tracking tests.

Journal of rehabilitation research and development
Cervical spondylotic myelopathy (CSM) is a chronic spinal disorder in the neck region. Its prevalence is growing rapidly in developed nations, creating a need for an objective assessment tool. This article introduces a system for quantifying hand mot...

A Computational Index to Describe Slacking During Robot Therapy.

Advances in experimental medicine and biology
Movement facilitation has a fundamental role in the rehabilitation treatment of stroke survivors. However, its action mechanisms are still poorly understood. An open question is to identify the effect of the level of assistance on the recovery proces...

Haptic Neurorehabilitation and Virtual Reality for Upper Limb Paralysis: A Review.

Critical reviews in biomedical engineering
Motor and sensory loss or dysfunction affects the quality of life for thousands of individuals daily. The upper limb, and especially the hand, are important for a person's ability to complete activities of daily living. Traditional therapy methods fo...

Classification of Movement of People with Parkinsons Disease Using Wearable Inertial Movement Units and Machine Learning.

Studies in health technology and informatics
In this work, inertial movement units were placed on people with Parkinsons disease (PwPD) who subsequently performed a standard test of walking endurance (six-minute walk test - 6MWT). Five devices were placed on each the limbs and small of the back...

Anticipating Human Activities Using Object Affordances for Reactive Robotic Response.

IEEE transactions on pattern analysis and machine intelligence
An important aspect of human perception is anticipation, which we use extensively in our day-to-day activities when interacting with other humans as well as with our surroundings. Anticipating which activities will a human do next (and how) can enabl...

Robot-Assisted Reach Training for Improving Upper Extremity Function of Chronic Stroke.

The Tohoku journal of experimental medicine
Stroke, as a major risk factor for chronic impairment of upper limb function, can severely restrict the activities of daily living. Recently, robotic devices have been used to enhance the functional upper extremity movement of stroke patients. The pu...

Neuromodelling based on evolutionary robotics: on the importance of motor control for spatial attention.

Cognitive processing
Mainstream approaches to modelling cognitive processes have typically focused on (1) reproducing their neural underpinning, without regard to sensory-motor systems and (2) producing a single, ideal computational model. Evolutionary robotics is an alt...

New frontiers in the rubber hand experiment: when a robotic hand becomes one's own.

Behavior research methods
The rubber hand illusion is an experimental paradigm in which participants consider a fake hand to be part of their body. This paradigm has been used in many domains of psychology (i.e., research on pain, body ownership, agency) and is of clinical im...

3D-printed soft microrobot for swimming in biological fluids.

Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Annual International Conference
Microscopic artificial swimmers hold the potential to enable novel non-invasive medical procedures. In order to ease their translation towards real biomedical applications, simpler designs as well as cheaper yet more reliable materials and fabricatio...

Design and evaluation of a trilateral shared-control architecture for teleoperated training robots.

Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Annual International Conference
Multilateral teleoperated robots can be used to train humans to perform complex tasks that require collaborative interaction and expert supervision, such as laparoscopic surgical procedures. In this paper, we explain the design and performance evalua...