AIMC Topic: Persons with Disabilities

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A high-resolution tongue-based joystick to enable robot control for individuals with severe disabilities.

IEEE ... International Conference on Rehabilitation Robotics : [proceedings]
Assistive robotic arms have shown the potential to improve the quality of life of people with severe disabilities. However, a high performance and intuitive control interface for robots with 6-7 DOFs is still missing for these individuals. An inducti...

Voice Control Interface Prototype for Assistive Robots for People Living with Upper Limb Disabilities.

IEEE ... International Conference on Rehabilitation Robotics : [proceedings]
This paper presents a voice control interface prototype for assistive robots aiming to help people living with upper limb disabilities to perform daily activities autonomously. Assistive robotic devices can be used to help people with upper-body disa...

Design, analysis and performance evaluation of a hand gesture platform for navigation.

Technology and health care : official journal of the European Society for Engineering and Medicine
Prevailing technological solutions that address the problems that are experienced by the infirm and elderly people in terms of locomotion needs, offer limited options when it comes to control mechanism and customization. For more than a decade, joyst...

Impacts of robotic arm use on individuals with upper extremity disabilities: A scoping review.

Canadian journal of occupational therapy. Revue canadienne d'ergotherapie
BACKGROUND.: Robotic arms may help users perform various activities. Even though robotic arms are commercially available, their impacts are still poorly understood.

Prediction of user preference over shared-control paradigms for a robotic wheelchair.

IEEE ... International Conference on Rehabilitation Robotics : [proceedings]
The design of intelligent powered wheelchairs has traditionally focused heavily on providing effective and efficient navigation assistance. Significantly less attention has been given to the end-user's preference between different assistance paradigm...

Comparative performance analysis of M-IMU/EMG and voice user interfaces for assistive robots.

IEEE ... International Conference on Rehabilitation Robotics : [proceedings]
People with a high level of disability experience great difficulties to perform activities of daily living and resort to their residual motor functions in order to operate assistive devices. The commercially available interfaces used to control assis...

Towards a situation-and-user-aware multi-modal motorized toilet system to assist older adults with disabilities: A user requirements study.

IEEE ... International Conference on Rehabilitation Robotics : [proceedings]
In the recent decades state of the art technologies appeared in many areas to assist older adults with disabilities. However, one very essential activity of daily life, the toileting remained without any relevant development. The iToilet project of t...

Automatic health record review to help prioritize gravely ill Social Security disability applicants.

Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA
OBJECTIVE: Every year, thousands of patients die waiting for disability benefits from the Social Security Administration. Some qualify for expedited service under the Compassionate Allowance (CAL) initiative, but CAL software focuses exclusively on i...

Task-Oriented Performance Evaluation for Assistive Robotic Manipulators: A Pilot Study.

American journal of physical medicine & rehabilitation
OBJECTIVE: The objectives of this study were to evaluate the performance of commercially available assistive robotic manipulators (ARMs) user interfaces and to investigate the concurrent validity and sensitivity to change with task-oriented performan...