Lower limb wearable robots are entering an exciting era. An increasing number of solutions are moving out of the lab, approaching the everyday rehabilitation practice and home-based assistive scenarios. In this context, the quantitative assessment of ...

In this paper we present the preliminary findings of 3 patterns of abnormal movement observed with some individuals during VR reaching tasks in a shoulder rehabilitation application. These motions are consistent with models of rigid system behavior and ...

The monitoring of sleeping behavioral patterns is of major importance for various reasons such as the detection and treatment of sleep disorders, the assessment of the effect of different medical conditions or medications on the sleep quality, and the ...

The estimation of human attention as input modality has been suggested as a method for an advanced human-computer interaction. With an increasing interest and development of augmented reality tools, the advent of Microsoft HoloLens glasses and ...

Many vulnerable individuals own an assistance dog. Previous work has shown that a domestic alarm, Ringsel, allows assistance dogs to "call for help" via a canine interface that they interact with by pulling a detachment off with their mouths. Here we ...

According to W.H.O., 360 million people worldwide have disabling hearing loss [1]. However, a number of patients are afraid to consider hearing loss a problem and subsequently are afraid to seek medical help for the hearing loss. This may potentially ...

In this paper, we describe an ingestible sensor system to evaluate medication adherence in elderly people. After drug ingestion, an ingestible sensor, attached on the pill, is activated upon contact with gastric fluid and communicates with a wearable ...

Automatic human action recognition is a research topic that has attracted significant attention lately, mainly due to the advancements in sensing technologies and the improvements in computational systems' power. However, complexity in human movements, ...

The present work examines the potential of the usage of smartphones in order to offer health services to elderly patients. The purpose of this work is the design, development, and implementation of a telemedicine application. This application aims to ...

Ensuring mobility of the elderly is an important task in our aging society. To this end, this paper presents an automatic speed controller for the SmartWalker -- a high-tech extension of a regular walker. The walker locates its user by detecting the ...

Accurate identification and timely handling of involuntary events, such as falls, plays a crucial part in effective assistive environment systems. Fall detection, in particular, is quite critical, especially in households of lonely elderly people. ...

Well understanding guidance instructions when using an electronic orientation aids is vital for people with visual impairments to reach destinations or avoid obstacles and hazards. In this paper we describes a study about how to make use of a tactile ...

This paper presents our work in developing a 3D Avatar representation of a physical therapist, to guide the rehabilitation process of patient, while the therapist is not physically present. We describe our development approach, and assess the motion ...

Assistive robots that address different impairments and continuously changing capabilities by providing manifold interactions based on profiles are not targeted in current research. Substantiated by a survey of human-robot interaction for assistive ...

The DOMUS laboratory has recently participated in the construction of a brand new residence for persons with Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI). This building which comprises six apartments, and four bedrooms is equipped with the latest smart home technology (...

Declines in cognitive function with advancing age may cause performance decrements and stress in older workers who have to do complex work. We aimed to develop a system for complex assessment of cognitive load in older employees with parallel ...

Augmentative and alternative communication tools allow people with severe motor disabilities to interact with computers. Two commonly used tools are video-based interfaces and eye trackers. Video-based interfaces map head movements captured by a camera ...

Gamification is an ever more popular method to increase motivation and user experience in real-world settings. It is widely used in the areas of marketing, health and education. However, in production environments, it is a new concept. To be accepted in ...

Mobile physical-activity sensing and recognition in daily life can support medical and physiotherapeutic therapies by providing additional objective information. In our future scenario the patient is not equipped with any specialized sensor devices but ...

Accessible games have been researched and developed for many years, however, blind people still have very limited access and knowledge of them. This can pose a serious limitation, especially for blind children, since in recent years electronic games ...