An Auto-Adaptive Interface for Neuromuscular Disabilities

针对神经肌肉障碍的自适应界面

• 批准号: 7459482
• 负责人: AARON B OLOWIN
• 金额: $ 39.31万
• 依托单位: BARRON ASSOCIATES, INC.
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2007
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2007-07-01 至 2010-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/7459482
• 关键词: Adoption; Algorithms; Articular Range of Motion; Calibration; Child; Collaborations; Computer information processing; Computer software; Computers; Development; Devices; Disabled Persons; Dystonia; Feedback; Hand; Head; Human; Individual; Joystick; Measures; Methods; Motor; Movement; Mus; Muscle Rigidity; Muscle Weakness; Neuromuscular Diseases; Noise; Performance; Phase; Physiological; Range of motion exercise; Rehabilitation Centers; Research; Research Personnel; Self-Help Devices; Series; Solutions; Spinal cord injury; Stimulus; Study Section; System; Tactile; Techniques; Technology; Testing; Time; Trackball Device Component; Tremor; Universities; Upper arm; User-Computer Interface; Virginia; Work; abstracting; base; cost; design; disability; experience; human subject; improved; indexing; novel; programs; prototype; success; theories

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The proposed research involves the development of assistive technology that is based upon a force-feedback joystick. The Barron Associates Joystick Appliance (BAJA) is targeted at individuals with neuromuscular problems in their arms and/or hands and will compensate for many deficiencies in the operator's own movement capabilities, including lack of strength, coordination, range of motion limitations, and physiologic noise (e.g., tremors). The BAJA's corrective action can provide tactile and proprioceptive stimuli that many users find to be more satisfying and effective than indirect solutions that are based exclusively on software. Unlike other human-computer interface devices, the BAJA can adapt quickly and robustly to a wide variety of different disabilities, including manifestations of spasticity, dystonia, and rigidity, as well as spinal cord injury and muscular weakness. Adaptability is particularly important because no single solution works well for all types of disabilities. Adapting the BAJA for an individual user, as well as quantifocation of the performance improvement realized with its use, is achieved through a novel method that captures the information processing capacity of the human motor system.

描述（由申请人提供）：拟议的研究涉及基于力反馈操纵杆的辅助技术的开发。巴伦联合操纵杆器具（BAJA）针对在其手臂和/或手部中具有神经肌肉问题的个体，并且将补偿操作者自身运动能力中的许多缺陷，包括缺乏力量、协调、运动范围限制和生理噪声（例如，震颤）。BAJA的矫正动作可以提供触觉和本体感受刺激，许多用户发现这比完全基于软件的间接解决方案更令人满意和有效。与其他人机界面设备不同，BAJA可以快速、稳健地适应各种不同的残疾，包括痉挛、肌张力障碍和僵硬的表现，以及脊髓损伤和肌肉无力。适应性特别重要，因为没有一个单一的解决方案能很好地适用于所有类型的残疾。适应BAJA为个人用户，以及量化的性能改善实现了与其使用，是通过一种新的方法，捕捉人类运动系统的信息处理能力。