provides detailed coverage of the broad range of devices, services, and practices that comprise assistive technology. This new text offers a systematic process for ensuring the effective application of assistive technologies — and focuses on the relationship between the human user and the assisted acti...
Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada Simo Pajovic & Yichao Shi Department of Materials, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland Ahmad Rafsanjani John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA Ka...
The physical sensors relevant to the present study range from sensors monitoring activity of electrical devices in the house (e.g. “fridge door is open,”“microwave is on,”“TV is on” etc.), to sensors attached to furniture (e.g. detecting operation of cupboard door, drawers etc.),...
SL-SWS: Step length at self-selected walking speed SWS: Self-selected walking speed TKA: Total knee arthroplasty WOMAC: Western Ontario and McMaster Universities Osteoarthritis Index WOMAC-f: Subscale of function in WOMAC WOMAC-p: Subscale of pain in WOMAC ...
Robot-assistive surgery [34,35,36,37,38], and invasive (e.g., InterStim) and non-invasive devices (e.g., inFlow) [19,39,40] are presented as current clinically approved treatments. However, due to the many adverse side-effects, assistive electronic devices better suited to manage ...
Based on the Human Activity Assistive Technology (HAAT) model, Assistive Technologies: Principles and Practice, 4th Edition provides detailed coverage of the broad range of devices, services, and practices that comprise assistive technology, and focuses on the relationship between the human user and ...