Future bathroom: A study of user-centred design principles affecting usability, safety and satisfaction in bathrooms for people living with disabilities

Research and development work relating to assistive technology 2010-11 (Department of Health) Presented to Parliament pursuant to Section 22 of the Chronically Sick and Disabled Persons Act 197

Electric Wheelchair Navigation Simulators: why, when, how?

International audienc

Empowering and assisting natural human mobility: The simbiosis walker

This paper presents the complete development of the Simbiosis Smart Walker. The device is equipped with a set of sensor subsystems to acquire user-machine interaction forces and the temporal evolution of user's feet during gait. The authors present an adaptive filtering technique used for the identification and separation of different components found on the human-machine interaction forces. This technique allowed isolating the components related with the navigational commands and developing a Fuzzy logic controller to guide the device. The Smart Walker was clinically validated at the Spinal Cord Injury Hospital of Toledo - Spain, presenting great acceptability by spinal chord injury patients and clinical staf

Rehabilitation and Exercise Machine

An improved rehabilitation and exercise machine is provided which allows a person with physical limitations, disabilities or chronic conditions to use the machine in order to rehabilitate their muscles, improve joint flexibility, and enhance cardiovascular fitness

EVA: EVAluating at-home rehabilitation exercises using augmented reality and low-cost sensors

Over one billion people in the world live with some form of disability. This is incessantly increasing due to aging population and chronic diseases. Among the emerging social needs, rehabilitation services are the most required. However, they are scarce and expensive what considerably limits access to them. In this paper, we propose EVA, an augmented reality platform to engage and supervise rehabilitation sessions at home using low-cost sensors. It also stores the user’s statistics and allows therapists to tailor the exercise programs according to their performance. This system has been evaluated in both qualitative and quantitative ways obtaining very promising results.This work has been supported by the Spanish Government TIN2016-76515R Grant, supported with Feder funds. Edmanuel Cruz is funded by a Panamenian grant for Ph.D. studies IFARHU and SENACYT 270-2016-207. This work has also been supported by a Spanish grant for PhD studies ACIF/2017/243 and FPU16/00887. Thanks also to Nvidia for the generous donation of a Titan Xp and a Quadro P6000