Towards an intelligent and supportive environment for people with physical or cognitive restrictions

AmbienNet environment has been developed with the aim of demonstrating the feasibility of accessible intelligent environments designed to support people with disabilities and older persons living independently. Its main purpose is to examine in depth the advantages and disadvantages of pervasive supporting systems based on the paradigm of Ambient Intelligence for people with sensory, physical or cognitive limitations. Hence diverse supporting technologies and applications have been designed in order to test their accessibility, ease of use and validity. This paper presents the architecture of AmbienNet intelligent environment and an intelligent application to support indoors navigation for smart wheelchairs designed for validation purposes.Ministerio de Educación y Ciencia TIN2006-15617-C[01,02,03

Requirements for Upper-Limb Rehabilitation with FES and Exoskeleton

In the last work, we have presented the scope of our project, i.e. use cases of activities of daily living (ADL) for the on-going project a.k.a. iCARE. The project mainly handles the upper-limb rehabilitation in general, however, we have narrowed down the scope and focus on, in terms of the phase of the stroke recovery, the target body area of rehabilitation and the level of muscle function. In this paper, we have drawn the user and system requirements before design the specific functions of the targeted device. First, we have defined the stakeholders for the device and the rehabilitation service scenarios. Next, the user requirements are defined and finally the related system requirements are drawn.This research was financially supported by the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy (MOTIE) and Korea Institute for Advancement of Technology (KIAT) through the International Cooperative R&D program (P0007114-InterConnected Intelligent Sensing and Actuation Solutions for At-home Rehabilitation (iCARE)(2020))