| Presentation | 1997/11/7 A Study on Head Movement as Control Commands of Welfare Apparatus for Seriously Paralyzed Persons Norio Furuse, Takashi Watanabe, Shigeo Ohba, Ryoko Futami, Nozomu Hoshimiya, Yasunobu Handa, |
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| Abstract(in English) | When seriously paralyzed persons (e.g., spinal cord injury patients) use a welfare apparatus, they have to control it with their residual motor functions. Two types of operations which consist of selection and confirmation are necessary for command input to the apparatus. In this study, a 3D position measurement device put on the head was used for control commands detection. The nodding was recognized by the artificial neural network connected with the device. The recognized nodding was used as the command for the confirmation. Then, in order to study command input apparatus using head movements, we constructed the character input apparatus which uses the confirmation together with the selection. The selection was made by the cervical flexion, extension, rotation and other head movements. We examined the performance of the command input apparatub in character-input and sentence-input with four normal subjects. The results suggested that the input apparatus was useful. |
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| Keyword(in English) | control command / head movement / 3D position measurement device / neural network |
| Paper # | MBE97-108 |
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| Conference Date | 1997/11/7(1days) |
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| Language | JPN |
| Title (in Japanese) | (See Japanese page) |
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| Title (in English) | A Study on Head Movement as Control Commands of Welfare Apparatus for Seriously Paralyzed Persons |
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| Keyword(1) | control command |
| Keyword(2) | head movement |
| Keyword(3) | 3D position measurement device |
| Keyword(4) | neural network |
| 1st Author's Name | Norio Furuse |
| 1st Author's Affiliation | Graduate School of Engineering, Tohoku University:Miyagi National College of Technology() |
| 2nd Author's Name | Takashi Watanabe |
| 2nd Author's Affiliation | Graduate School of Engineering, Tohoku University |
| 3rd Author's Name | Shigeo Ohba |
| 3rd Author's Affiliation | Graduate School of Engineering, Tohoku University |
| 4th Author's Name | Ryoko Futami |
| 4th Author's Affiliation | Graduate School of Engineering, Tohoku University |
| 5th Author's Name | Nozomu Hoshimiya |
| 5th Author's Affiliation | Graduate School of Engineering, Tohoku University |
| 6th Author's Name | Yasunobu Handa |
| 6th Author's Affiliation | Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine |
| Date | 1997/11/7 |
| Paper # | MBE97-108 |
| Volume (vol) | vol.97 |
| Number (no) | 371 |
| Page | pp.pp.- |
| #Pages | 8 |
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