Assistive Technology Research

KEY FINDING: All 4 patients improved over the course of training, as their scores trended towards the expert users’ scores.

KEY FINDING: Classifiers trained and tested using within-subject cross-validation in the lab provided an accuracy of 91.6%.

KEY FINDING: Current assistive devices often fall short of meeting the needs of people with disabilities, leading to disappointment and rejection.

KEY FINDING: Participants demonstrated varying initial abilities and improvement rates in using the powered exoskeleton.

KEY FINDING: Patients in the observation group achieved therapeutic locomotion (8 cases), family-based locomotion (7 cases), and community-based locomotion (3 cases) after 3 months of rehabilitation training with individualized paraplegic braces.

KEY FINDING: The results show that, even with significant errors in the marker position estimation, method accuracy is adequate for RAR.

KEY FINDING: EIKPE renders a good numerical approximation of the actual posture during compound movement execution, especially for the shoulder joint angles.

KEY FINDING: Acute changes to the shoulder's soft tissues occur after manual wheelchair propulsion under different workload settings, impacting shoulder joint kinetics.

KEY FINDING: All participants completed the device-training and achieved basic competences to use the system, including standing up, sitting down, balancing, and walking indoors with assistance.

KEY FINDING: Shoulder adductor strength on the weaker side significantly predicts performance in the 20-meter propulsion test, explaining 53% of the variance.