An Open Source Tool for Simulating a Variety of Vision Impairments in Developing Swing Applications

Oikonomou, Theofanis; Votis, Konstantinos; Tzovaras, Dimitrios; Korn, Peter

doi:10.1007/978-3-642-02707-9_15

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“…For instance, AGNES (Age Gain Now Empathy System) developed by the MIT AgeLab is designed to simulate several impairments as visual, motor or flexibility of a person. Therefore, they use an overall besides many different other components as a helmet, glasses or ear plugs [ 16 ]. Other age simulation suits make use of an overall with an integrated exoskeleton, that is controlled by a computer to add force on the participants’ joints and thus complicate movement.…”

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Designing a Randomized Trial with an Age Simulation Suit—Representing People with Health Impairments

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Due to demographic change, there is an increasing demand for professional care services, whereby this demand cannot be met by available caregivers. To enable adequate care by relieving informal and formal care, the independence of people with chronic diseases has to be preserved for as long as possible. Assistance approaches can be used that support promoting physical activity, which is a main predictor of independence. One challenge is to design and test such approaches without affecting the people in focus. In this paper, we propose a design for a randomized trial to enable the use of an age simulation suit to generate reference data of people with health impairments with young and healthy participants. Therefore, we focus on situations of increased physical activity.

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Designing a Randomized Trial with an Age Simulation Suit—Representing People with Health Impairments

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“…Their main goal is to develop programmable systems that enable the simulation of several types/severity of impairment that can be easily selected and set. Specifically, the simulation of disabilities has been studied for visual impairments in the field of web-design and word processor software, with the development of simple software tools in [4], [5] and of a dedicated system for the design of accessible user interfaces based on EmD principles in [6].…”

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Desktop Haptic Interface for Simulation of Hand-Tremor

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Bergamasco

2016

IEEE Trans. Haptics

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This paper presents a haptic system that is conceived to support the design process of a class of products or services in order to make them more accessible to people affected by hand tremor diseases. The main aim is to foster the designer empathy allowing her/him to directly feel the effect of the impairment in first person. Specifically, a desktop haptic device is employed to induce a programmable hand-tremor, that is typically observed in people affected by some kind of neurological diseases, on healthy subjects (i.e., the designers). The developed tool is based on a wrist-attached haptic interface with a workspace that is comparable to that of the arm of the user. Such device is able to exert controlled forces on the user's wrist and induces a hand-tremor whose frequency and amplitude are correlated with those measured on impaired people. The control of the device is based on a custom trajectory-tracking algorithm that takes as input tremor signals that are acquired on patients using an optical motion tracking system. In this paper, we present the employed haptic system, the structure of the control system and the experimental validation of the controller done through the acquisition of data on six patients affected by Parkinson's disease.

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“…The simulation of disabilities has been studied for visual impairments in the field of web-design and word processor software with the development of simple software tools [4], [5]. A dedicated system for the design of accessible user interfaces based on EmD principles has been developed by Briner et al [6].…”

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Haptic hand-tremor simulation for enhancing empathy with disabled users

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This paper presents a system designed to induce, in healthy subjects, artificial hand-tremor that is observed in persons affected by neurological impairments. The objective is to allow a healthy user to feel in first person the effect of the impairment while performing common manipulative tasks in order for her/him to understand and gain empathy with the impaired person. The developed tool is based on a wristattached desktop haptic interface with a workspace that is comparable to that of the arm of the user. Such device is able to exert controlled forces on the user's wrist and induce hand-tremor whose frequency and amplitude is correlated with different pathologies. The control of the device is based on the recording and playback of tremor signals acquired by a motion tracker. In this paper, we present the system with its dynamic characteristics and three different types of controller are experimentally tested and compared.

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An Open Source Tool for Simulating a Variety of Vision Impairments in Developing Swing Applications

Cited by 5 publications

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Designing a Randomized Trial with an Age Simulation Suit—Representing People with Health Impairments

Designing a Randomized Trial with an Age Simulation Suit—Representing People with Health Impairments

Desktop Haptic Interface for Simulation of Hand-Tremor

Haptic hand-tremor simulation for enhancing empathy with disabled users

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