By virtue of lacking visual feedback or access to verbal communication, people with a sensory impairment use alternative means for information imaging that rely on residual senses. For this reason, a wide range of assistive hardware and software came into the market to provide an efficient way of alternative imaging, for instance, of textual information. Nevertheless, nearly one third of these ...

A primary goal of comparative biomechanics is to understand the fundamental physics of locomotion within an evolutionary context. Such an understanding of legged locomotion results in a transition from copying nature to borrowing strategies for interacting with the physical world regarding design and control of bio-inspired legged robots or robotic assistive devices. Inspired from nature, legge...

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We present an online fully unsupervised approach for automatically extracting video guides of how objects are used from wearable gaze trackers worn by multiple users. Given egocentric video and eye gaze from multiple users performing tasks, the system discovers task-relevant objects and automatically extracts guidance videos on how these objects have been used. In the assistive mode, the paper ...

BACKGROUND Patients with chronic whiplash associated disorders (WAD) demonstrate altered central pain processing and impaired endogenous analgesia. In addition, previous research reported disturbances in the autonomic nervous system and the presence of post-traumatic stress reaction in patients with chronic WAD. The autonomic nervous system, in particular the autonomic stress response, might mo...

PURPOSE Stressors in acute whiplash associated disorders (WAD), as reported on a daily basis, have hitherto been neglected in research. The primary aim of this study was to describe the most stressful daily situation or event reported by individuals with acute WAD within a month of a whiplash trauma. Another aim was to describe the meaning and significance of these daily stressors, i.e. primary...

The purpose of this study was to conduct a cross-validation of the bidimensional structure of a satisfaction measure with assistive technology. Data were drawn from a follow-up study of 243 subjects who had been administered the Dutch version of the Quebec User Evaluation of Satisfaction with assistive Technology (QUEST). Ratings related to 12 satisfaction items were analysed. Factor analysis r...

A Brain Computer Interface (BCI) provides direct communication from the brain to a computer or electronic device. In order for BCIs to become practical assistive devices it is necessary to develop robust systems, which can be used outside of the laboratory. This paper appraises the technical challenges, and outlines the design of an intuitive user interface, which can be used for smart device c...

This report discusses the aspect of user interfaces on wearable computers. Today wearable computers can be of very different size and capabilities. The way of communicating with the user also varies for different devices. This paper looks into several different approaches of describing a user interface that is independent of the underlying device and architecture.

The increasing popularity of wearable devices has raised the importance of human-centric services, such as healthcare, physical training, smart assistant, and its applications. In this paper, we focus on a hybrid drowsiness detection system to use wearable sensor devices for measuring drowsiness. We make following contributions: (1) an auto-configurable and adaptive middleware framework to mana...