Sonarmen undergoing refresher training in the Sonar Operational Trainer compared, while on "sonar watch," the comfort of four seating designs: a contoured automobile seat with an adjustable backrest; a "kneeling" chair; a conventional office chair with an inflatable lumbar support pillow; and a conventional office chair. The subj ects were asked to use each seat for an entire day --unless it wa...

56 Y/O woman diagnosed with Alzheimer’s Disease and has been in a nursing home, and wheel chair bound, for 4 years. She stopped eating and was brought to the County Psychiatric Center ER. She was admitted to the Neuropsychiatry ward. In reviewing her history a complete work up was never performed. A comprehensive evaluation was started including blood work,CT and EEG. There was nothing signific...

-This project is related to the voice controlled wheel chair system in which the wheelchair and devices are controlled by using the speech recognition module. The aim of this project is to give the facility to the handicapped or disabled people which are not able to move well. In this project, we have developed the program which controls the wheelchair using speech recognition and the home appl...

Methods for the three-dimensional (3-D) kinematic analysis of the shoulder complex (humerus relative to trunk) are presented and their use demonstrated in this analysis of shoulder motion during wheelchair propulsion. Ten subjects propelled two different wheelchairs (adjustable and conventional chairs) while the motions of the left arm and trunk were measured using a video tracking system. Eule...

A new hybrid wheelchair/bed system for assisting the bedridden has been developed and tested. The powered wheelchair docks with a stationary bed and reconfigures to a chair to provide full mobility assistance by eliminating the need to transfer the bedridden person from bed to chair. Furthermore, the chair can dock directly and automatically with a toilet to eliminate the need to change seating...