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Pediatric Wheelchair Transportation Safety: Transit Manual Wheelchair Design Guidelines and Injury Risk of 6-year-old Children in a Frontal Motor Vehicle Impact [PDF]

open access: yes, 2004
Children with disabilities often cannot be seated in standard child seats or automobile seats because of physical deformities or poor trunk and head control.
Ha, DongRan
core  

A Low-Cost Tele-Presence Wheelchair System

open access: yes, 2016
This paper presents the architecture and implementation of a tele-presence wheelchair system based on tele-presence robot, intelligent wheelchair, and touch screen technologies.
Jia, Yunde   +3 more
core   +1 more source

Association Between Symptomatic Knee Osteoarthritis and Target Glycemic Control in Individuals with Type 2 Diabetes

open access: yesArthritis Care &Research, Accepted Article.
Objective Knee osteoarthritis (OA) commonly affects individuals with Type 2 diabetes (T2DM) and is associated with increased risk of diabetes‐related complications. To better understand potential mechanisms, we examined the association between symptomatic knee OA and glycemic control in individuals with T2DM.
Lauren K. King   +10 more
wiley   +1 more source

Proposals of Control Paradigms Applied to a Brain-Controlled Wheelchair [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
Proposals of Control Paradigms Applied to a Brain-Controlled Wheelchair, Ron-Angevin R., Velasco-Álvarez F., Fernández Rodriguez A., Proceeding og the BITs 4th Annual World Congress of Smart Material 2018, Osaka (Japan), 6-8 March 2018Several of the ...
Fernández-Rodríguez, Álvaro   +2 more
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Recent Progress on Flexible Multimodal Sensors: Decoupling Strategies, Fabrication and Applications

open access: yesAdvanced Materials, EarlyView.
In this review, we establish a tripartite decoupling framework for flexible multimodal sensors, which elucidates the underlying principles of signal crosstalk and their solutions through material design, structural engineering, and AI algorithms. We also demonstrate its potential applications across environmental monitoring, health monitoring, human ...
Tao Wu   +10 more
wiley   +1 more source

Wheelchair service provision education in academia

open access: yesAfrican Journal of Disability, 2017
Background: An estimated 70 million people with disabilities need wheelchairs. To address this global crisis, the World Health Organization (WHO) proposed an eight-step wheelchair service provision model to ensure service quality regardless of resource ...
Karen H. Fung   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Flexible Sensor‐Based Human–Machine Interfaces with AI Integration for Medical Robotics

open access: yesAdvanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
This review explores how flexible sensing technology and artificial intelligence (AI) significantly enhance human–machine interfaces in medical robotics. It highlights key sensing mechanisms, AI‐driven advancements, and applications in prosthetics, exoskeletons, and surgical robotics.
Yuxiao Wang   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Wheelchair Servicing for Older Adults: Cross-Sectional Study

open access: yesJMIR Rehabilitation and Assistive Technologies
BackgroundWheelchairs are assistive mobility devices known to experience frequent part failures and breakdowns within 6 months of regular use. No tools or technologies exist to monitor the wheelchairs’ condition or usage and inform stakeholders and users
Anand Mhatre   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Rethinking Power Solutions for Healthcare Wearables: From Point‐of‐Care and Episodic use to Continuous Monitoring and Therapeutic Platforms

open access: yesAdvanced Energy and Sustainability Research, EarlyView.
This Perspective examines practical power solutions for wearable healthcare systems, highlighting the limits of standard batteries. It categorizes wearables into four domains—point‐of‐care diagnostics, episodic monitoring, continuous long‐term monitoring, and therapeutic platforms—and analyzes their power needs.
Seokheun Choi
wiley   +1 more source

Combining brain-computer interfaces and assistive technologies: state-of-the-art and challenges [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
In recent years, new research has brought the field of EEG-based Brain-Computer Interfacing (BCI) out of its infancy and into a phase of relative maturity through many demonstrated prototypes such as brain-controlled wheelchairs, keyboards, and computer ...
Cincott, F.   +12 more
core   +7 more sources

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