Object-driven rehabilitation: Ab.Acus development of a novel concept
Upper limb hemiparesis is widely reported in the literature as one of the primary impairments following stroke. While many patients recover ambulatory function after dense hemiplegia, restoration of arm motor skills is often incomplete. Rehabilitation’s outcomes often conclude in incomplete motor recovery and over 60% of patients cannot use their paretic hand in functional activities [1]. Nevertheless, the recovery of voluntary arm movements is one of the most important goals during stroke rehabilitation in order to avoid long-term disability in
HRI what is it and why is needed?
Robots are more and more part of our life: they can be met in a hospital, in a supermarket, or even when you are walking along the street. More generally they are called service robots to specify the diversity from the industrial ones. This trend is confirmed by the annual International Federation of Robotics (IFR) press release: “Robots are clearly on the rise, in manufacturing and increasingly in everyday environments […] Future product visions point to domestic robots of higher
Smartphone apps and wearable devices for monitoring and prevention of chronic diseases
The increasing prevalence of mobile devices among patients of all demographic groups has the potential to transform the ways we diagnose, monitor, treat, and study chronic disease. Sensors in our phones leave a stream of digital traces. Personal sensing refers to collecting and analysing data from sensors embedded in the context of daily life with the aim of identifying human behaviours and traits. The emerging paradigm of Internet of Things (IoT) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) offers unprecedented opportunities for m-Health
May motion analysis help ASD early diagnosis?
Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD), grouping besides autism, a wider spectrum of symptoms, refer to a series of abnormal manifestations of cognitive development that can emerge in babies between 6 and 24 months, for example: deficiency in verbal and non-verbal communication, deficiency in social interactions, repetitive and stereotyped behaviours. Autism is classified as neurological pathology and it has been detected for the first time in the early years of 1900. Since then the disease has been object of study, because what triggers it has not been
MoveCare: a revolution for the third age
It’s been recently published by University of Adelaide a study that focuses on the application of artificial intelligence in diagnostic field, with the aim of determining who, among the subjects involved, has major probabilities of decease in a temporal horizon equal to 5 years (https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-017-01931-w ). Far beyond simplistic gruesome consideration one may easily express, the goal of the research is set to be the prevention of non-immediately detectable pathologies that still during the years evolve damaging human body and bringing