An Eye Movement Tracking System

There is a critical shortage of guide animals for the blind and guide horses are an appropriate assistance animal for thousands of visually impaired people in the USA. In early experiments, Guide Horses have shown great promise as a mobility option, and people who have tried Guide Horses report that the Guide Horses perform exceptionally well at keeping their person safe. These friendly horses provide an experimental alternative mobility option for blind people. People who have tried Guide Horses report that the horses demonstrate excellent judgment and are not easily distracted by crowds and people.

During the 4-hour wheelchair activity, I assumed the role of a paraplegic. Since the activity was simulated in a school environment, I also assumed the role of a student. The activity is focused on the perspective of a paraplegic student attending college. Navigating around the school, finding w/c access points around the school vicinity, and going about daily school routines were the primary challenges that were undertaken. Few minutes into the activity, I was trying to figure out what is the most efficient way to propel the w/c. I noticed that most of the power for w/c propulsion comes from the shoulder. Proper trunk positioning and good UE ROM are essential for w/c ambulation.

With the function of these muscles, the individual should have the ability to be independent in rolling, feeding, and dressing of the upper body.5 They are also independent in pressure relief with the use of the wheelchair.6 However, assistance is required for dressing of the lower body, some self-care activities, and transfers, particularly to the commode, although the potential for independence with a sliding board is possible for transfers. Driving is possible with specific accommodations made to the van and with the use of adaptive hand controls. Employment outside the home is also possible if desired for individuals with this level of injury. A manual wheelchair with hand rim projections is typically used and is easier to propel on smooth, level surfaces; therefore, a power wheelchair may be needed for out in the

— Elderly people suffering from Dementia and Alzheimer meet with a progressive cognitive decline making them experience hardship in performing their everyday conventional activities especially in their outdoor navigation as they tend to forget landmarks even in familiar environments due to gradual decline in their memory and thinking abilities. Hence, disorientation and wandering become common issue. Providing assistive guidance to the elderly people in their outdoor mobility has become a challenging task for caretakers and family members as most of the elders prefer to live independently. Thus, there arises a need for efficient solutions that can monitor the elderly people movements and notify the caretakers in the event of disorientation or wandering being detected.

The Joystick could be a value effective answer to robotic rehabilitation that uses a poster force feedback joystick together with on-line games designed specifically for handicapped stroke rehabilitation patients. A special hand-wrist orthosis is mounted on the joystick to convey the patient support for taking part in the

Improved Coordination: Quick coordination between hands, legs, eyes, ears, and brain is a must to operate the wheelchair. Neurologists believe that like any able person, the chair cycling mechanism enables the individual to pedal without thinking, improving both motor and neurological functions of the body. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJy7K1STFyg). Additionally, controlling the break with hands can strengthen the hand

Essential tremors, the most common form of tremors, are prevalent at some scale in approximately 98% of the elderly population. This type of tremor becomes more severe with age, rendering simple daily tasks such as cooking and writing very difficult, due to the involuntary movement. With such a large percentage of senior citizens affected, much of the population would benefit from a solution to this issue. Therefore, this study demonstrates an experimental design that has been created to reduce oscillations caused by the tremors, thus increasing hand dexterity in tremor sufferers. To do this, a combination of gyroscopes and weight were made into a glove that patients could wear to counteract movement from the tremor, allowing the patient to

The human observer is quite efficient at detecting motion. If a target is detectable when still, it becomes even more so when it is in motion. The brain uses multiple cues to help us perceive motion including information from all of our senses. The focus of this paper will be the visual system and how motion is perceived visually. Motion is in part perceived by the changing patterns of light on the retina. This cannot account for total motion perception, however, because we can perceive motion while keeping an image stable on our retina or create changes in these light patterns by moving our head and eyes. In order to turn these spatial patterns of light into information about motion we must integrate

A need to evaluate new technologies such as smart wheelchair rose, and so, a study was

The reason behind this study is to further understand the role gaze patterns play in autism, it was only 3 years ago that I discovered my son is autistic. Ever since that day I have dedicated my life to understanding the role that social cognition may play in determining autism. Visual checking of countenances in people with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) has been seriously considered utilizing eye-following innovation (gaze patterns). Nevertheless, the clear majority of studies have depended on the same investigative approach in view of the measurement of obsession time, which may have neglected to uncover some essential components of the examining techniques utilized by

As a consequence of the accumulation of stresses being placed on the joints in the upper extremity of wheelchair athletes during tasks of competition, training and day to day life, the upper limbs and in particular the shoulder appear commonly injured.(Churton & Keogh, 2013). Churton and Keogh (2013) determined through the use of electromyography (EMG) that in the majority of activities undertaken by wheelchair users, the shoulder girdle is the primary source of power. The shoulder is not structured suitably for repetitive loading, rather it is

Bowling is a very popular sport among all types of people. For the disabled, there exists the “Poss-I-Bowl”, that gives them the ability to play this recreational and competitive game. The player controls the device from a switch that is attached to the tubular bowling ramp, that allows the player to release the ball by pressing it. The player establishes what is the right angle, and the force with which the ball will be thrown

When studying the mechanical properties of motor units, important parameters (among motor units of the EO system) are fusion frequency, fatigability and force output. By integrating the fusion frequency and fatigability of motor units, the twitch motor units can be divided into 4 subgroups: fast fatigable (FF), fast fatigue resistant (FR), slow fatigable (SF) and slow fatigue resistant (S). The fifth subgroup was comprised of nontwitch (NT) motor units, which constituted 10% of the total population (Shall & Goldberg, 1992).

Here, he will be explaining the ways that can be used to achieve the goal of our project which is to build a fully functioning wheelchair. The problems that can be faced are predicted and presented here, and the ways to rectify these problems will also be presented here. Any data recorded that will help in the effective design of the wheelchair will be documented here.

Abstract— Blindness is one of the most feared afflictions in the world. It is difficult to travel to a desired destination for blind people. This system eases this process by providing two core facilities – a short range obstacle detection system and a source-to-destination shortest path guidance system. The features of this device are real time Obstacle Detection, Distress Calling, global position monitoring, Voice Command functionality & Shortest Route Guidance. The System hopes to provide blind people to simply press a button from mobile, speak the desired destination & be guided there by the system’s audio instructions. The goal is to develop a system that will provide guidance for visually impaired individuals to reach desired destination.