Studying Upper-Limb Amputee Prosthesis Use to Inform Device Design

Abstract

The proposed project investigates the nature of upper limb prosthesis use in everyday tasks through in-home and lab-based studies on upper-limb amputees andmatched unimpaired subjects. During the second year we recruited amputee participants and completed several at-home portions of the study. A study of the resulting videos led to a new prosthetics-use taxonomy that is generalizable to various levels of amputation and terminal devices. The taxonomy was applied to classification of the recorded videos via custom tagging software with midi controller interface. The software creates Matlab-readable log files. Motion capture development of a body compensation experiment and kinematics based metric were also made. In the next year recruitment of amputee and able bodied participants will continue in an effort to complete more studies and generate data for analysis.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Oct 01, 2017
Accession Number
AD1042896

Entities

People

  • Aaron Dollar

Organizations

  • Yale University

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Amputees
  • Assistive Technologies
  • Classification
  • Compensation
  • Data Analysis
  • Medical Personnel
  • Motion Capture
  • Prostheses And Implants
  • Prosthesis Fitting
  • Prosthetics
  • Robotics
  • Social Media
  • Students
  • Surgical Amputations
  • Taxonomy
  • Upper Limb Amputees
  • Upper Limb Prostheses

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