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 and matched 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
Dec 01, 2018
Accession Number
AD1087233

Entities

People

  • Aaron Dollar
  • Adam Spiers
  • Kate Barnabe
  • Linda Resnik

Organizations

  • Yale University

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Engineered Resilient Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Amputees
  • Assistive Technologies
  • Biomedical Research
  • Medical Personnel
  • Prostheses And Implants
  • Prosthetics
  • Social Media
  • Statistical Analysis
  • Students
  • Surgical Amputations
  • Upper Limb Amputations
  • Upper Limb Amputees
  • Upper Limb Prostheses

Readers

  • Computer Science/Computer Engineering/Data Science/Digital Signal Processing.
  • Rehabilitation and Prosthetic Care for Military Service Members and Veterans with Limb Loss or Disability.
  • Team-Based Human-Centered Cognitive Task Decision Making and Information Performance.