Evaluation of a Wearable and Wireless Human-Computer Interface Combining Head Motion and sEMG for People with Upper-Body Disabilities
| Autor: | Benoit Gosselin, Clément Gosselin, Alexandre Campeau-Lecours, Cheikh Latyr Fall |
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| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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030506 rehabilitation
business.industry Computer science 05 social sciences Wearable computer Usability Input device 050105 experimental psychology 03 medical and health sciences Inertial measurement unit Control system Task analysis Wireless 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Computer vision Artificial intelligence 0305 other medical science business Wireless sensor network |
| Zdroj: | NEWCAS |
| DOI: | 10.1109/newcas.2018.8585522 |
| Popis: | In this paper, a wearable, wireless and multimodal 2-dimensional computer mouse control system is introduced for people with upper-body disabilities. The proposed human-computer interface system combines body-motion, measured using inertial measurement unit (IMU), to provide a cursor velocity and displacement control, and surface electromyography (sEMG) for target selection (left-click), using custom sensors made of electronic components of the shelf. Its functionality is demonstrated by using head motion and muscular activity detection from trapeze muscles to evaluate usability by people living with severe disabilities, congenital absence or amputation of upper-members, temporary limb traumatism, etc., preventing their utilization of tools such as mouse or keyboard. Performance using different control topologies, following the ISO/TS 9241-411:2012 standard encompassing the evaluation of physical pointing tasks, and compared to a computer mouse. On average, over the 3 participants, results show that the proposed interface can provide an index of performance of 0.18 bits/s versus 2.2 bits/s with a mouse pointer. Head motion combined with sEMG showed a 4% accuracy drop computer to the mouse while being more suitable for the severely disabled. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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