| Budget Amount *help |
¥5,460,000 (Direct Cost: ¥4,200,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,260,000)
Fiscal Year 2014: ¥1,430,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,100,000、Indirect Cost: ¥330,000)
Fiscal Year 2013: ¥1,170,000 (Direct Cost: ¥900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥270,000)
Fiscal Year 2012: ¥2,860,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,200,000、Indirect Cost: ¥660,000)
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
To control assistive devices to be used by seriously disabled people, we have focused on tongue motion. We have tried to develop an Integrated Tongue Operation Assist System (“I-to-AS”) to control a PWC and a PC as an AAC device. In this study we developed a stick type mouthpiece remote controller as a new type of the remote controller. This controller has a 4-directional tact switch and a push switch. To investigate the operativeness of the "I-to-AS" with the stick type mouthpiece remote controller, eight able-bodied candidates drove a PWC on the same course. Each candidate operated the PWC using the stick type mouthpiece remote controller by “Tongue” and by “Fingers”. The average driving times were compared and the difference between using the tongue and fingers was about 25% which was considered acceptable. These suggest that the “I-to-AS” with the stick type mouthpiece remote controller would be effective and it has the potential to be used by seriously disabled people.
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