2020 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Sensory substitution for assisting motion recognition and motor learning of persons with disability in swimming
| Project/Area Number |
19K19973
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Early-Career Scientists
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| Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
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| Review Section |
Basic Section 59020:Sports sciences-related
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| Research Institution | University of Tsukuba |
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Principal Investigator |
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| Project Period (FY) |
2019-04-01 – 2021-03-31
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| Keywords | 感覚代行 / 運動学習支援 / 協調運動 / ウェアラブルデバイス |
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
The purpose of this research is to develop a sensory substitution system that can compensate the weaken/lost sensation of people with disabilities for supporting the learning process of coordinated movements. Understanding other's body movement as a reference and representing it with own body is a crucial for developing body coordination. However, people with disabilities may struggle due to their affected sensory modalities. In this project, we focused on swimming and track-and-field activities as a target coordinated movements, and developed a flexible and light-weight wearable sensor suit for measuring the body coordination of the wearer, and investigated the effect of real-time feedback by the device on the learning process of the trainee through experiments.
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| Free Research Field |
人支援技術
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| Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements |
本研究により，スポーツなど全身を有機的に協調させることが重要となる運動を学習する際に，提案する外部機器を用いた定量的な運動計測とそれに基づく運動状態の評価，および学習者への日間情報提示により，学習者本人では直感的に理解が困難な状況においても自身の運動状態に関する理解や改善方法への手がかりとなる情報が提供されることによって，学習を促進することができる可能性を示すことができた．
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