2010 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Development of Welfare-Support System of Drinking Motions for Upper Limb Disabled Peoples
Project/Area Number |
20560232
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Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
Section | 一般 |
Research Field |
Intelligent mechanics/Mechanical systems
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Research Institution | Gunma University |
Principal Investigator |
NAKAZAWA Nobuaki Gunma University, 大学院・工学研究科, 准教授 (80312908)
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Project Period (FY) |
2008 – 2010
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Keywords | 啜り飲み / 介助動作 / ヒューマンインタフェース / 計測 |
Research Abstract |
When a human drinks something of a cup, the correlation between the tilted angles of the head and the grasped cup was high, and this characteristic can lead to smooth motions by avoiding a collision between the nose and the cup edge. Due to the fact that drinking motion includes the head tilting actions, the existed operation method with a jaw is regarded as an improper. Here, the novel interface was developed for the disabled persons to operate a drink support system by their own physical ability. This system provided an available operation by using the open/close actions of the mouth and the face orientations, after a several practices.
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Research Products
(14 results)