2011 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Development of the "Tongue Mouse System" operated by mouthpiece type remote controller for seriously disability people
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21500524
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
Rehabilitation science/Welfare engineering
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| Research Institution | Niigata Institute of Technology |
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Principal Investigator |
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| Project Period (FY) |
2009 – 2011
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| Keywords | 医療・福祉 / 福祉工学 / 支援工学 / RFID / 重度障害者 |
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| Research Abstract |
Seriously disabled people who have cervical cord injury or ALS, they have difficulties such as they can't move their bodies and vocalize. For those people, we have tried to develop an Augmentative and Alternative Communication device named as "Tongue Mouse System"."Tongue Mouse System" consists of a mouthpiece type remote controller and a PC. This remote controller would be inserted into a user's mouth and be operated by tongue. The remote controller has four or five passive RFID transponders but no battery. Users operate the mouthpiece type remote controller by their tongue to handle a PC's mouse cursor to input some characters and sentences on the PC's screen. To investigate the effectiveness of this system, 10 healthy male candidates input a prescribed sentence by "Tongue Mouse System" mode and by normal PC mouse. Each candidates input 10 times, and the average time and standard deviation were calculated. The input time of by "Tongue Mouse System" was around 1.5 times as long as by normal PC mouse. This result suggest that the "Tongue Mouse System" would be effective and it's has the possibility to apply to feasible using.
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