Development of a wearable activities and aspiration monitoring system for supporting rehabilitation in children and its medical evaluation

2016 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 26560298
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Rehabilitation science/Welfare engineering
• Research Institution: Shizuoka Institute of Science and Technology (2015-2016); Hirosaki University (2014)
• Principal Investigator: Motoi Kosuke 静岡理工科大学, 理工学部, 講師 (80422640)
• Research Collaborator: HIGASHI Yuji ; YUJI Tadahiko ; NISHIYAMA Kazuhiko ; IWAMURA Hideyo
• Project Period (FY): 2014-04-01 – 2017-03-31
• Keywords: 小児リハビリテーション / 無拘束・無意識計測システム / 姿勢 / 活動 / 歩行速度 / 呼吸障害 / 誤嚥

Outline of Final Research Achievements

In the field of rehabilitation for disabled children with brain paralysis or developmental disorder, therapists need a new network system capable of obtaining activities and health status of children quantitatively and continuously. Therefore, we have developed a wearable system for monitoring activities and a non-conscious monitoring system for respiration and body motion during sleeping installed at bed. In this study, the present system can successfully detect the motion characteristics of the children with and without a brace during rehabilitation program and the breathing disorder by the aspiration during sleeping. From the results, it is demonstrated that the systems can be useful means for evaluating the effectiveness of the rehabilitation and the health condition in the disabled children.

Free Research Field

生体情報計測・ネットワークシステム