Imaging of Computer Input Ability for Patient With Tetraplegia

In rehabilitation medicine, it is necessary for medical staff members to recommend the suitable computer input device for each patient with a spinal cord injury. This paper describes a measurement and evaluation system to determine the computer input ability of patients with tetraplegia. The authors...

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Published in:IEEE transactions on instrumentation and measurement 2006-12, Vol.55 (6), p.1953-1958
Main Authors: Tanimoto, Y., Rokumyo, Y., Nanba, K., Furusawa, K., Tokuhiro, A., Ukida, H., Yamamoto, H.
Format: Article
Language:English
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Associate members
Biomedical imaging
Computer input ability
computer input device
Graphical representations
Home computing
Input devices
Instrumentation
Keyboards
measurement software
Medical
Mice
patient with tetraplegia
Patients
Performance evaluation
Physics computing
Position measurement
Rehabilitation
Representations
Software measurement
Spinal cord
Spinal cord injury
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Summary:In rehabilitation medicine, it is necessary for medical staff members to recommend the suitable computer input device for each patient with a spinal cord injury. This paper describes a measurement and evaluation system to determine the computer input ability of patients with tetraplegia. The authors will define a measurement procedure, a set of objective parameters, and a graphical representation of the parameters. They measure the position locus of the mouse cursor when a patient operates a computer using a computer input device. Using the representation, the medical staff can evaluate the patient's computer input ability and understand the characteristics of the patient's computer operation
ISSN:0018-9456
1557-9662
DOI:10.1109/TIM.2006.884400