State of the Art in Wearable Wrist Exoskeletons Part I: Background Needs and Design Requirements

RF Pitzalis, D Park, DG Caldwell, G Berselli, J Ortiz - Machines, 2023 - mdpi.com
Despite an increase in the use of exoskeletons, particularly for medical and occupational
applications, few studies have focused on the wrist, even though it is the fourth most …

Neuro-gerontechnologies: applications and opportunities

G Barresi, J Zenzeri, J Tessadori, M Laffranchi… - Internet of Things for …, 2022 - Springer
A positive aging requires placing human changes due to healthy or pathological
senescence at the center of gerontechnology design. A set of key solutions for …

Three-dimensional assessment of upper limb Proprioception via a wearable exoskeleton

E Galofaro, E D'antonio, F Patané, M Casadio… - Applied Sciences, 2021 - mdpi.com
Proprioception—the sense of body segment's position and movement—plays a crucial role
in human motor control, integrating the sensory information necessary for the correct …

Robotic technologies and digital health metrics for assessing sensorimotor disability

CM Kanzler, M Bolliger, O Lambercy - Neurorehabilitation technology, 2022 - Springer
Neurological disorders such as stroke, multiple sclerosis, traumatic brain injury, cerebral
palsy, or spinal cord injury result in partial or complete sensorimotor impairments in the …

Identifying patterns of proprioception and target matching acuity in healthy humans

J Carducci, JD Brown - arXiv preprint arXiv:2411.12664, 2024 - arxiv.org
Traditional approaches to measurement in upper-limb therapy have gaps that electronic
sensing and recording can help fill. We highlight shortcomings in current kinematic …

Device Characterization for Human Hand and Wrist Motor Control

JD Carducci - 2023 - jscholarship.library.jhu.edu
Current therapy tools have limited clinical outcomes for upper-limb recovery due to
incomplete models of hand and wrist function that in turn inform device and assessment …

[PDF][PDF] Position sense and force control: assessment in unimanual and bimanual tasks

E Galofaro - 2021 - tesidottorato.depositolegale.it
Human-environment interactions are common natural occurrences affecting every action.
The environment includes objects whose manipulation requires careful somatosensory …