Robotic devices for paediatric rehabilitation: a review of design features

A Gonzalez, L Garcia, J Kilby, P McNair - BioMedical Engineering OnLine, 2021 - Springer
Children with physical disabilities often have limited performance in daily activities,
hindering their physical development, social development and mental health. Therefore …

Soft wearable rehabilitation robots with artificial muscles based on smart materials: a review

A Gonzalez-Vazquez, L Garcia, J Kilby… - Advanced Intelligent …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Wearables robots have gained attention for the rehabilitation of people with physical
disabilities. However, the current technology relies on heavy and bulky actuation …

Automatic posture and movement tracking of infants with wearable movement sensors

M Airaksinen, O Räsänen, E Ilén, T Häyrinen, A Kivi… - Scientific reports, 2020 - nature.com
Infants' spontaneous and voluntary movements mirror developmental integrity of brain
networks since they require coordinated activation of multiple sites in the central nervous …

Long-form recording of infant body position in the home using wearable inertial sensors

JM Franchak, M Tang, H Rousey, C Luo - Behavior research methods, 2024 - Springer
Long-form audio recordings have had a transformational effect on the study of infant
language acquisition by using mobile, unobtrusive devices to gather full-day, real-time data …

It is about inclusion! Mining online reviews to understand the needs of adaptive clothing customers

M Li, L Zhao, S Srinivas - International Journal of Consumer …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The adaptive clothing market, which focuses on the inclusive design of clothing and
footwear for people with varying degrees of disability, has grown substantially in recent …

Young children's interactions with objects: Play as practice and practice as play

JJ Lockman, CS Tamis-LeMonda - Annual Review of …, 2021 - annualreviews.org
Objects permeate human culture and saturate the imagination. This duality offers both
opportunity and challenge. Here we ask how young human children learn to exploit the …

A contactless method for measuring full-day, naturalistic motor behavior using wearable inertial sensors

JM Franchak, V Scott, C Luo - Frontiers in Psychology, 2021 - frontiersin.org
How can researchers best measure infants' motor experiences in the home? Body position—
whether infants are held, supine, prone, sitting, or upright—is an important developmental …

Machine learning to quantify physical activity in children with cerebral palsy: Comparison of group, group-personalized, and fully-personalized activity classification …

MN Ahmadi, ME O'neil, E Baque, RN Boyd, SG Trost - Sensors, 2020 - mdpi.com
Pattern recognition methodologies, such as those utilizing machine learning (ML)
approaches, have the potential to improve the accuracy and versatility of accelerometer …

A topic analysis method based on a three-dimensional strategic diagram

J Feng, X Mu, W Wang, Y Xu - Journal of Information Science, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
With the tremendous growth of scientific literature in recent years, methods of detecting and
analysing research topics have become more and more important. This study proposes a …

Sitting capacity and performance in infants with typical development and infants with motor delay

KS Kretch, NA Koziol, EC Marcinowski… - … Therapy in Pediatrics, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Aims Infants with neuromotor disorders demonstrate delays in sitting skills (decreased
capacity) and are less likely to maintain independent sitting during play than their peers with …