The human hand is the most frequently used body part in activities of daily living. With its
complex anatomical structure and the small size compared to the body, assessing the …

Background Hand grasp patterns require complex coordination. The reduction of the
kinematic dimensionality is a key process to study the patterns underlying hand usage and …

Modelling hand kinematics is a challenging problem, crucial for several domains including
robotics, 3D modelling, rehabilitation medicine and neuroscience. Currently available …

Improving the understanding of hand kinematics during the performance of activities of daily
living may help improve the control of hand prostheses and hand function assessment. This …

The motor system is hypothesised to use kinematic synergies to simplify hand control.
Recent studies suggest that there is a large set of synergies, sparse in degrees of freedom …

A sensory evaluation test on spherical and columnar objects with different cross-sectional
shapes was conducted to investigate their gripping comfort. The relationships of the gripping …

Humans have evolved a distinctive relationship with “objects”(tools and technology), which
has strongly influenced their anatomical and cognitive capacities. The human hand is …

Sensorized gloves allow the measurement of all hand kinematics that are essential for daily
functionality. However, they are scarcely used by clinicians, mainly because of the difficulty …

Hand prehension requires highly coordinated control of contact forces. The high-
dimensional sensorimotor system of the human hand operates at ease, but poses several …

Background Hand kinematics during hand function tests based on the performance of
activities of daily living (ADLs) can provide objective data to determine patients' functional …