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Identifying Comfort Areas in 3D Space for Persons with Upper Extremity Mobility Impairments Using Virtual Reality

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Shanmugam Muruga Palaniappan,

Bradley S. DuerstockAuthors Info & Claims

ASSETS '19: Proceedings of the 21st International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility

Pages 495 - 499

https://doi.org/10.1145/3308561.3353810

Published: 24 October 2019 Publication History

Abstract

We present a method to extract workspace comfort areas for ergonomic placement of assistive technologies for persons with upper extremity mobility impairments Currently, areas of comfort are determined using multiple physical prototypes over several iterations which is expensive and time consuming. Our method utilizes a virtual reality exergame to obtain user-specific end effector motion data which is then combined with kernel density estimation to identify areas of frequent motion. Levels of comfort were confirmed by calculating shoulder joint forces necessary to reach these frequented areas and validated through a user study. Identifying areas of comfort in the workspace allows for optimal positioning and training of input devices for numerous applications.

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1. Human-centered computing

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ASSETS '19: Proceedings of the 21st International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility

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DOI:10.1145/3308561

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