This paper presents a haptic system that is conceived to support the design process of a class of products or services in order to make them more accessible to people affected by hand tremor diseases. The main aim is to foster the designer empathy allowing her/him to directly feel the effect of the impairment in first person. Specifically, a desktop haptic device is employed to induce a programmable hand-tremor, that is typically observed in people affected by some kind of neurological diseases, on healthy subjects (i.e. the designers). The developed tool is based on a wrist-attached haptic interface with a workspace that is comparable to that of the arm of the user. Such device is able to exert controlled forces on the user's wrist and induces a hand-tremor whose frequency and amplitude are correlated with those measured on impaired people. The control of the device is based on a custom trajectory-tracking algorithm that takes as input tremor signals that are acquired on patients using an optical motion tracking system. In this paper, we present the employed haptic system, the structure of the control system and the experimental validation of the controller done through the acquisition of data on six patients affected by Parkinson's disease.


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    Title :

    Desktop Haptic Interface for Simulation of Hand-Tremor



    Publication date :

    2016-01-01



    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English


    Classification :

    DDC:    629




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