TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2015//
TI  - A tactile handle for cane use monitoring
JO  - Conference proceedings - IEEE engineering in medicine and biology society
A1  - Trujillo-Leon, A.
A1  - Ady, R.
A1  - Vidal-Verdu, F.
A1  - Bachta, W.
SP  - 3586
EP  - 3589
VL  - 2015
IS  - 
N2  - Assistive ambulatory devices are used for gait rehabilitation and assistance. In both cases, their benefit is greater when they are used properly. As for canes, embedded sensors can be used for monitoring purposes. In this paper, a custom tactile handle equipping a cane is described. It is composed of cost-effective commercially available pressure sensors. Experimental results involving 10 subjects show that the developed handle can provide information on the cane orientation as well as on the load applied to it during assisted gait. These data can help monitoring the cane usage and misuses detection.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 1557-170X
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/EMBC.2015.7319168
ID  - ref1
ER  -