Evaluation of cognitive load and its relationship with physical ability on walking support using pneumatic artificial muscle (pam) driver

Tipporn Laohakangvalvit, Haruki Toda, Tsubasa Maruyama, Yuichi Kurita, Mitsunori Tada

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Abstract

In rehabilitation, emotional aspect is one key factor to motivate patients to reach their full recovery. Our previous study developed wireless PAM driver as walking-support device and experimentally evaluated its effectiveness in physical ability, but has not performed evaluation on emotional aspect yet. Therefore, this study experimentally evaluates cognitive load and its relationship with physical ability (i.e. performance and joint motion) on walking support using our PAM driver with variations of walking conditions. We obtained tendency of double-blink rate as rapid serial blinks to evaluate cognitive load during walking. In addition, we obtained correlations between gait velocity and blink rates, indicating that cognitive load was affected by walking speed (performance) more than joint motion (swing support).

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationAdvances in Usability, User Experience, Wearable and Assistive Technology - Proceedings of the AHFE 2020 Virtual Conferences on Usability and User Experience, Human Factors and Assistive Technology, Human Factors and Wearable Technologies, and Virtual Environments and Game Design
EditorsTareq Ahram, Christianne Falcão
PublisherSpringer
Pages860-867
Number of pages8
ISBN (Print)9783030518271
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2020
Externally publishedYes
EventAHFE Virtual Conference on Usability and User Experience, the Virtual Conference on Human Factors and Assistive Technology, the Virtual Conference on Human Factors and Wearable Technologies, and the Virtual Conference on Virtual Environments and Game Design, 2020 - San Diego, United States
Duration: 2020 Jul 162020 Jul 20

Publication series

NameAdvances in Intelligent Systems and Computing
Volume1217 AISC
ISSN (Print)2194-5357
ISSN (Electronic)2194-5365

Conference

ConferenceAHFE Virtual Conference on Usability and User Experience, the Virtual Conference on Human Factors and Assistive Technology, the Virtual Conference on Human Factors and Wearable Technologies, and the Virtual Conference on Virtual Environments and Game Design, 2020
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CitySan Diego
Period20/7/1620/7/20

Keywords

  • Cognitive load
  • Electrooculography (EOG)
  • Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU)
  • Pneumatic artificial muscle
  • Rehabilitation
  • Walking support

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Control and Systems Engineering
  • Computer Science(all)

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