Introduction and preliminary evaluation of the Tongue Drive System: Wireless tongue-operated assistive technology for people with little or no upper-limb function

Journal of Rehabilitation Research and Development

Volumn 45, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 921-930

  Huo, Xueliang ^a   Wang, Jia ^b   Ghovanloo, Maysam ^a,b  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b North Carolina State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Assistive technologies; Computer access; Environment control; Information transfer rate; Magnetic field sensors; Permanent magnets; Rehabilitation; Telemetry; Tongue control; Wireless

Indexed keywords

ASSISTIVE TECHNOLOGIES; COMPUTER ACCESS; ENVIRONMENT CONTROL; INFORMATION TRANSFER RATE; MAGNETIC FIELD SENSORS; REHABILITATION; TELEMETRY; TONGUE CONTROL; WIRELESS;

ACCESS CONTROL; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS; MAGNETIC DEVICES; MAGNETIC FIELDS; MAGNETIC SENSORS; MAGNETOMETERS; PATIENT REHABILITATION; PERMANENT MAGNETS; TECHNOLOGY; TELEMETERING EQUIPMENT; WHEELCHAIRS;

COMPUTER CONTROL;

TISSUE ADHESIVE; TRACER;

ARM MOVEMENT; ARTICLE; ASSISTIVE TECHNOLOGY; CLOTHING; COMPUTER; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVALUATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMPLANTATION; LABORATORY TEST; MAGNETIC FIELD; MALE; ORTHODONTIC DEVICE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSOR; TONGUE DRIVE SYSTEM; WHEELCHAIR; ALGORITHM; ARM; COMPUTER INTERFACE; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SELF HELP; SIGNAL PROCESSING; TONGUE;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; ALGORITHMS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; HUMANS; MALE; SELF-HELP DEVICES; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TONGUE; UPPER EXTREMITY; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 63249099112     PISSN: 07487711     EISSN: 07487711     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1682/JRRD.2007.06.0096     Document Type: Article

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