Upper limb assessment of people with multiple sclerosis with the use of a haptic nine hole peg-board test

2008 Proceedings of the 9th Biennial Conference on Engineering Systems Design and Analysis

Volumn 2, Issue , 2009, Pages 159-166

  Xydas, Evagoras G ^a   Louca, Loucas S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CYPRUS   (Cyprus)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MINIMUM JERK MODEL; MOTION ANALYSIS; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; PIECE-WISE; REACHING TASK; THREE DIMENSIONAL TRAJECTORIES; UPPER LIMBS; VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENTS;

METRIC SYSTEM; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS; THREE DIMENSIONAL; VIRTUAL REALITY;

HAPTIC INTERFACES;

EID: 70349139663     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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