Title :
Performance of a passive device in improving tremor patients´ handwriting capability
Author :
Yusop, Z.M. ; Zain, M. Z Md ; Hussein, M. ; As´arry, A.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Appl. Mech., Univ. Teknol. Malaysia, Skudai, Malaysia
Abstract :
This paper provides the investigation of the performance One-Degree-of-Freedom system to be implemented in tremors patient writing device to reduce human hand tremor. The One-Degree-of-Freedom of two springs and a mass is proposed to absorb the hand vibration for patients that suffered tremors disease while writing. The performance of development device is based on drawing Archimedes spiral that done by a tremor patient.
Keywords :
biomechanics; biomedical equipment; diseases; handwriting recognition; medical signal detection; vibrations; Archimedes spiral drawing; hand vibration; human hand tremor; one-degree-of-freedom system; passive device; tremor disease; tremor patient handwriting capability; Acceleration; Accelerometers; Frequency domain analysis; Performance evaluation; Springs; Vibrations; Writing; Archimedes Spiral; One-Degree-of-Freedom; Passive Device; Tremor;
Conference_Titel :
Biomedical Engineering (ICoBE), 2012 International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Penang
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4577-1990-5
DOI :
10.1109/ICoBE.2012.6179046
