A novel wireless toy for measuring infants´ bimanual actions

Author

Serio, S.M. ; Assaf, T. ; Cecchi, F. ; Laschi, C. ; Dario, P.

Author_Institution

BioRobotics Inst. of Scuola Superiore Sant´´Anna, Pisa, Italy

fYear

2012

fDate

24-27 June 2012

Firstpage

1869

Lastpage

1873

Abstract

The study and measurement of manual actions and forces in infants is important in a variety of contexts because it can give insights on the typical and atypical motor development. Novel approaches for measuring infants´ manual actions are based on sensorized platform, such as instrumented wireless toys, to be exploited in natural settings. A new sensorized wireless toy with embedded pressure sensors and audiovisual feedback has been designed and developed. Laboratory results show that the toy dimensions are fulfilling with infants´ anthropometrics and confirm the hypothesis that such instrumented toys could be useful for monitoring and measuring infants´ motor development.

Keywords

audio-visual systems; computerised monitoring; feedback; human computer interaction; medical computing; motion measurement; pressure sensors; telemedicine; atypical motor development; audiovisual feedback; force measurement; infants bimanual action measurement; infants motor development monitoring; pressure sensors; sensorized platform; sensorized wireless toy; typical motor development; Grasping; Manuals; Materials; Pediatrics; Sensors; Wireless communication; Wireless sensor networks; Infants; force measurement; signal analysis; wireless communication;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Biomedical Robotics and Biomechatronics (BioRob), 2012 4th IEEE RAS & EMBS International Conference on

Conference_Location

Rome

ISSN

2155-1774

Print_ISBN

978-1-4577-1199-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/BioRob.2012.6290773

Filename

6290773