Title :
Human factors engineering challenges in therapeutic tele-play systems for children with disabilities
Author :
Lathan, Corinna E.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Biomed. Eng., Catholic Univ. of America, Washington, DC, USA
Abstract :
Therapeutic teleplay focuses on the use of personal augmentative devices (PADs), exploratory agents to enable tele-interaction, evaluation, and development of abilities in children with severe disabilities. The child controls the remote agent to accomplish a variety of cognitive and motor developmental tasks. Human factor challenges include optimizing the human-technology interface by using physiological signals to control the device, mapping the actions of the remote agent to the inputs of the user, and providing appropriate multisensory feedback to the user
Keywords :
biocontrol; cognitive systems; feedback; handicapped aids; human factors; neurophysiology; paediatrics; patient treatment; telemedicine; user interfaces; virtual reality; PAD; ability development; ability evaluation; children with disabilities; cognitive task; exploratory agents; human factors engineering challenges; human-technology interface; motor developmental task; multisensory feedback; personal augmentative devices; physiological signals; remote agent; severe disabilities; tele-interaction; therapeutic tele-play systems; therapeutic teleplay; Biomedical engineering; Collaboration; Feedback; Human factors; Medical treatment; Navigation; Pediatrics; Signal mapping; Vehicles; Virtual reality;
Conference_Titel :
[Engineering in Medicine and Biology, 1999. 21st Annual Conference and the 1999 Annual Fall Meetring of the Biomedical Engineering Society] BMES/EMBS Conference, 1999. Proceedings of the First Joint
Conference_Location :
Atlanta, GA
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-5674-8
DOI :
10.1109/IEMBS.1999.803842
