Title :
Head pointer based on ultrasonic position measurement
Author :
Nunoshita, M. ; Ebisawa, Y.
Author_Institution :
Fac. of Eng., Shizuoka Univ., Hamamatsu, Japan
Abstract :
For people that have limb paralysis but have head movement ability, the head pointing device based on the ultrasonic position measurement was developed. In the head movement measurement system, the positions in space of the three transmitters were measured. At the intersection of the normal line of the plane consisting of the three transmitters and the screen plane, the cursor was presented The experimental results showed that the pointing speed is not so slow compared to the ordinary computer mouse. The head pointing device is useful because the cursor can be easily moved by head rotation unity.
Keywords :
biomechanics; biomedical ultrasonics; handicapped aids; position measurement; user interfaces; computer operation; disabled people; handicaps; head movement ability; head pointer; head rotation unity; human-machine interface; limb paralysis; ordinary computer mouse; spinal cord injuries; ultrasonic position measurement; Delay; Gravity; Man machine systems; Motion measurement; Position measurement; Rotation measurement; Signal resolution; Transmitters; Ultrasonic imaging; Ultrasonic variables measurement;
Conference_Titel :
Engineering in Medicine and Biology, 2002. 24th Annual Conference and the Annual Fall Meeting of the Biomedical Engineering Society EMBS/BMES Conference, 2002. Proceedings of the Second Joint
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-7612-9
DOI :
10.1109/IEMBS.2002.1106625