CNN-Based Self-Attention Weight Extraction for Fall Event Prediction Using Balance Test Score.

Injury, hospitalization, and even death are common consequences of falling for elderly people. Therefore, early and robust identification of people at risk of recurrent falling is crucial from a preventive point of view. This study aims to evaluate the effectiveness of an interpretable semi-supervised approach in identifying individuals at risk of falls by using the data provided by ankle-mounted IMU sensors.

The social Simon effect in the tactile sensory modality: a negative finding.

This study seeks to investigate whether users activate cognitive representations of their partner's action when they are involved in tactile collaborative tasks. The social Simon effect is a spatial stimulus-response interference induced by the mere presence of a partner in a go/nogo task. It has been extensively studied in the visual and auditory sensory modalities, but never before in the tactile modality.

Stroke and Universal Design.

Universal Design (UD) is usually stated to be "for all ages and abilities". Given that stroke is a major source of disability, it is important that UD recommendations take stroke-specific problems into account. Within the framework of EU project STARR, we have investigated user requirements of stroke survivors.

Design and Study of a Smart Cup for Monitoring the Arm and Hand Activity of Stroke Patients.

This paper presents a new platform to monitor the arm and hand activity of stroke patients during rehabilitation exercises in the hospital and at home during their daily living activities. The platform provides relevant data to the therapist in order to assess the patients physical state and adapt the rehabilitation program if necessary. The platform consists of a self-contained smart cup that can be used to perform exercises that are similar to everyday tasks such as drinking.

A vibrotactile wristband to help older pedestrians make safer street-crossing decisions.

Introduction: Older pedestrians are overrepresented in fatal accidents. Studies consistently show gap-acceptance difficulties, especially in complex traffic situations such as two-way streets and when vehicles approached rapidly. In this context, the present research was aimed at assessing the effectiveness of a vibrotactile device and study older pedestrian's behavior when wearing the wristband designed to help them make safer street-crossing decisions.

Facing the challenge of teaching emotions to individuals with low- and high-functioning autism using a new Serious game: a pilot study.

Background: It is widely accepted that emotion processing difficulties are involved in Autism Spectrum Conditions (ASC). An increasing number of studies have focused on the development of training programs and have shown promising results. However, most of these programs are appropriate for individuals with high-functioning ASC (HFA) but exclude individuals with low-functioning ASC (LFA).

Automotive technicians' training as a community-of-practice: implications for the design of an augmented reality teaching aid.

The paper presents an ergonomic analysis carried out in the early phases of an R&D project. The purpose was to investigate the functioning of today's Automotive Service Technicians (ASTs) training in order to inform the design of an Augmented Reality (AR) teaching aid. The first part of the paper presents a literature review of some major problems encountered by ASTs today.