10 results match your criteria: "Institute of Creative Media Technologies[Affiliation]"

Both sonification and visualization convey information about data by effectively using our human perceptual system, but their ways to transform the data differ. Over the past 30 years, the sonification community has demanded a holistic perspective on data representation, including audio-visual analysis, several times. A design theory of audio-visual analysis would be a relevant step in this direction.

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The correct estimation of gait events is essential for the interpretation and calculation of 3D gait analysis (3DGA) data. Depending on the severity of the underlying pathology and the availability of force plates, gait events can be set either manually by trained clinicians or detected by automated event detection algorithms. The downside of manually estimated events is the tedious and time-intensive work which leads to subjective assessments.

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Placing a stronger focus on subject-specific responses to footwear may lead to a better functional understanding of footwear's effect on running and its influence on comfort perception, performance, and pathogenesis of injuries. We investigated subject-specific responses to different footwear conditions within ground reaction force (GRF) data during running using a machine learning-based approach. We conducted our investigation in three steps, guided by the following hypotheses: (I) For each subject x footwear combination, unique GRF patterns can be identified.

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Modeling biological individuality using machine learning: A study on human gait.

Comput Struct Biotechnol J

June 2023

Institute of Creative Media Technologies, Department of Media & Digital Technologies, St. Pölten University of Applied Sciences, St. Pölten, Austria.

Human gait is a complex and unique biological process that can offer valuable insights into an individual's health and well-being. In this work, we leverage a machine learning-based approach to model individual gait signatures and identify factors contributing to inter-individual variability in gait patterns. We provide a comprehensive analysis of gait individuality by (1) demonstrating the uniqueness of gait signatures in a large-scale dataset and (2) highlighting the gait characteristics that are most distinctive to each individual.

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EEG Hyperscanning and Qualitative Analysis of Moments of Interest in Music Therapy for Stroke Rehabilitation-A Feasibility Study.

Brain Sci

April 2022

Josef Ressel Centre for Horizons of Personalised Music Therapy, Department of Health Sciences, Institute for Therapeutic Sciences, IMC University of Applied Sciences Krems, 3500 Krems, Austria.

Interdisciplinary research into the underlying neural processes of music therapy (MT) and subjective experiences of patients and therapists are largely lacking. The aim of the current study was to assess the feasibility of newly developed procedures (including electroencephalography/electrocardiography hyperscanning, synchronous audio-video monitoring, and qualitative interviews) to study the personal experiences and neuronal dynamics of moments of interest during MT with stroke survivors. The feasibility of our mobile setup and procedures as well as their clinical implementation in a rehabilitation centre and an acute hospital ward were tested with four phase C patients.

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Education is an important component of every healthcare system. Patients need to be educated about their planned procedures; healthcare professionals need to be trained in their respective profession. Both patient education and the training of healthcare professionals are often completed in person, which requires resources and is bound to certain times and places.

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Article Synopsis
  • - Diabetes is a major global health issue, requiring ongoing treatment and management, which highlights the need for effective self-management education to help patients adhere to therapy.
  • - Research suggests that peer support can improve diabetes management outcomes more effectively and at a lower cost than standard methods, with peer-supported instant messaging providing an easy and accessible platform for support.
  • - A study will be conducted with 205 type 2 diabetes patients, comparing standard therapy to standard therapy plus peer-supported instant messaging over 7 months, assessing various health parameters to evaluate the intervention's effectiveness.
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The Gutenberg Gait Database comprises data of 350 healthy individuals recorded in our laboratory over the past seven years. The database contains ground reaction force (GRF) and center of pressure (COP) data of two consecutive steps measured - by two force plates embedded in the ground - during level overground walking at self-selected walking speed. The database includes participants of varying ages, from 11 to 64 years.

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The quantification of ground reaction forces (GRF) is a standard tool for clinicians to quantify and analyze human locomotion. Such recordings produce a vast amount of complex data and variables which are difficult to comprehend. This makes data interpretation challenging.

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Leveraging workflow control patterns in the domain of clinical practice guidelines.

BMC Med Inform Decis Mak

February 2016

Department of Computer Engineering and Science, Universitat Jaume I, Castellón, Spain.

Background: Clinical practice guidelines (CPGs) include recommendations describing appropriate care for the management of patients with a specific clinical condition. A number of representation languages have been developed to support executable CPGs, with associated authoring/editing tools. Even with tool assistance, authoring of CPG models is a labor-intensive task.

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