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ArticleJournal of neuroengineering and rehabilitation2019

User activity recognition system to improve the performance of environmental control interfaces: a pilot study with patients.

Arturo Bertomeu-Motos, Santiago Ezquerro, Juan A Barios, Luis D Lledó, Sergio Domingo, Marius Nann, Suzanne Martin, Surjo R Soekadar, Nicolas Garcia-Aracil

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Article in Journal of neuroengineering and rehabilitation, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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9 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Arturo Bertomeu-MotosMiguel Hernández University of Elche, Av. Universidad w/n, Ed. Innova, Elche, 03202, Spain. abertomeu@umh.es.ORCID 0000-0003-1921-0422
Santiago EzquerroMiguel Hernández University of Elche, Av. Universidad w/n, Ed. Innova, Elche, 03202, Spain.
Juan A BariosMiguel Hernández University of Elche, Av. Universidad w/n, Ed. Innova, Elche, 03202, Spain.
Luis D LledóMiguel Hernández University of Elche, Av. Universidad w/n, Ed. Innova, Elche, 03202, Spain.
Sergio DomingoBJ Adaptaciones, St Mare de Déu del Coll, 70, Barcelona, 08023, Spain.
Marius NannUniversity Hospital of Tuebingen, Applied Neurotechnology Lab, Calwerstr. 14, Tübingen, D-72076, Germany.
Suzanne MartinThe Cedar Foundation, 1 Upper Lisburn Road, Belfast, BT10 0GW, UK.
Surjo R SoekadarClinical Neurotechnology Laboratory, Neuroscience Research Center (NWFZ), Charité University Medicine Berlin, Charitéplatz 1, Berlin, 10117, Germany.
Nicolas Garcia-AracilMiguel Hernández University of Elche, Av. Universidad w/n, Ed. Innova, Elche, 03202, Spain.
Universitat de Miguel Hernández d'Elx · ESCharité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin · DEUniversity of Tübingen · DE

Funding

H2020 LEIT Information and Communication Technologies 645322Ministerio de Economía, Industria y Competitividad, Gobierno de España DPI2015-70415-C2-2-R
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundAssistive technologies aim to increase quality of life, reduce dependence on care giver and on the long term care system. Several studies have demonstrated the effectiveness in the use of assistive technology for environment control and communication systems. The progress of brain-computer interfaces (BCI) research together with exoskeleton enable a person with motor impairment to interact with new elements in the environment. This paper aims to evaluate the environment control interface (ECI) developed under the AIDE project conditions, a multimodal interface able to analyze and extract relevant information from the environments as well as from the identification of residual abilities, behaviors, and intentions of the user.

methodsThis study evaluated the ECI in a simulated scenario using a two screen layout: one with the ECI and the other with a simulated home environment, developed for this purpose. The sensorimotor rhythms and the horizontal oculoversion, acquired through BCI2000, a multipurpose standard BCI platform, were used to online control the ECI after the user training and system calibration. Eight subjects with different neurological diseases and spinal cord injury participated in this study. The subjects performed simulated activities of daily living (ADLs), i.e. actions in the simulated environment as drink, switch on a lamp or raise the bed head, during ten minutes in two different modes, AIDE mode, using a prediction model, to recognize the user intention facilitating the scan, and Manual mode, without a prediction model.

resultsThe results show that the mean task time spent in the AIDE mode was less than in the Manual, i.e the users were able to perform more tasks in the AIDE mode during the same time. The results showed a statistically significant differences with p<0.001. Regarding the steps, i.e the number of abstraction levels crossed in the ECI to perform an ADL, the users performed one step in the 90% of the tasks using the AIDE mode and three steps, at least, were necessary in the Manual mode. The user's intention prediction was performed through conditional random fields (CRF), with a global accuracy about 87%.

conclusionsThe environment analysis and the identification of the user's behaviors can be used to predict the user intention opening a new paradigm in the design of the ECIs. Although the developed ECI was tested only in a simulated home environment, it can be easily adapted to a real environment increasing the user independence at home.

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Brain-Computer InterfacesSoftwareSpinal Cord InjuriesActivities of Daily LivingAdultElectroencephalographyElectrooculographyExoskeleton DeviceFemaleHumansMalePilot ProjectsQuality of LifeUser-Computer InterfaceBrain-computer interfaceBrain injuryEnvironment control interfaceMultimodal systemSpinal-cord injuryUser intention prediction

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PMID30646915
PMCPMC6334466
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