Design and Development of a Sensorized Wireless Toy for Measuring Infants' Manual Actions

Serio, S.M.; Cecchi, Francesca; Assaf, Tareq; Laschi, Cecilia; Dario, P.

doi:10.1109/tnsre.2013.2255066

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“…[ 35 ]. In the study of Serio et al , infants showed a good grade of acceptance to such kind of sensorized toys, as confirmed by the results of preliminary tests that involved nine healthy infants; in particular: (i) the dimensions matched infants’ anthropometrics; (ii) the device was robust and safe; (iii) the acquired signals were in the expected range and (iv) the wireless communication was stable [ 36 ]. Further improvements of these technologies have been performed, within the EU CareToy Project [ 37 ], with a new modular MEMS-based system for intensive, patient specific, home-based and family centred early intervention, managed remotely by rehabilitation staff.…”

Section: Mems-based Sensor Technologies For Human Centred Applicatmentioning

confidence: 94%

MEMS Sensor Technologies for Human Centred Applications in Healthcare, Physical Activities, Safety and Environmental Sensing: A Review on Research Activities in Italy

Ciuti

Ricotti

Menciassi

et al. 2015

Sensors

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Over the past few decades the increased level of public awareness concerning healthcare, physical activities, safety and environmental sensing has created an emerging need for smart sensor technologies and monitoring devices able to sense, classify, and provide feedbacks to users’ health status and physical activities, as well as to evaluate environmental and safety conditions in a pervasive, accurate and reliable fashion. Monitoring and precisely quantifying users’ physical activity with inertial measurement unit-based devices, for instance, has also proven to be important in health management of patients affected by chronic diseases, e.g., Parkinson’s disease, many of which are becoming highly prevalent in Italy and in the Western world. This review paper will focus on MEMS sensor technologies developed in Italy in the last three years describing research achievements for healthcare and physical activity, safety and environmental sensing, in addition to smart systems integration. Innovative and smart integrated solutions for sensing devices, pursued and implemented in Italian research centres, will be highlighted, together with specific applications of such technologies. Finally, the paper will depict the future perspective of sensor technologies and corresponding exploitation opportunities, again with a specific focus on Italy.

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Section: Mems-based Sensor Technologies For Human Centred Applicatmentioning

confidence: 94%

MEMS Sensor Technologies for Human Centred Applications in Healthcare, Physical Activities, Safety and Environmental Sensing: A Review on Research Activities in Italy

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Ricotti

Menciassi

et al. 2015

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“…Cecchi et al [29] incorporated piezoresistive pressure sensors and flexible force sensing resistor (FSR) sensors in sensorised toys to measure infants' reaching and grasping. Serio et al [30] used pressure sensors connected to air chambers to measure the amplitude of the force applied for quantitative monitoring and measuring infants' motor development.…”

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The Design and Development of Instrumented Toys for the Assessment of Infant Cognitive Flexibility

Ramanathan

Ariffin

Goh

et al. 2023

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The first years of an infant’s life represent a sensitive period for neurodevelopment where one can see the emergence of nascent forms of executive function (EF), which are required to support complex cognition. Few tests exist for measuring EF during infancy, and the available tests require painstaking manual coding of infant behaviour. In modern clinical and research practice, human coders collect data on EF performance by manually labelling video recordings of infant behaviour during toy or social interaction. Besides being extremely time-consuming, video annotation is known to be rater-dependent and subjective. To address these issues, starting from existing cognitive flexibility research protocols, we developed a set of instrumented toys to serve as a new type of task instrumentation and data collection tool suitable for infant use. A commercially available device comprising a barometer and an inertial measurement unit (IMU) embedded in a 3D-printed lattice structure was used to detect when and how the infant interacts with the toy. The data collected using the instrumented toys provided a rich dataset that described the sequence of toy interaction and individual toy interaction patterns, from which EF-relevant aspects of infant cognition can be inferred. Such a tool could provide an objective, reliable, and scalable method of collecting early developmental data in socially interactive contexts.

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“…Cecchi et al [29] incorporated piezoresistive pressure sensors and flexible Force Sensing Resistors (FSR) sensors in sensorised toys to measure infants' reaching and grasping. Serio et al [30] use pressure sensors connected to air chambers to measure the amplitude of the force applied for quantitative monitoring and measuring infants' motor development.…”

Section: Detecting Toy Squeezingmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The cubes had a contact area of 72.00 cm 2 , and the balls had a contact area of 64.84 cm 2 between the robot end effector and the force sensor. It was noted that studies on infant grip force within the first 12 months had measured the range to be between 5 to 35 kPa [29,30,39,40,49]. As such, to validate performance in a minimal force application condition, the robot was programmed in position control mode to move 10 mm vertically from z 0 to z 1 with a velocity of 65 mm/s to apply a force F robot = 20 N on the toys.…”

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Design and Development of Instrumented Toys for Social Interactive Assessment of Infant Cognitive Flexibility

Ramanathan¹,

Ariffin²,

Goh³

et al. 2022

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The first years of an infant’s life represent a sensitive period for neurodevelopment and see the emergence of nascent forms of executive function (EF), which are required to support complex cognition. Few tests exist for measuring EF during infancy, and the available tests require painstaking manual coding of infant behaviour. In modern clinical and research practice, human coders collect data on EF performance by manually labelling video recordings of infant behaviour during toy or social interaction. Besides being extremely time-consuming, video annotation is known to be rater-dependent and subjective. To address these issues, starting from existing cognitive flexibility research protocols, we developed instrumented toys as a new task instrumentation and data collection tool suitable for infant use. A commercially available device comprising a Barometer and Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU) embedded in a 3D-printed lattice structure was used to detect when and how the infant interacts with the toy. The data collected using the instrumented toys provides a rich dataset describing the sequence of toy interaction and individual toy interaction patterns, from which EF-relevant aspects of infant cognition may be inferred. Such a tool potentially provides an objective, reliable, and scalable method of collecting early developmental data in socially interactive contexts.

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Design and Development of a Sensorized Wireless Toy for Measuring Infants' Manual Actions

Cited by 14 publications

References 21 publications

MEMS Sensor Technologies for Human Centred Applications in Healthcare, Physical Activities, Safety and Environmental Sensing: A Review on Research Activities in Italy

MEMS Sensor Technologies for Human Centred Applications in Healthcare, Physical Activities, Safety and Environmental Sensing: A Review on Research Activities in Italy

The Design and Development of Instrumented Toys for the Assessment of Infant Cognitive Flexibility

Design and Development of Instrumented Toys for Social Interactive Assessment of Infant Cognitive Flexibility

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