Designing a game to explore human artefact ecologies for assistive robotics

Kobbelgaard, Frederik Victor; Bødker, Susanne; Kanstrup, Anne Marie

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“…Most studies included performing ADLs [28][29] [30] to simulate a real scenario of the assistive applications. Drinking is one of the ADLs that was rated with high importance by interviewed people with tetraplegia, their family members, and the caregivers [31][32] [29]. Thus, we used a pouring water (PW) task for the evaluation, similar to [29] and [33].…”

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Continuous Tongue Robot Mapping for Paralyzed Individuals Improves the Functional Performance of Tongue-Based Robotic Assistance

Mohammadi

Knoche²,

Struijk³

2021

IEEE Trans. Biomed. Eng.

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Individuals with tetraplegia have a challenging life due to a lack of independence and autonomy. Assistive robots have the potential to assist with the activities of daily living and thus improve the quality of life. However, an efficient and reliable control interface for severely disabled individuals is still missing. An intraoral tongue-computer interface (ITCI) for people with tetraplegia has previously been introduced and tested for controlling a robotic manipulator in a study deploying discrete tongue robot mapping. To improve the efficiency of the interface, the current study proposed the use of virtual buttons based on the ITCI and evaluated them in combination with a joystick-like control implementation, enabling continuous control commands. Twelve able-bodied volunteers participated in a three-day experiment. They controlled an assistive robotic manipulator through the tongue to perform two tasks: Pouring water in a cup (PW) and picking up a roll of tape (PUT). Four different tongue-robot mapping methods were compared. The results showed that using continuous commands reduced the task completion time by 16% and the number of commands of the PUT test by 20% compared with discrete commands. The highest success rate for completing the tasks was 77.8% for the PUT test and 100% for the PW test, both achieved by the control methods with continuous commands. Thus, the study demonstrated that incorporating continuous commands can improve the performance of the ITCI system for controlling robotic manipulators.

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Continuous Tongue Robot Mapping for Paralyzed Individuals Improves the Functional Performance of Tongue-Based Robotic Assistance

Mohammadi

Knoche²,

Struijk³

2021

IEEE Trans. Biomed. Eng.

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“…We also need to be aware that people with disabilities are likely to use a wide range of technologies in their daily lives; some mainstream, some more spe-cialist, some spontaneous, some imperative. Part of what we might need to research and understand is how people with disabilities cope with an ecology of interconnected technologies (Kobbelgaard et al, 2020). For example, Buchholz et al (2020) report that some people with 'communicative and cognitive disabilities' find it difficult to switch between their specialist Alternative or Augmentative Communication software and the more mainstream software that they also use, because this requires skills that not all users or support persons have.…”

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Constructions of disability and technology and the shaping of future research

Seale

2024

A Research Agenda for Disability and Technology

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“…Buur and Gudiksen (2012) show how tangible tools encourage business practitioners to hypothesize and think in alternative (business) scenarios. Kobbelgaard, Bødker and Kanstrup (2020) identify design games as investigating challenges and possibilities, addressing early design specifications, and mapping potential design spaces. They see design games as ideal instruments for analyzing existing and future actions, scenarios, or practices, with notable literature insights in this field.…”

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An Actor-Network Theory Instrument for Design Practitioners

Agca,

Buur

2023

The International Journal of Designed Objects

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In this paper, we explore a novel idea of theory instruments: tangible artifacts that encourage participatory design practitioners in the industry to reflect on interactions with technological devices in the light of a particular theory. Our Actor-Network Rings instrument is based on Actor-Network Theory as this is one way to challenge taken-for-granted assumptions about what effects digitalization have on product users and their lives. The instrument consists of wooden rings, wooden balls, clothespins, and magnets. By adding wooden clothespins as actors and plastic ones as actants on wooden network rings, upholding a wooden ball becomes visible and even tangible as a program of action. Shifting or removing clothespins visualizes concepts of imaginary substitution and delegation. We analyze two cases of how designers and design researchers in companies use the instrument to investigate dilemmas of people and technology. With transcripts from video documentation and hand-drawn visualizations, we show that the instrument elicits broader insights into the dilemmas and even opens ideas for future scenarios. We argue that there is a potential for developing such theory instruments that, in a playful manner, offer fundamental theory perspectives to inform understandings of digitalization.

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Designing a game to explore human artefact ecologies for assistive robotics

Cited by 8 publications

References 32 publications

Continuous Tongue Robot Mapping for Paralyzed Individuals Improves the Functional Performance of Tongue-Based Robotic Assistance

Continuous Tongue Robot Mapping for Paralyzed Individuals Improves the Functional Performance of Tongue-Based Robotic Assistance

Constructions of disability and technology and the shaping of future research

An Actor-Network Theory Instrument for Design Practitioners

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