House Remodeling Support System for Patients with Spinal Cord Injuries

Tanimoto, Yasuhiro; Nanba, K.; Tokuhiro, Akihiro; Ukida, Hiroyuki; Yamamoto, Hideki

doi:10.1109/idaacs.2007.4488478

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“…It is difficult for medical staff to estimate whether there is sufficient movement space for a wheelchair or other welfare equipment when planning a remodel based only on a drawing of a house. In our rehabilitation center, the house remodeling demonstrations are carried out using three-dimensional computer graphics in order to prove to be useful for medical staff when they plan house remodeling for SCI patients [3]. For the demonstration, we proposed the evaluation system that showed the calculated turn and movement space on the two-dimensional remodeled house image [4].…”

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Measurement of wheelchair turn radius for SCI patient's remodeling house

Tanimoto¹,

Nanba²,

Tokuhiro³

et al. 2009

2009 IEEE Intrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference

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In remodeling the house of an SCI (Spinal Cord injury) patient, it is necessary to accurately determine and carry out changes that are suitable with regard to the patient's ability. In our rehabilitation center, house remodeling is demonstrated for patients and family members through the use of threedimensional computer graphic images before the remodeling occurs. We have proposed an evaluation system that can show whether there is sufficient space in the remodeled house for a wheelchair to be moved or turned using a computer graphic image. The turn space is calculated using only a wheelchair size. Especially, the wheelchair turning radius determined by the physical limitation of each patient is different among SCI patients. In this study, the turning radius is calculated by measuring the moving speed of right and left wheelchair rear wheel using the rotary encoder in order to estimate the actual turn space of wheelchair for SCI patient's remodeling house.

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confidence: 99%

Measurement of wheelchair turn radius for SCI patient's remodeling house

Tanimoto¹,

Nanba²,

Tokuhiro³

et al. 2009

2009 IEEE Intrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference

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Estimation of Wheelchair Turn Area for SCI Patient's Remodeling House

Tanimoto¹,

Nanba²,

Tokuhiro³

et al. 2008

2008 IEEE International Conference on Computational Cybernetics

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In remodeling the house of an SCI (Spinal Cord injury) patient, it is necessary to accurately determine and carry out changes that are suitable with regard to the patient's ability. In our rehabilitation center, house remodeling is demonstrated for patients and family members through the use of three-dimensional computer graphic images before the remodeling occurs. We here propose an evaluation system that can show whether there is sufficient space in the remodeled house for a wheelchair to be moved or turned. That space is calculated using a computer graphic image of the house and the specific wheelchair belonging to the patient. Moreover the evaluation system can measure the movement and turn area of the wheelchair.

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