Wearable and non-invasive assistive technologies

Ghovanloo, Maysam

doi:10.1016/b978-0-12-819246-7.00022-x

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“…severe paralysis) to transmit their messages/intentions to other devices (e.g. computers) within their surrounding environment (Ghovanloo and Huo, 2014). These technologies further upscale the offerings and competitiveness of health tourism destinations to lure health tourists.…”

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The future of health tourism in the industrial revolution 4.0 era

Wong

Hazley

2020

JTF

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Purpose The technological advances in the Industrial Revolution (IR) 4.0 era escalate the advancement of the healthcare industry, including the health tourism phenomenon. Based on the current trend in connected health care (e.g. mobile healthcare technology; digital health, etc.), this paper aims to propose that the distance between healthcare providers around the globe and its potential patients can be vastly reduced to almost on a real time basis. Design/methodology/approach A secondary literature review is conducted to identify the key development of IR 4.0 technologies in the healthcare industry and its possible trend leading the health tourism sector. Findings The adoption of IR 4.0 technologies is expected to make seeking treatments overseas more affordable, accessible and health records readily available on a real-time and secured basis. However, it is worth to note that the growth of health tourism raises the eyebrows of society from the security, social and economic perspectives. Originality/value This paper contributes to our understanding that the emergence of IR 4.0 technologies changes the landscape of the health care and health tourism industry. Continuous technology advancement is expected to further shape the future trend and escalate the commercialization aspect of the health tourism industry.

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The future of health tourism in the industrial revolution 4.0 era

Wong

Hazley

2020

JTF

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“…Many researchers have realized the significance of developing effective IMDs since these devices can directly impact the safety and the lives of the users. The inductive coupling link is regarded as the most effective technique that helps in transmitting power to the battery-less, implanted devices [12]. In this study, the researchers have used a series-to-parallel inductive coupling topology, where they tuned 3 primary coils (reader) in a series resonance for decreasing the impedance load and operating the transmitter coils.…”

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Analysis of Four Coils by Inductive Powering Links for Powering Bio-implantable Sensor

Alghrairi¹,

Sulaiman²,

Hasan³

et al. 2022

TEM Journal

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The inductive coupling link technique is popularly used for transmitting power in many biomedical applications, where it helps in transferring power to numerous implanted biomedical devices like a wireless pressure sensor system. It has also been noted that the inductive coupling variables significantly affect the coupling efficiency. In this study, the researchers have investigated the inductive coupling link variables for 3 transmitter coils and one receiver coil. They used a resonant frequency of 27 MHz as the operating frequency, based on the Industrial, Scientific and Medical (ISM) band. The experimental results indicated that the Voltage gain (i.e., Vgain) value of the inductive links was dependent on the Coupling Factor (K) existing between every coil and load resistance (i.e., Rload). It was also noted that the value of the Voltage gain increased with an increase in the implanted resistance, based on a constant coupling factor. Furthermore, the simulation results indicated that if the Rload=1000, the Vgain value would be maximal, whereas if Rload = 200Ω, the Vgain value would be minimal and ≈ 5V.These results indicated that the operating system could satisfy all the requirements for powering the implanted sensor biodevices.

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Smart Tactile Gloves for Haptic Interaction, Communication, and Rehabilitation

Ozioko

Dahiya

2021

Advanced Intelligent Systems

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Smart wearable technologies are rapidly revolutionizing our interactive experience with the real and virtual world through a variety of virtual and augmented reality (VR/AR) systems [1,2] as well as underpinning advances in several technological areas touching life, such as healthcare technologies, [3,4] assistive technologies, [5][6][7] smart homes, [8] and robotics. [9][10][11] With the remarkable progress in related underpinning technologies such as 5G/6G communication, [12] the Internet of things (IoT), [13] tactile Internet, [14] machine learning, [15] and neural computing, [16] one can only see bright prospects for smart wearable technologies such as intelligent human machine interfaces (HMIs). [17] The HMI is at the center of efficient collaboration between humans and the rapidly advancing digitalized world. [18,19] Although human interaction with the real or virtual world takes place through the five basic sensory modalities, the majority of HMI technologies rely on vision, audio, and touch-sensing modalities. The latter is the major modality when it comes to physical interaction. [2,20,21] However, sensory feedback alone is not enough as the two-way tactile communication from the contact point to the controlling unit (e.g., the brain in the case of humans) [10,22] is important for any effective interaction. To achieve two-way tactile communication, an interface that has the capability of sensing a stimulus and receiving feedback is desired. For example, with interactive VR/AR systems, the user can send information via touch sensors and receive signals via different modalities, including visual, auditory, haptic, vestibular, and olfactory stimuli. VR tools that use computer-based interactive simulations to enable users to engage in environments that appear and feel similar to the real world are considered to be considerably useful for rehabilitation. [23,24] Likewise, the AR systems can infuse interactive virtual elements into the physical environment and thus supplement the real world. [23] The quality of the user experience with these systems depends on the intuitive interface offered by these systems, and their ability to provide easy-to-understand information. However, most VR/AR systems primarily provide visual and auditory feedback, which does not provide verisimilar immersive experiences. This is particularly unsuitable for people with impaired senses, such as the deaf and blind. [25] Conventionally, the HMI has involved gadgets such as keyboards, joysticks, mouses, screens, and Braille. However, the majority of these gadgets have one of more drawbacks, such as being bulky and nonintuitive, having low precision for monitoring human motions or transmitting complex commands, and having no capability to generate a feedback signal based on tactile sensing. As the requirement for richer, more versatile, and seamless interactions rises, researchers have explored several wearable options with sensors based on various sensing mechanisms such as capacitive, [9,[26][27][28][29]

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Wearable and non-invasive assistive technologies

Cited by 4 publications

References 45 publications

The future of health tourism in the industrial revolution 4.0 era

The future of health tourism in the industrial revolution 4.0 era

Analysis of Four Coils by Inductive Powering Links for Powering Bio-implantable Sensor

Smart Tactile Gloves for Haptic Interaction, Communication, and Rehabilitation

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