Sleeve Sensing Technologies and Haptic Feedback Patterns for Posture Sensing and Correction
The world population is aging rapidly. There is an increasing need for health assistance personnel, such as nurses and physiotherapeutic experts, in developed countries. On the other hand, there is a need to improve health care assistance to the population, and especially to elderly people. This will mostly benefit specific user groups, such as elderly, patients recovering from physical injury, or athletes. This paper describes a wearable sleeve being developed under the scope of the Augmented Human Assistance (AHA) project for assisting people. It proposes a new architecture for providing haptic feedback through patterns created by multiple actuators. Different sensing technologies are analyzed and discussed.