TY - GEN
T1 - SoleSound
T2 - 5th IEEE RAS and EMBS International Conference on Biomedical Robotics and Biomechatronics, BioRob 2014
AU - Zanotto, Damiano
AU - Turchet, Luca
AU - Boggs, Emily Marie
AU - Agrawal, Sunil K.
PY - 2014/9/30
Y1 - 2014/9/30
N2 - This paper introduces the design of SoleSound, a wearable system designed to deliver ecological, audio-tactile, underfoot feedback. The device, which primarily targets clinical applications, uses an audio-tactile footstep synthesis engine informed by the readings of pressure and inertial sensors embedded in the footwear to integrate enhanced feedback modalities into the authors' previously developed instrumented footwear. The synthesis models currently implemented in the SoleSound simulate different ground surface interactions. Unlike similar devices, the system presented here is fully portable, and can therefore be utilized outside the laboratory setting. A first experimental evaluation indicates that the device can effectively modulate the perception of the ground surface during walking, thereby, inducing changes in the gait of healthy subjects.
AB - This paper introduces the design of SoleSound, a wearable system designed to deliver ecological, audio-tactile, underfoot feedback. The device, which primarily targets clinical applications, uses an audio-tactile footstep synthesis engine informed by the readings of pressure and inertial sensors embedded in the footwear to integrate enhanced feedback modalities into the authors' previously developed instrumented footwear. The synthesis models currently implemented in the SoleSound simulate different ground surface interactions. Unlike similar devices, the system presented here is fully portable, and can therefore be utilized outside the laboratory setting. A first experimental evaluation indicates that the device can effectively modulate the perception of the ground surface during walking, thereby, inducing changes in the gait of healthy subjects.
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U2 - 10.1109/biorob.2014.6913775
DO - 10.1109/biorob.2014.6913775
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84918528478
T3 - Proceedings of the IEEE RAS and EMBS International Conference on Biomedical Robotics and Biomechatronics
SP - 193
EP - 198
BT - "2014 5th IEEE RAS and EMBS International Conference on Biomedical Robotics and Biomechatronics, BioRob 2014
A2 - Carloni, Raffaella
A2 - Masia, Lorenzo
A2 - Sabater-Navarro, Jose Maria
A2 - Ackermann, Marko
A2 - Agrawal, Sunil
A2 - Ajoudani, Arash
A2 - Artemiadis, Panagiotis
A2 - Bianchi, Matteo
A2 - Lanari Bo, Antonio Padilha
A2 - Casadio, Maura
A2 - Cleary, Kevin
A2 - Deshpande, Ashish
A2 - Formica, Domenico
A2 - Fumagalli, Matteo
A2 - Garcia-Aracil, Nicolas
A2 - Godfrey, Sasha Blue
A2 - Khalil, Islam S.M.
A2 - Lambercy, Olivier
A2 - Loureiro, Rui C. V.
A2 - Mattos, Leonardo
A2 - Munoz, Victor
A2 - Park, Hyung-Soon
A2 - Rodriguez Cheu, Luis Eduardo
A2 - Saltaren, Roque
A2 - Siqueira, Adriano A. G.
A2 - Squeri, Valentina
A2 - Stienen, Arno H.A.
A2 - Tsagarakis, Nikolaos
A2 - Van der Kooij, Herman
A2 - Vanderborght, Bram
A2 - Vitiello, Nicola
A2 - Zariffa, Jose
A2 - Zollo, Loredana
Y2 - 12 August 2014 through 15 August 2014
ER -