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This collection of pages provide training materials for rehabilitation engineering and human performance, including resources on access engineering, telerehabilitation and neurorehabilitation. While intended primarily to support our BIEN 167 course, this site also serves as a resource for others interested in these areas.
BIEN 167 Syllabus
Modules (each ~3 weeks):
- Rehabilitative science foundations: healing biodynamics at the cell-tissue-organ-person levels, and understanding effects of interventions
- Consensus terminology and models for the rehabilitation/disability field
- Existing infrastructure for the field of clinical rehabilitation and physical medicine
- Clinical rehab engineering and the Human Activity / Assistive Technology (HAAT) model
- Rehabilitative continuum of care as a optimization problem
- Conceptual Models of Human Performance and Interface Design
- Terminology and approaches in rehabilitation and ergonomics
- Basics of sensorimotor control (feedback, feedforward)
- Principles of Universal Design, usability analysis and user-centered analysis
- Components of Sensory Performance and Relation to Technology
- Vision, gaze ... and video codes, resolution and sampling
- Hearing, speaking ... and audio codecs, frequency content, volume
- Reflexes, spasticity, positioning ... and measurement sampling
- Arms, reaching, tracking ... and robotic manipulators
- Hands, grasping, manipulation ... and computer interface devices
- Example: Virtual reality/environments
- Tools for Integrative Task Analysis
- Approaches to task analysis in rehabilitation (will include guest lecture)
- Relation to fields of ergonomics and usability engineering
- Human-computer interface analysis (e.g., augmentative communication)
- Use of Mobile Usability Lab (MU-Lab) for usability and accessibility analysis
- Foundations: Access to information and services through accessible interfaces and telecommunications
- Accessible design regulations Related to Section 508 of Rehab Act
- Accessible Design and Universal Design
- Universal Access Concepts
- Accessibility Guidance for Medical Devices
- Models for Telerehabilitation
- Process models (teleconsultation, telehomecare, telemonitoring, teletherapy, ...)
- Telehealth conceptual model (science of rehab bioprocess, human-technology interfaces, behavior/compliance)
- Optimization modeling framework
- Telehealth Technologies
- ITU's videoconferencing standards: H.320, H.324, H.323
- IP-based multimedia conferencing (e.g., H.323 vs SIP, MPEG, streaming, multicast)
- Wireless standards (e.g., IEEE 802.a/b/g, Bluetooth)
- Other technologies (e.g., vitals, activity monitoring)
- Example: Cardiopulmonary rehab
- Background: Aims of aerobic exercise therapy, often comorbidities,
- Challenges of compliance, access to information/services; roles for tele-assessment
- Ergometer features, interfaces and accessibility considerations
- Lab demo of tele-exercise
- Brief overview of biomechanics behind mobility and manipulation technologies
- Statics, solids, materials, kinematics, dynamics
- Principles of bi-causal mechanical interfaces
- Seated mobility devices
- Wheelchair considerations
- Seating considerations
- Positioning considerations
- Sports wheelchairs
- Device assisting manipulation tasks
- Concept of Extended Physiological Proprioception (EPP)
- Upper extremity prosthetics: body-powered
- Upper extremity prosthetics: externally-powered
- Upper extremity orthotics
- Joysticks (mainstream, customized)
- Therapeutic and assistive robotics
- Model of Rehabilitation Plan of Care (e.g., Neurorehab from Traumatic Event)
- Conceptual framework: diagnosis, prognosis, intervention, assessment, outcomes
- "Systems" analysis of this framework, as an optimization problem
- Mathematical model using fuzzy inference systems
- Conventional Approaches to Diagnosis, Intervention and Outcomes Assessment
- Patient records (paper, electronic)
- Scales ("instruments" "forms" "measures") - by trained observer and/or self-report
- Objective (sensor-based) measures (not common, but examples from PT, speech, gait)
- Innovative Approaches in Neurorehab
- Classification: Assessment, intervention/therapy, activity monitoring (e.g., wearable)
- Interventions: E-stim, CI movement therapy, rehab robotics, computer-assisted motivating therapy
- Examples from stroke rehab
- UniTherapy Software for Assistive/Remote Therapy and Teleassessment (guest lecture by Xin "Tyre" Feng)
- Structural organization of package
- Hands-on examples (tracking tasks, systems identification, telerehab tools)
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