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Upright standing posture is maintained through a continous sensing and muslce activation by the brain. Any relevant disability may result in an instable posture and thus increased body sway. To decrease body sway haptic feedback sensing can be used. This paper presents an experimental study about comparison of reduction in body sways using different haptic feedbacks. Anteroposterior (AP) and Mediolateral (ML) body sway were measured through a smartphone, and active feedback was provided using Phantom Omni device. Tests were performed in various postures and the body sway was analyzed with continuous haptic feedbacks. The study shows that active guidance to user produces more stability compared with sensory feedback.
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Afzal, M.R., Jan, Y., Hassan, S., Yoon, J. (2013). Analysis of Active Haptic Feedback Effects on Standing Stability. In: Lee, J., Lee, M.C., Liu, H., Ryu, JH. (eds) Intelligent Robotics and Applications. ICIRA 2013. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 8102. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-40852-6_18
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