A wireless instrumented insole device for real-time sonification of gait

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Horsak, Brian
Iber, Michael
Bauer, Karin
Kiselka, Anita
Gorgas, Anna-Maria
Dlapka, Ronald
Doppler, Jakob
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The treatment of gait disorders or impairments is one major challenge in physical therapy. The broad and fast development in low-cost, miniaturized and wireless sensing technologies supported the development of embedded and unobtrusive systems for robust gait-related data acquisition and analysis. Next to their application as portable and lowcost diagnosis tools, such systems bear also the capability of using them as feedback devices during gait retraining to foster motor learning processes. The approach described within this project applies movement-based sonification of gait to foster motor learning aspects during gait retraining. In detail the aim of this manuscript is threefold: (1) present a prototype (the SONIGait device) of a pair of wireless, sensor insoles instrumented with force-sensors for real-time data transmission and acquisition on a mobile client, (2) present the development of a set of sonification prototypes for realtime audible feedback and (3) evaluate the sonification prototypes as well as the SONIGait device within a pilot study
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2015-07
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