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SmartBathroom: Developing a smart environment to study bathroom transfers
SmartBathroom: Developing a smart environment to study bathroom transfers
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Jones, Brian D.
Pandey, Shiva
Presti, Peter
Taylor, Russell
Natarajan, Prasanna
Mahajan, Shambhavi
Mahajan, Harshal P.
Sanford, Jon
Pandey, Shiva
Presti, Peter
Taylor, Russell
Natarajan, Prasanna
Mahajan, Shambhavi
Mahajan, Harshal P.
Sanford, Jon
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Abstract
Individuals’ functional abilities change over
time; they increase and then decrease over the
lifespan, and in some they may fluctuate over
the course of a day. While these fluctuations
may not impact one’s ability to engage in daily
activities, they can be problematic for people
aging with disability or a progressive chronic
condition such as arthritis or multiple sclerosis,
particularly when performing toilet or
shower/bath transfers. Although various
assistive technologies (AT) and environmental
modifications are designed to facilitate
bathroom transfers, they are static solutions,
selected to match an individual’s ability at one
point in time rather than providing a dynamic
environment that can adapt to support
changing abilities.
The SmartBathroom Laboratory is being
developed as part of the RERC TechSAge as a
highly sensed, adjustable residential bathroom
environment to accommodate a wide variety of
research studies on task performance during
bathroom transfers. These studies will focus on
identifying the problems faced by people with
functional limitations as they age as well as on
exploring viable solutions to these problems. In
this paper, we describe design and engineering
requirements, challenges, and choices in the
development of the SmartBathroom Laboratory.
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2017
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