A review of textile-based electrodes developed for electrostimulation

2021 ◽  
pp. 004051752110519
Author(s):  
Luisa Euler ◽  
Li Guo ◽  
Nils-Krister Persson
Keyword(s):  
Skin Irritation ◽  
Ease Of Use ◽  
Muscle Injuries ◽  
Surface Electrodes ◽  
Excitable Tissue ◽  
Textile Electrode ◽  
State Of Research ◽  
Chronic Pain Conditions ◽  
Future Work ◽  
User Compliance

Electrical stimulation can be used for the treatment of various nerve and muscle injuries as well as acute and chronic pain conditions. An electrical pulse is applied to a muscle or nerve to activate excitable tissue using internal or external electrodes with the aim of building muscle strength, artificially creating or supporting limb movement or reducing pain. Textile electrodes offer several advantages over conventionally used disposable surface electrodes: they are flexible and re-usable and they do not require hydrogels, thereby avoiding skin irritation and allergic reactions and enhancing user comfort. This article presents a literature review that assesses the state of research on textile electrode constructions. Based on the review, production approaches and designs are compared, methods for evaluating stimulation discomfort and pain are proposed and issues related to user compliance are discussed. The article concludes with suggestions for future work focused on investigating the impacts of textile-based electrode parameters on comfort, convenience and ease of use.

scholarly journals Carsharing: a systematic literature review and research agenda

2021 ◽  
Vol 32 (6) ◽  
pp. 55-91
Author(s):  
Brenda Nansubuga ◽  
Christian Kowalkowski
Keyword(s):  
Literature Review ◽  
Business Models ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Service Research ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Customer Base ◽  
State Of Research ◽  
Systematic Selection ◽  
Future Work

PurposeFollowing the recent surge in research on carsharing, the paper synthesizes this growing literature to provide a comprehensive understanding of the current state of research and to identify directions for future work. Specifically, this study details implications for service theory and practice.Design/methodology/approachSystematic selection and analysis of 279 papers from the existing literature, published between 1996 and 2020.FindingsThe literature review identified four key themes: business models, drivers and barriers, customer behavior, and vehicle balancing.Practical implicationsFor managers, the study illuminates the importance of collaboration among stakeholders within the automotive sector for purposes of widening their customer base and maximizing utilization and profits. For policy makers, their important role in supporting carsharing take-off is highlighted with emphasis on balancing support rendered to different mobility services to promote mutual success.Originality/valueThis is the first systematic multi-disciplinary literature review of carsharing. It integrates insights from transportation, environmental, and business studies, identifying gaps in the existing research and specifically suggesting implications for service research.

Towards Usable Collaborative Virtual Reality Environments for Promoting Listening Comprehension

2011 ◽  
pp. 386-411
Author(s):  
Miguel A. Garcia-Ruiz ◽  
Arthur Edwards ◽  
Raul Aquino-Santos ◽  
Jay Shiro Tashiro ◽  
Bill Kapralos
Keyword(s):  
Virtual Reality ◽  
Second Language ◽  
Language Learning ◽  
Virtual Environment ◽  
Listening Comprehension ◽  
Ease Of Use ◽  
Qualitative Description ◽  
Computer Assisted ◽  
Collaborative Virtual Reality ◽  
Future Work

This chapter investigates whether an educational virtual environment can be developed to practice listening comprehension skills that meets second language student needs, complies with usability criteria, and is motivating to use. The chapter also investigates whether the usability of virtual reality(VR) technology positively affects language learning listening comprehension. It provides background research and information in Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL), VR, and second language methodology. It then presents a technical and qualitative description of Realtown, a virtual environment designed to promote listening comprehension. This chapter also describes a usability study of Realtown. Student errors, motivation, and ease of use, among other features, were positively measured on listening comprehension activities in Realtown. Future work includes longitudinal studies on learning issues, first-person, and collaborative experiences in VR, including the impact of VR on learning and knowledge transfer when combined with traditional instruction.

scholarly journals Systematic review of textile-based electrodes for long-term and continuous surface electromyography recording

2019 ◽  
Vol 90 (2) ◽  
pp. 227-244
Author(s):  
Li Guo ◽  
Leif Sandsjö ◽  
Max Ortiz-Catalan ◽  
Mikael Skrifvars
Keyword(s):  
Systematic Review ◽  
Health Monitoring ◽  
Surface Electromyography ◽  
Electrode Materials ◽  
Myoelectric Activity ◽  
Self Administration ◽  
Smart Textile ◽  
Textile Electrode ◽  
Future Work

This systematic review concerns the use of smart textiles enabled applications based on myoelectric activity. Electromyography (EMG) is the technique for recording and evaluating electric signals related to muscle activity (myoelectric). EMG is a well-established technique that provides a wealth of information for clinical diagnosis, monitoring, and treatment. Introducing sensor systems that allow for ubiquitous monitoring of health conditions using textile integrated solutions not only opens possibilities for ambulatory, long-term, and continuous health monitoring outside the hospital, but also for autonomous self-administration. Textile-based electrodes have demonstrated potential as a fully operational alternative to ‘standard’ Ag/AgCl electrodes for recording surface electromyography (sEMG) signals. As a substitute for Ag/AgCl electrodes fastened to the skin by taping or pre-gluing adhesive, textile-based electrodes have the advantages of being soft, flexible, and air permeable; thus, they have advantages in medicine and health monitoring, especially when self-administration, real-time, and long-term monitoring is required. Such advances have been achieved through various smart textile techniques; for instance, adding functions in textiles, including fibers, yarns, and fabrics, and various methods for incorporating functionality into textiles, such as knitting, weaving, embroidery, and coating. In this work, we reviewed articles from a textile perspective to provide an overview of sEMG applications enabled by smart textile strategies. The overview is based on a literature evaluation of 41 articles published in both peer-reviewed journals and conference proceedings focusing on electrode materials, fabrication methods, construction, and sEMG applications. We introduce four textile integration levels to further describe the various textile electrode sEMG applications reported in the reviewed literature. We conclude with suggestions for future work along with recommendations for the reporting of essential benchmarking information in current and future textile electrode applications.

scholarly journals Perlustration on Recent Research into Multi Clouds integrated with Multi Party Computation

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (6) ◽  
pp. 587-592
Keyword(s):  
Cloud Computing ◽  
Real Time ◽  
Short Note ◽  
Research Work ◽  
Cloud Security ◽  
Ease Of Use ◽  
Technological Advancement ◽  
Future Work ◽  
Cloud Technologies ◽  
Multi Cloud

Recent advances in multi cloud technologies and multi-party computations have improved State of art usage of Cloud computing in real time scenarios. Primary reason behind using any service offered by others is ease of use with lesser economics. Cloud Computing is technological advancement which is in usage for last two decades because of its Pay-per-Usage policy offering enormous benefits across the user community. In spite of its enormous benefits, single factor which is stepping it back from its wider adoption throughout the digital society is its Security. Tremendous research work was done across industry and academia in association with cloud security. This paper focuses on brief history, real time deployment of cloud, usage, benefits, risks associated and Surveys various studies done by national and international organizations related to cloud security concerns and dwell upon the advantages of integrating multi clouds and multi-party computation techniques and emphasizes on recent research done across multi cloud environment and give a short note of future work to enhance security paradigm.

scholarly journals Requirements engineering for User-Centered school food ordering system

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 357
Author(s):  
Diyana Binti Halim Khoo ◽  
Afdallyna Fathiyah Harun ◽  
Saiful Izwan Suliman
Keyword(s):  
System Design ◽  
Ease Of Use ◽  
Perceived Usefulness ◽  
Perceived Ease Of Use ◽  
School Food ◽  
Technology Design ◽  
User Requirement ◽  
System A ◽  
Future Work ◽  
User Centered

<span>Understanding user requirement for a technology design is central to user experience. A user-centered technology design should consider user needs and constraints as well as abide to the principles of HCI design heuristics. This paper describes the requirements gathering for Kantin Online System, a school food ordering system where we considered the needs and constraints of different stakeholders involved and elicit a compromise where the needs of all parties can be met. We then applied usability heuristics into the system design to facilitate perceived ease of use and perceived usefulness. We conclude this paper with experts’ evaluations towards the heuristic elements of the system design concept and possible future work.</span>

scholarly journals Smart Final Year Project Archive System Using Laravel Framework with Email Notification (SFYPAS)

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 41-53
Author(s):  
Abidah MatTaib ◽  
Noor Atirah Mohd Shukri ◽  
Nurul Hidayah Ahmad Zukri ◽  
Norlizawati Ghazali
Keyword(s):  
Technology Acceptance ◽  
User Acceptance ◽  
Ease Of Use ◽  
Perceived Usefulness ◽  
Perceived Ease Of Use ◽  
Web Based ◽  
The Past ◽  
Archive System ◽  
Acceptance Model ◽  
Future Work

Final Year Project (FYP) is a compulsory requirement for graduation of every bachelor programme in Universiti Teknologi MARA (UiTM). Finding a topic for the final year project is quite challenging. However, being able to access previous FYP thesis helps students to generate some ideas. Supervisors and lecturers can also determine whether the proposed project is already among the previous research project or a new one. Unfortunately, the past FYP thesis is usually kept in a specific thesis room. Hence, this will make going to the thesis room and searching the thesis for references quite burdensome. The lack of electronic management for FYP thesis causes several problems in arrangement and search methods. This project aims to develop Smart Final Year Project Archive System (SFYPAS) using Laravel Framework and evaluate the system in terms of technology acceptance model (TAM). SFYPAS is developed using Laravel framework and the methodology used throughout the project is using Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC). The system tested based on its functionality, user acceptance with TAM and heuristic evaluation by an expert. The system was tested on thirty respondents who shared their feedback by answering a set of questionnaires upon completing the testing. The result shows that the mean for user acceptance with TAM in terms of perceived ease of use is 4.27, while perceived usefulness is 4.47. Thus, it shows that the respondents are satisfied with the system in terms of its perceived usefulness. In conclusion, this research has achieved the objectives where it eases the user by providing a web-based smart archive system as a platform to access the past FYP thesis. For future work, the system can be improved by adding a search engine that implements any searching algorithm to yield a better result.

scholarly journals The Neuroscience of Dance: A Systematic Review of the Present State of Research and Suggestions for Future Work

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Olivia Foster Vander Elst ◽  
Peter Vuust ◽  
Morten L. Kringelbach ◽  
Nicholas HD Foster
Keyword(s):  
Systematic Review ◽  
Present State ◽  
Dance Therapy ◽  
The Other ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Dance Performance ◽  
Comprehensive Review ◽  
Vital Part ◽  
State Of Research ◽  
Future Work

Ancient and culturally universal, dance is important in many areas of life and brings pleasure, motivational, and health benefits. This is the first comprehensive review of research into its neuroscientific aspects. To produce it, we devised a map of the field, identified relevant papers using the PRISMA guidelines, then summarised and evaluated the results of those papers. We also suggest avenues for future research in: the interactive and collective aspects of dance; groove; dance performance; dance observation; and dance therapy. The interactive and collective aspects of dance constitute a vital part of the field, but have received almost no attention to date. More research has been conducted in the other areas, but they would benefit from additional attention.

Gender and Age

2015 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 32-51 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emad Ahmed Abu-Shanab
Keyword(s):  
Technology Acceptance ◽  
Ease Of Use ◽  
Perceived Usefulness ◽  
Intention To Use ◽  
Perceived Ease Of Use ◽  
Government Services ◽  
Factors Influencing ◽  
Gender And Age ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Future Work

The importance of e-government projects is driving research in the area of technology acceptance to better understand the factors influencing the adoption of such projects and thus the success of e-government. Among the factors influencing the intention to use e-government projects are: perceived usefulness, perceived ease of use, social influence and trust. These relationships also are moderated by gender and age and previous literature supported such premise. This study utilized a sample of Jordanians who filled a survey consisting of items measuring the previously mentioned constructs. Results supported the proposed research model, where intention to use e-government services was significantly predicted by all proposed variables. Age and gender were significant predictors of e-government services when added to the model. Unfortunately, only one relationship was moderated by age and no relationships where moderated by gender. The detailed findings, conclusions and future work are discussed further in this paper.

scholarly journals Evaluation of Functional Electrical Stimulation to Assist Cycling in Four Adolescents with Spastic Cerebral Palsy

2012 ◽  
Vol 2012 ◽  
pp. 1-11 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ann Tokay Harrington ◽  
Calum G. A. McRae ◽  
Samuel C. K. Lee
Keyword(s):  
Cerebral Palsy ◽  
Electrical Stimulation ◽  
Functional Electrical Stimulation ◽  
Power Output ◽  
Cycling Performance ◽  
Cardiovascular Fitness ◽  
Spastic Cerebral Palsy ◽  
Surface Electrodes ◽  
Future Work

Introduction. Adolescents with cerebral palsy (CP) often have difficulty participating in exercise at intensities necessary to improve cardiovascular fitness. Functional electrical stimulation- (FES-) assisted cycling is proposed as a form of exercise for adolescents with CP. The aims of this paper were to adapt methods and assess the feasibility of applying FES cycling technology in adolescents with CP, determine methods of performing cycling tests in adolescents with CP, and evaluate the immediate effects of FES assistance on cycling performance.Materials/Methods. Four participants (12–14 years old; GMFCS levels III-IV) participated in a case-based pilot study of FES-assisted cycling in which bilateral quadriceps muscles were activated using surface electrodes. Cycling cadence, power output, and heart rate were collected.Results. FES-assisted cycling was well tolerated (n=4) and cases are presented demonstrating increased cadence (2–43 rpm), power output (19–70%), and heart rates (4-5%) and decreased variability (8–13%) in cycling performance when FES was applied, compared to volitional cycling without FES assistance. Some participants (n=2) required the use of an auxiliary hub motor for assistance.Conclusions. FES-assisted cycling is feasible for individuals with CP and may lead toimmediateimprovements in cycling performance. Future work will examine the potential for long-term fitness gains using this intervention.

Textile-based ECG acquisition system with capacitively coupled electrodes

2016 ◽  
Vol 39 (2) ◽  
pp. 141-148 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hongqiang Li ◽  
Xuelong Chen ◽  
Lu Cao ◽  
Cheng Zhang ◽  
Chunxiao Tang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Signal To Noise Ratio ◽  
Steel Wire ◽  
Skin Irritation ◽  
Integrated System ◽  
Capacitive Coupling ◽  
Acquisition System ◽  
Capacitively Coupled ◽  
Textile Electrode ◽  
Conductive Textile ◽  
Analogue To Digital

In most traditional electrocardiogram (ECG) detection procedures, wet electrodes must be glued to the skin during the procedure and may cause problems such as inconvenience and skin irritation. Furthermore, the quality of the acquired signals decreases because the glue dehydrates over time. In this study, a non-contact ECG acquisition system based on capacitive coupling textile electrodes with low-power consumption and high input impedance is presented. We designed electrodes that have a composite and textile structure. A kind of conductive textile with stainless steel wire creates these electrodes. We wove the conductive textile that has good electrical conductivity with a surface resistivity of 1.25 Ω/sq. Both circuit models of the skin–electrode interface and amplifier for the capacitively coupled textile electrode were established, and the output signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) of the front-end circuit was proposed. The integrated system combines amplification, filter circuit and analogue-to-digital converter. The final measurement shows that the ECG signals acquired by our system are adequate for heartbeat detection and applicable to clinical practice.

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