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Eduardo Rocon
User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Neural Control of Muscles in Tremor Patients
Essential tremor and Parkinson’s disease cause abnormal oscillatory activity in a variety of brain structures that is transmitted to spinal motoneurons and generates tremor. Because the motoneuron pool integra...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Wearable Robotic Walker for Gait Rehabilitation and Assistance in Patients with Cerebral Palsy
Cerebral Palsy (CP) is the most common cause of permanent serious physical disability in childhood. New strategies are needed to help promote, maintain, and rehabilitate the functional capacity of children wit...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Non-supervised Feature Selection: Evaluation in a BCI for Single-Trial Recognition of Gait Preparation/Stop
Is presented a non-supervised method for feature selection based on similarity index, which is applied in a brain-computer interface (BCI) to recognize gait preparation/stops. Maximal information compression i...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
XoSoft - A Vision for a Soft Modular Lower Limb Exoskeleton
XoSoft is an EU project that proposes the development of a modular soft lower-limb exoskeleton to assist people with mobility impairments. It aims to be user friendly and comfortable to wear, with a significan...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
The CP Walker for Strength Training in Children with Spastic Cerebral Palsy: A Training Program Proposal
Eccentric and explosive strength training have the potential to stimulate in-series sarcomere addition in children with cerebral palsy (CP), as previously seen in typically develo** children. This adaptation...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Non-supervised Feature Selection: Evaluation in a BCI for Single-Trial Recognition of Gait Preparation/Stop
Is presented a non-supervised method for feature selection based on similarity index, which is applied in a brain-computer interface (BCI) to recognize gait preparation/stops. Maximal information compression i...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Bioinspired Hip Exoskeleton for Enhanced Physical Interaction
Exoskeletons are becoming one of the most promising devices to improve quality of life to injured patients to regain ability to walk. Bioinspired designs in exoskeletons could increase adaptability as well as ...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
An Optimization Approach to Design Control Strategies for Soft Wearable Passive Exoskeletons
Soft assistive devices constitute a promising alternative to help people with mobility impairments. Nevertheless, some issues as the control of these systems preclude from their generalized usage in common da...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
XoSoft Connected Monitor (XCM) Unsupervised Monitoring and Feedback in Soft Exoskeletons of 3D Kinematics, Kinetics, Behavioral Context and Control System Status
Intelligent soft exoskeletons are developed to be used unsupervised and continuously on a large scale in normal daily situations. As they miss the stiffness of the structural components of traditional robotic ...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Feature Consistency Criterion for Motor Imagery-Based Neuromodulation
Motor imagery (MI) has been increasingly studied for neurorehabilitation purposes. However, issues such as large intra- and inter-subject variability still limit its practical, and more clinical, applications....
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Robotic Rehabilitation in Cerebral Palsy: A Case Report
Cerebral palsy includes several posture and movement disorders which produce limitations in functional activities such as gait. In recent years robotics have been used as a complement of the treatment of neuro...
