To increase health education we applied blended learning concept by combining physical activity and elearning technology. Investigation aims to create, apply and assess learning tasks. 201 high school students (15-22 years, 17,6±1.4) were divided in control (CG) and practical (PG) group. PG was exposed to several problems solving using physical activity and technology to accomplish the goals. T...

We present here a comprehensive definition of therapeutic exergames from which a methodology to create safe exergames for real therapy pathways is derived. Three main steps are identified. (I) A clear identification of all the exercise requirements, not only in terms of goals of the therapy, but also in terms of additional constraints. Characteristic parameters for determining the challenge lev...

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Osteotomies around the knee address lower limb deformities that affect the leg posture and especially the knee joint. Knee arthritis is a very common age-related joint disease that can be treated with osteotomy, as an alternative to knee replacement by implants. The preoperative planning process is demanding and significantly determines the surgical out-come. The choice of the osteotomy type an...

This paper presents a novel robot grasping planning approach that extracts grasp strategies (grasp type, and thumb placement and direction) from human demonstration and integrates them into the grasp planning procedure to generate a feasible grasp concerning the target object geometry and manipulation task. Our study results show that the grasp strategies of grasp type and thumb placement not o...

We studied the effects of the lower leg bi-articular muscle in vertebrates in jumping. We used the proposed Jumping Jack model in computer simulation to analyze the impact of bi-articular muscle on postural jumping stability, energy transition caused by postural change, and the relationship between the ground reaction force and the center of gravity. We made a trial model and measured the jumpi...

This paper addresses a novel approach to recognizing several humans' postures from just a single eigenspace and investigates a practical problem associated with dress changes in recognizing human postures automatically employing an eigenspace technique. A single eigenspace is prepared employing an ordinary man’s several orientations and various humans' postures are recognized from it. The dress...

background: diabetes mellitus is one of the most important causes of morbidity and mortality all over the world. chronic high blood glucose is the root cause of developing future micro and macro vascular complications. in current study, we analyzed poorly controlled patients’ information by clustering method in order to find more homogenous sub-groups of patients for planning for further interv...

30 institutionalised severely subnormal (SSN) subjects and 30 matched severely subnormal individuals attending the outpatient services of the Institute of Mental Health, Madras were evaluated for their behaviour characteristics using a schedule containing two scales,the social and physical incapacity (SPI) scale and the speech, self help and literacy (SSL) scale. Destructive behaviour, self inj...