UNLABELLED Purpose state: The aim of this preliminary study was to test a data glove, CyberTouch™, combined with a virtual reality (VR) environment, for using in therapeutic training of reaching movements after spinal cord injury (SCI). METHOD Nine patients with thoracic SCI were selected to perform a pilot study by comparing two treatments: patients in the intervention group (IG) conducted a...

OBJECTIVES International standard ISO 10819 was established in order to quantify the vibration attenuation characteristics of anti-vibration gloves. One problem that exists with the standard is possible misalignment of the palm adaptor that is placed underneath the test glove. If the adaptor becomes misaligned, the measured glove transmissibility will be lower than the actual value. A tri-axial...

BACKGROUND Sensitization to natural rubber latex has been linked to proteins from medical latex gloves. Various assays to estimate the amount of residual allergenic proteins extractable from latex gloves to assess their potential exposure hazard have inherent weaknesses. OBJECTIVE This investigation was aimed at developing 2-site immunoenzymetric assays and identifying appropriate protein mar...

In order to Investigate the knowledge and usage of personal protective equipments with 290 workers interviewed who were employed in 200 welding shops in Kerman. The data were recorded in a questionnaire. The results showed that in respect to personal protective equipments  31.4℅ had low knowledge, 50.3℅ medium knowledge and 18.3℅ good knowledge. Hand shieldwelding , safety goggles, clothes and ...

This paper proposes a general framework to enhance grasping interactions of an operator wearing a digital glove. We focus on a consistent interpretation of the posture information acquired with the glove in order to reflect the grasp of virtual artifacts. This allows manipulations requiring a higher skill in virtual environment and also improve interactions with virtual human models. A handshak...

Methods We developed a questionnaire based on the WHO glove use pyramid. The pyramid was used as campaign material for the most recent national hand hygiene campaign (end of campaign May, 2009). The final questionnaire contained 36 glove use indications with four response alternatives: “no gloves indicated”, “non-sterile gloves indicated”, “sterile gloves indicated” and “I do not know”. Demogr...

Data gloves are devices with a set of sensors for obtaining information about the movement of the hand and its fingers. In Virtual Reality, data gloves are widely used as input devices for its capability to interact with the computer for application development. Currently, there are many such devices, which are offered by specialized commercial companies at high costs. Nevertheless, in recent y...

classification of one hundred different dynamic gestures. The proposed system is light, not intrusive or obtrusive, to be easily utilized by deaf people in everyday life, and it has demonstrated valid results in terms of signs/words conversion.

Human strength and capabilities such as dexterity, manipulability, and tactile perception are unique and render the hand as a very versatile, effective, multipurpose tool. This is especially true for unknown microgravity environments such as the EVA environment. Facilitation of these activities, with simultaneous protection from the cruel EVA environment, are the two, often conflicting, objecti...