Mind-Machine Interface (MMI) is a newly surfaced term in the field of control engineering and rehabilitation systems. This technique, coupled with the existing functional electrical stimulation (FES) systems, can be very beneficial for effective rehabilitation of disabled patients. This paper presents a conceptual framework for the development of MMI based FES systems for therapeutic aid and fu...

To evaluate the physiological effects of FES-cycling, it is crucial that both cadence cycling and workrate are well controlled. However, the major impediment to the development of satisfactory control systems for FES has been the highly non-linear and time-varying properties of electrically stimulated muscle which make control very difficult to achieve and limit the utility of open-loop FES con...

Many patients with spinal injures are confined to wheelchairs, leading to a sedentary lifestyle with secondary pathologies and increased dependence on a carer. Increasing evidence has shown that training using devices such as Reciprocating Gait Orthoses (RGO) reduces the incidence of these secondary pathologies, but the physical effort involved in this training is such that there is poor compli...

We have recently completed doctoral research on the reconstruction of paraplegic men’s and women’s vocational trajectories in French-speaking Switzerland. Based three female informants’ life narratives, we analyse issues gendered guidance, pathways identities people’s courses. shape some emancipating experience models discourses about action, which empower informants their pathways. Our objecti...