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Light Touch Based Virtual Cane For Balance Assistance During Standing, Sindhu Reddy Alluri
Light Touch Based Virtual Cane For Balance Assistance During Standing, Sindhu Reddy Alluri
Masters Theses
"Can additional information about one's body kinematics provided through hands improve human balance? Light-Touch (LT) through hands helps improve balance in a wide range of populations, both healthy and impaired. The force is too small to provide any meaningful mechanical assistance -- rather, it is suggested that the additional sensory information through hands helps the body improve balance.
To investigate the potential for improving human balance through biofeedback through hands, we developed a Virtual Cane (VC) for balance assistance during standing. The VC mimics the physical cane's function of providing information about one's body in space. Balance experiments on 10 …