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Cross-Border Life in Europe: Daily Mobility in the Trinational Metropolis of Basel

In Europe about 2 million people work and live in two different countries. While at the European scale cross-border workers only account for a limited portion of the working-age population, in some regions cross-border work takes a huge importance. In thes ...

2017

Spatial dependence of body mass index and exposure to night-time noise in the Geneva urban area

Jérôme Chenal, Stéphane Joost, Idris Guessous, Andrea Salmi

In this study, we calculated the night-noise mean (SonBase 2014, compatible with the EU Environmental Noise Directive) for the 5 classes obtained after computation of Local Indicators of Spatial Association (LISA; Anselin et al 1995) on the BMI of the part ...

2017

Design and Characterization of a Lightweight and Fully Portable Remote Actuation System for Use With a Hand Exoskeleton

Roger Gassert, Olivier Lambercy, Jumpei Arata

Enabling individuals who are living with reduced mobility of the hand to utilize portable exoskeletons at home has the potential to deliver rehabilitation therapies with a greater intensity and relevance to activities of daily living. Various hand exoskele ...

2016

Neuroprosthetic System Restoring Upper Limb Function Through Coordinated Electrical Stimulation

Andrea Biasiucci, Andrea Maesani

Neuroprosthetic device for restoring daily-life action movements of upper limbs in patients suffering from motor impairments. The neuroprosthetic device comprises several non-invasive electrodes adapted to be fixed on a patient body, in a way as to stimula ...

2016

Anomaly detection in elderly daily behavior in ambient sensing environments

Daniel Gatica-Perez, Oya Aran, Dairazalia Sanchez Cortes

Current ubiquitous computing applications for smart homes aim to enhance people’s daily living respecting age span. Among the target groups of people, elderly are a population eager for “choices for living arrangements”, which would allow them to continue ...

Springer Int Publishing Ag2016

Development of Walk Assistive Orthoses for Elderly

Jeremy Olivier

The proportion of elderly people is rapidly growing and the resources to help them will soon be insufficient. An important difficulty faced by the seniors is locomotion. Among the conditions that may be responsible for gait impairment, the reduced muscular ...

EPFL2016

Stretchable Materials for Robust Soft Actuators towards Assistive Wearable Devices

Jamie Paik, Gunjan Agarwal, Basile Nicolas Audergon, Nicolas Besuchet

Soft actuators made from elastomeric active materials can find widespread potential implementation in a variety of applications ranging from assistive wearable technologies targeted at biomedical rehabilitation or assistance with activities of daily living ...

2016

Control Strategies for Active Lower Extremity Prosthetics and Orthotics: A Review

José del Rocio Millán Ruiz, Hannes Bleuler, Mohamed Bouri, Roger Gassert, Olivier Lambercy, Jeremy Olivier

Technological advancements have led to the development of numerous wearable robotic devices for the physical assistance and restoration of human locomotion. While many challenges remain with respect to the mechanical design of such devices, it is at least ...

BioMed Central2015

Physical activity monitoring based on wearable technology combining inertial and barometric pressure sensors

Fabien Massé

Stroke, or cerebral-vascular accident is the leading cause of disabilities in the western world. It primarily affects mobility due to a degradation of principal motor functions such as balance and gait. This reduction of mobility directly impacts the spect ...

EPFL2015

Mechanisms for actuated assistive hip orthoses

Hannes Bleuler, Mohamed Bouri, Jeremy Olivier, Amalric Louis Ortlieb

Mobility is often a central problem for people having muscle weaknesses. The need for new devices to assist walking and walk related activities is therefore growing. Lower limb actuated orthoses have already proven their positive impact with paraplegic pat ...

Elsevier2014

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