Paper Info
Title
GaitAssist: a daily-life support and training system for parkinson's disease patients with freezing of gait
Abstract
Patients with Parkinson's disease often experience freezing of gait, which bears a high risk of falling, a prevalent cause for morbidity and mortality. In this work we present GaitAssist, a wearable system for freezing of gait support in daily life. The system provides real-time auditory cueing after the onset of freezing episodes. Furthermore, GaitAssist implements training exercises to learn how to handle freezing situations. GaitAssist is the result of a design process where we considered the input of engineers, clinicians and 18 Parkinson's disease patients, in order to find an optimal trade-off between system wearability and performance. We tested the final system in a user study with 5 additional patients. They reported a reduction in the freezing of gait duration as a result of the auditory stimulation provided, and that they feel the system enhanced their confidence during walking.
Year
DOI
Venue
2014
10.1145/2556288.2557278
CHI
Keywords
Field
DocType
gait support,disease patient,gait duration,freezing situation,freezing episode,system wearability,final system,training system,auditory stimulation,daily-life support,real-time auditory,wearable system
Disease,Life support,Parkinson's disease,Gait,Training system,Computer science,Wearable computer,Simulation,Human–computer interaction,Physical medicine and rehabilitation,Frost (temperature),Auditory stimulation
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
20
1.15
13
Authors
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Sinziana Mazilu11129.39
Ulf Blanke269936.03
Michael Hardegger31308.89
Gerhard Tröster42493250.70
Eran Gazit5534.48
Jeffrey M. Hausdorff619720.74