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Symbian device control using muscle activity - a case study part 2
ahoccc | 30 September, 2006 00:44
In my previous blog "Symbian device control using muscle activity - a case study" I assumed that the reader is familiar with my older blog postings and I did not explain the motivation for muscle control case study. I encountered questions about the rationality of the muscle control. The case was directly related to health and wellness as all my previous blog entries. The main reason to use EMG (electromyography) for controlling mobile is to give health exercises through motivating experiences like playing games. I like to call this "health entertainment". And with the EMG the user can be “guided” to use the actual muscles and not just e.g. to move the hand around (EMG should not be confused with motion sensor). There has been quite a lot of discussion how obesity is increasing amongst today young people. And what do young people like to do? Play games! My point was to bring another dimension to playing while improving your health and doing health exercises without even noticing it. EMG provides excellent approach for that. Surely in addition to EMG parameters like heartbeat, motion detected by goniometer and location information like GPS and also other parameters can be and most likely should be added to give optimal results for exercise while boosting the entertainment experience. Many of these are actually already use in sports related activities to measure effectiveness of the exercise. So basically with goniometer I can add the ability to control x-y-coordinates e.g. by wrist movement and by heart beat monitoring I can add general stress measurement and by EMG I can add actual muscle activity monitoring. With all these only the imagination is the limit when thinking of possible use cases. And of course all these parameters can be monitored using wireless Bluetooth communications. Anyway my example case was limited to EMG only. And of course in professional health care this kind of EMG mobile solution could be used to rehabilitate person muscles when person has had e.g. some kind of slight paralysis and muscle training is needed. Motivating visual feedback speeds up the rehabilitation process. Person could perform trainings at own home and report results to clinic using mobile phone data transfer instead of visiting the clinic to do the exercises. Find more related topics in my blogs here.
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I need one for my research!
hrajabalipour | 05/11/2009, 09:27
Hi Dear
could you tell me how i can have one of this system. i am searching a lot for finding some thing like "Symbian device control using muscle activity"
please help me to find. thank you so much
Hossein R. C.
Re: Symbian device control using muscle activity - a case study part 2
cool_li | 30/09/2006, 12:22
You are greate, there are very intresting things, cool fashion! could you post any more informations about this case.
Thank you