Pilot Study for the Investigation of the functional ability of the SmartPointer (SP) demonstrator for the eldery under laboratory conditions. SmartPointer (SP) laboratory study
- Conditions
- R26Abnormalities of gait and mobility
- Registration Number
- DRKS00017474
- Lead Sponsor
- Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Complete
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 29
Inclusion Criteria
Elderly aged 60 and above without physical impairments and with limitations in mobility (use of a walker, wheelchair, walking stick or similar). Written informed consent and participant information sheet.
Exclusion Criteria
Elderly aged 59 or younger, severe cognitive impairment MMSE <24, presence of legal care taker, recent surgery on the dominant hand which will make the execution of gestures with the remote not possible or just under severe pain. Tremor or arthrosis in the dominant Hand, elderly with severe limitations of vision, so that the light of the remote cannot be recognised, elderly with red-green impairment (dyschromatopsia)
Study & Design
- Study Type
- observational
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method The following validated questionnaires will be used<br>-Mini Mental State Examination (MMSE) (Fol-stein et al., 1975)<br>- Questionnaire technology commitment (Neyer et al., 2012)<br>- system usability scale - SUS (Bangor et al., 2008)
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method It will be investigated, to what extent external factors influence the gesture recognition by login data, video recordings of the executed gestures and an additional self developed protocol whereby it will be recorded if an executed gesture is correctly being recognized by the detector and transformed into the right action (operation targeted device). Thereby an action can be visualized by green (working)/red (not working) lights on the device.