title: The haptic kymograph: a diagnostic tele-haptic device for sensation of vital signs.
abstract: The kymograph is device for measuring and presenting pressure-based signals, such as human heart beat and artery volume pressure. The Haptic Kymograph is a haptically-enhanced tele-medicine system which is used to acquire human vital signs and then to transform these signs into sensible, scalable and ubiquitous media so that a user can easily comprehend subtle and ambiguous signals in a remote place. In an experiment setup a patient's artery pressure pulse was captured at 200 Hz of sampling rate, transmitted via TCP/IP network, and replicated in a remote place using a PHANToM haptic device coupled with a real-time visual interface. In this paper we report our recent progresses in developing a low-cost input system, network interfaces and haptic replication of the human artery volume pulse signal.
authors.affiliation: Virtual Reality Laboratory, 809 Furnas Hall, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, The State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY 14260, USA. {ykim5,kesh}@eng.buffalo.edu
authors.forename: Youngseok
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Kim
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Kesavadas
mesh_terms: D001794:Blood Pressure; D003936:Diagnosis, Computer-Assisted; D006801:Humans; D007734:Kymography; D008991:Monitoring, Physiologic; D017216:Telemedicine; D014110:Touch