Tongue operated assistive technologies.
Assistive technologies help improving the quality of life for severely disabled individuals by enabling them to pursue self-care, educational, vocational, and recreational activities. Tongue has a set of unique characteristics that makes it a suitable appendage for manipulating paralyzed individuals' environments through the use of tongue-operated assistive devices. A number of these devices have been reviewed and a new one, called Tongue Drive, has been introduced.
Ghovanloo
Maysam
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NC Bionics Lab, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at NCSU, Raleigh, NC 27695, USA. mghovan@ncsu.edu
D006233:Persons with Disabilities; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D012656:Self-Help Devices / Q000639:trends; D014059:Tongue