title: Assisting people with disabilities in actively performing designated occupational activities with battery-free wireless mice to control environmental stimulation.
abstract: The latest researches use software technology (OLDP, object location detection programs) to turn a commercial high-technology product, i.e. a battery-free wireless mouse, into a high performance/precise object location detector to detect whether or not an object has been placed in the designated location. The preferred environmental stimulation is also incorporated to assist those patients in need of occupational activities in performing simple occupational activities to acquire their preferred environmental stimulation. The result of the experiment shows that both participants have been able to control their preferred environmental stimulation by actively performing occupational activities. This study is going to extend the aforementioned researches by using battery-free wireless mice to assist patients in performing more complicated occupational activities. The ABAB design has been adopted for experiments, and the result shows that during intervention phrases, the occupational activities of both participants are significantly improved.
authors.affiliation: Department of Special Education, National Dong Hwa University, Hualien 970, Taiwan, ROC. schee@mail.ndhu.edu.tw
authors.forename: Ching-Hsiang
authors.initials: CH
authors.lastname: Shih
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D016287:Computer Peripherals; D003198:Computer Simulation; D006233:Persons with Disabilities / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D004777:Environment; D004867:Equipment Design; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009788:Occupational Therapy / Q000295:instrumentation*; D011846:Radio Waves; D000071939:Stroke Rehabilitation; D013813:Therapy, Computer-Assisted / Q000295:instrumentation; D059015:Wireless Technology