Att göra för att förstå - konstruktion för rehabilitering
(2006)- Abstract
- Based on the results of two rehabilitation engineering design projects,
this thesis aims to present and analyze:
? What is required for genuine engineering knowledge and
expertise to come into its own in rehabilitation engineering
when the entire effort starts and ends with the person
for whom it is intended.
? How the work of an engineer not only can improve the
conditions for the actual doing, but can also contribute to
the understanding of situations and people, their capabilities,
desires and needs.
The two projects, The Minimeter and Reading with... (More) - Based on the results of two rehabilitation engineering design projects,
this thesis aims to present and analyze:
? What is required for genuine engineering knowledge and
expertise to come into its own in rehabilitation engineering
when the entire effort starts and ends with the person
for whom it is intended.
? How the work of an engineer not only can improve the
conditions for the actual doing, but can also contribute to
the understanding of situations and people, their capabilities,
desires and needs.
The two projects, The Minimeter and Reading with Hands, are both
based on and contribute not only to rehabilitation but also to the
engineering context. My thesis comprises the work of an engineer
from the earliest idea stage up to the final results that are first realized
when the implementations are used by other people and can
be assessed by them.
The Minimeter is a communication tool for people with severe
brain injuries. It enables communication, starting at the yes-no
level, for people with exceedingly limited mobility and extensive
cognitive difficulties. Standard hardware combined with specially
designed software is used to detect even minor movements and for
example to make them steer a rolling ball on a computer screen.
This yes-no interface inspires the user to act and yields continuous
feedback and control.
Reading with hands is a system for computer based recording
and automatic tracking of finger movements when reading Braille
and in tactile picture recognition. It makes it easy to analyze the
process and to draw conclusions, among them pedagogical ones
with implications for future tactile reading training for children or
adults who are blind. For the first time it is possible to automatically
follow how the fingers move over the Braille text while the
person is reading (aloud or silently). The finger movements can be
compared to sighted persons? eye movements while reading standard
print. Comparisons can also be made between the finger exploration
of a tactile face picture by a blind person and the corresponding
eye movements by a sighted person. (Less) - Abstract (Swedish)
- Popular Abstract in Swedish
Björn Breidegards avhandling handlar om det specifika ingenjörskunnandets plats i rehabiliteringsteknisk forskning, både praktiskt, metodiskt och teoretiskt. För att de berörda människorna själva skall ha en reell möjlighet att resultatstyra behövs det en lyhördhet och att man kan prova sig fram. Detta kräver i sin tur ett top-down-orienterat arbete där varje del i det tekniska systemet skapas och utvärderas utifrån den slutliga totala funktionaliteten i dess mänskliga sammanhang.
Avhandlingens båda tillämpningsområden är synnerligen olika ? just därför är det intressant att se hur en och samma metodik kunnat användas i båda fallen. Det ena området utgår från svårt hjärnskadade... (More) - Popular Abstract in Swedish
Björn Breidegards avhandling handlar om det specifika ingenjörskunnandets plats i rehabiliteringsteknisk forskning, både praktiskt, metodiskt och teoretiskt. För att de berörda människorna själva skall ha en reell möjlighet att resultatstyra behövs det en lyhördhet och att man kan prova sig fram. Detta kräver i sin tur ett top-down-orienterat arbete där varje del i det tekniska systemet skapas och utvärderas utifrån den slutliga totala funktionaliteten i dess mänskliga sammanhang.
Avhandlingens båda tillämpningsområden är synnerligen olika ? just därför är det intressant att se hur en och samma metodik kunnat användas i båda fallen. Det ena området utgår från svårt hjärnskadade människor. De har genom det tekniska konceptet Minimetern fått ett kommunikationshjälpmedel som ger dem en förstagångsmöjlighet att svara Ja eller Nej. Detta ger en drastisk förändring, både för de berörda själva och för deras omvärld. Den nyvunna möjligheten har lett till en uppmärksamhet och en iver som inte bara visat sig i ökad uthållighet utan också i klart uttalade ord, nya ljud och mer målstyrda rörelser.
Det andra området berör människor som är blinda och forskning kring deras läsning av punktskrift (Braille) och taktila bilder. Här har fokus legat dels på forskningspersonerna (blinda punktskriftsläsare), dels på samverkan med forskare inom lingvistik, punktskriftspedagogik och kognition. Genom det flervetenskapliga samarbetet inom projektet Att läsa med händerna med Björn Breidegards tekniska implementering i centrum har här skapats en möjlighet att automatiskt följa och analysera fingerrörelserna vid taktil läsning - en världsnyhet. (Less)
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- author
- Breidegard, Björn LU
- supervisor
- opponent
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- Professor Magnhagen, Bengt, Ingenjörshögskolan i Jönköping, Jönköping
- organization
- publishing date
- 2006
- type
- Thesis
- publication status
- published
- subject
- keywords
- Design methodology, Finger tracking, Engineering knowledge, Minimeter, Rehabilitation engineering, Tactile pictures, Top-down design, Care and help to handicapped, Handikappade, vård och rehabilitering, Braille, Brain injury, Brain damage, Communication tool
- pages
- 122 pages
- publisher
- Certec, Lund University
- defense location
- Stora hörsalen, Ingvar Kamprad Designcenter,Sölvegatan 26, Lund
- defense date
- 2006-12-18 10:15:00
- ISBN
- 91-628-7035-1
- 978-91-628-7035-5
- language
- Swedish
- LU publication?
- yes
- id
- 8944382f-6d90-46cf-b9e0-b8f27539ed79 (old id 547700)
- alternative location
- http://www.certec.lth.se/dok/attgora/
- date added to LUP
- 2016-04-04 11:19:01
- date last changed
- 2018-11-21 21:04:02
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