オーダーメイド箸型食事用自助器具の機能向上に関する研究

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Self-help device is one of the most reliable and useful device of welfare devices for the physically-challenged. It is used by a physically-challenged people by him/herself and helps his/her own daily activities. Self-help device is expected to help those people to realize vigorous lives for independent individuals. Nowadays, many kinds of self-help devices are commercially available. However these commercial devices are sometimes not adapted to users' remained physical functions. These people are longing for the self-help devices which are handled easily by each user's remained functions. The purpose of this study is to develop self-help devices which are handled easily by each user's remained functions and help their daily life activities. As the example of the kinds of self-help device, we develop a chopsticks-typed self-help device for eating meals based on a hemiplegic patient's requirement. In this study, we classify meals into three types; one is bite-sized food, other is noodle, the other is the food which should be cut into bite size by individual. The goal of current stage is to develop a chopsticks-typed self-help device for eating bite-sized foods and noodles. In this paper, first, we propose a custom-made chopsticks-typed self-help device for eating meals. Then, a prototype of the device is developed. Finally, experimental result shows the validity of the system by the hemiplegic patient.
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