Immense Power in a Tiny Package: Wearables Based on Electrical Muscle Stimulation

Electrical muscle stimulation (EMS) devices have been used in rehabilitation medicine since the 1960s to regenerate lost motor functions, but, more recently, researchers have started to experiment with EMS to create interactive systems. EMS miniaturizes well, easily lending itself to pervasive compu...

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Published in:IEEE pervasive computing Vol. 16; no. 3; pp. 12 - 16
Main Authors: Lopes, Pedro, Baudisch, Patrick
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: New York IEEE 2017
The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subjects:
Actuators
bioinformatics
electrical muscle stimulation
Electrodes
Electronic devices
EMS
Force feedback
healthcare
human augmentation
Interactive systems
Medical services
mobile
Muscles
Patient rehabilitation
Pervasive computing
Prototypes
Rehabilitation
Researchers
Stimulation
Ubiquitous computing
virtualization
wearable computing
Wearable technology
ISSN:1536-1268, 1558-2590
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Summary:Electrical muscle stimulation (EMS) devices have been used in rehabilitation medicine since the 1960s to regenerate lost motor functions, but, more recently, researchers have started to experiment with EMS to create interactive systems. EMS miniaturizes well, easily lending itself to pervasive computing use cases--particularly those involving mobile and wearable devices. As the authors discuss, EMS provides researchers with the technical means to create devices even smaller than current wearable devices. The authors illustrate this by comparing some of their own prototypes based on EMS with traditional approaches involving mechanical actuators.
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ISSN:1536-1268
1558-2590
DOI:10.1109/MPRV.2017.2940953