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Acting upon and acting with: from object handling and tool use in healthy and pathological populations to perspectives on assistive technology for the upper limb| title | Acting upon and acting with: from object handling and tool use in healthy and pathological populations to perspectives on assistive technology for the upper limb |
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| start_date | 2024/06/27 |
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| schedule | 13h-14h |
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| online | no |
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| location_info | salle des thèses |
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| summary | Hand-object interactions are a central component to our daily life activities. In addition to this, humans are rather particular in that they regularly appropriate tools to expand their physical capacity to effect change upon the environment. Supporting human performance in object handling thus represents an important objective in various domains including ergonomics and rehabilitation. This seminar presents a series of experimental findings spanning foundational aspects of the perceptuomotor capacities involved in object handling and tool use, as well as certain particularities which may emerge in the context of neurological disease. In particular, this work underscores the importance of an implicit sensitivity to the reciprocal mechanical constraints which exist between the object and the upper-limb according to the task objectives. The potential implications of this are further examined in relation to the development of assistive technology with specific examples provided from ongoing experimental work on the use of vibrotactile matrices and upper-limb exoskeletons. |
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| responsibles | Sarlegna |
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| submitted | published | | 2024/06/20 12:45 UTC |
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