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Devices for Assistive Technologies

Type of study Bachelor
Language of instruction English
Code 450-2097/02
Abbreviation PAT
Course title Devices for Assistive Technologies
Credits 4
Coordinating department Department of Cybernetics and Biomedical Engineering
Course coordinator prof. Ing. Martin Černý, Ph.D.

Subject syllabus

Lectures:

1-2. Design and implementation of the user interface of computers and other tools for controlling the environment to meet the specific needs of users. Ways to customize user interfaces with respect to the user's handicap. Buttons, eye tracking, EEG control (Brain-computer control), EMG control, breathing and pressure-controlled controls, implementation of aids for the visually impaired and blind.
3. Assistive technologies using ICT for mentally handicapped and combined disorders and elderly
4. Remote home care systems - technical means for realization, effective design of systems for diagnostics using biological and nonbiological signals. Motion and fall detection systems. Monitoring power consumption. energy, water, lighting.
5. eHealth and telemetry systems - therapeutic applications.
6. eHealth and Telemetry Systems - Human Behavior Monitoring - Technical, Mathematical, Statistical Tools, Applications of Artificial Intelligence Approaches.
7. Artificial intelligence, data processing and their application in assistive technologies (fuzzy approaches).
8. Robotic solutions in assistive technology applications
9. Cognitive dysfunction, description, technical and software tools for training.
10. The fitness of eHealth, telemedicine solutions and assistive technologies.
11. Systems co-operation - technical means, solutions, pitfalls.
12. Systems of Asset Technology in Providers of Institutionalized Social Care.
13 - 14. Testing of eHealth systems.


1. Design, realization, and use of different types of user interface devices for people with disabilities
2. Design, realization and use of different types of user interface of the device for people with disabilities - practical exercises in a residential laboratory.
3. Remote Home Care Systems - Biological Signal Diagnostics Devices - Practice in a residential lab.
4. Remote home care systems - Diagnostic instruments of nonbiological signals - Practical exercises in a residential lab.
5. Remote Home Care Systems - Therapeutic Devices - Practice in a residential lab
6. Remote home care systems - Analysis of the behavior of persons in the apartment 1. - technical means - practical exercises in a residential laboratory
7. Remote home care systems - Behavioral analysis of persons in the apartment 2. - Techniques - practical exercises in a residential laboratory
8. Remote home care systems - Analysis of the behavior of people in the apartment - Computational means - Practical training in a residential laboratory
9. Artificial intelligence means - technical means and application - practical exercises in a residential laboratory.
10. Cognitive function - technical and software tools for training of cognitive functions - practical exercises in a residential laboratory.
11. Fitness application - technical and software tools for fitness - practical exercises in a residential lab.
12. Intelligent household resources - technical and software resources - practical exercises in a residential laboratory.
13. Collaboration between systems - practical exercise in a residential laboratory - system tests, simulation of critical situations in a residential laboratory to verify the functionality of the installed systems
14. Verification of the practical skills of working with residential lab systems.

E-learning

Materials are available at https://lms.vsb.cz/?lang=en.
Consultation through MS Teams.

Literature

Ladan NAJAFI, Ladan and COWAN, Donna. Handbook of Electronic Assistive Technology. Academic Press:2018. ISBN 9780128124871 

LONGHI, S., Andrea MONTERIÙ a Alessandro FREDDI, ed. Human monitoring, smart health and assisted living: techniques and technologies. London: The Institution of Engineering and Technology, 2017. ISBN 978-1-78561-150-6 .

MAHEU, Marlene M., Pamela WHITTEN a Ace ALLEN. E-health, telehealth, and telemedicine: a guide to start-up and success. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, c2001. ISBN 0-7879-4420-3.

Advised literature

COOK, Albert M. a Janice Miller. POLGAR. Cook & Hussey's assistive technologies: principles and practice. 3rd ed. /. St. Louis, Mo.: Mosby/Elsevier, 2008. ISBN 978-0323039079 .

MANN, William C. Smart technology for aging, disability, and independence: the state of the science. Hoboken, N.J.: Wiley-Interscience, c2005. ISBN 978-0-471-69694-0 .

HELAL, Abdelsalam A., Mounir. MOKHTARI a Bessam. ABDULRAZAK. The engineering handbook of smart technology for aging, disability, and independence. Hoboken, N.J.: Wiley, 2008. ISBN 978-0-471-71155-1 .