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New approaches to modelling the disabled human operator

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Tracking tasks are increasingly used to quantify eye/limb co-ordination and control, especially in patients with neurological disorders. However, the usual measures of a patient’s performance take no account of the movement strategy employed. Two new approaches to the characterisation of tracking by disabled patients are therefore developed: one based on probabilistic modelling techniques, the other on the theory of fuzzy sets. Although applied here to hemiplegic stroke patients, the work is of potential interest for a wide range of human movement studies.

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  1. Department of Electrical & Electronic Engineering, University of Bristol, Bristol, England

    P. A. Lynn, W. R. Parker, G. A. L. Reed, J. F. Baldwin & B. W. Pilsworth

  2. Avon Stroke Research Unit, Frenchay Hospital, Bristol, England

    P. A. Lynn, W. R. Parker, G. A. L. Reed, J. F. Baldwin & B. W. Pilsworth

  3. Department of Engineering Mathematics, University of Bristol, Bristol, England

    P. A. Lynn, W. R. Parker, G. A. L. Reed, J. F. Baldwin & B. W. Pilsworth

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Lynn, P.A., Parker, W.R., Reed, G.A.L. et al. New approaches to modelling the disabled human operator. Med. Biol. Eng. Comput. 17, 344–348 (1979). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02443821

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