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Distinguishing Support Technologies. A General Scheme and Its Application to Exoskeletons

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Developing Support Technologies

Part of the book series: Biosystems & Biorobotics ((BIOSYSROB,volume 23))

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There is a great variety of manual activities in work and everyday life. The number and forms of various support systems reflect this variety. A classification could provide a scheme to recognize, compare, and evaluate the heterogeneous problems, approaches, and technological solutions already existing in the field. Based on previous work on a theory of support, taxonomic criteria are derived and substantiated. These criteria are used to construct a matrix in analogy to the periodic table in order to make visible the coherence as well as the differences of technical support artifacts in general and exoskeletons in particular.

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Acknowledgements

This research is part of the project “smartASSIST—Smart, AdjuStable, Soft and Intelligent Support Technologies” funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF, funding No. 16SV7114) and supervised by VDI/VDE Innovation + Technik GmbH.

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  2. Chair of Production Technology, University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria

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Weidner, R., Karafillidis, A. (2018). Distinguishing Support Technologies. A General Scheme and Its Application to Exoskeletons. In: Karafillidis, A., Weidner, R. (eds) Developing Support Technologies. Biosystems & Biorobotics, vol 23. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-01836-8_8

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