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Assessment of the Usability of an Innovative Assistive Swimsuit

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Computers Helping People with Special Needs (ICCHP-AAATE 2022)

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Abstract

Wearable systems, or even more simply wearables, are a wide variety of body worn objects and accessories that in the last decade have been introduced in our availability. The aim of this paper is to propose a structured methodology to conduct usability analysis with wearables and describe it through its application on a wearable system for water rehabilitation. AQTIVO is a new corset co-design with users (patients and caregivers) and to validate its usability we carried out a test with 30 subjects and 10 caregivers in 2 water rehabilitation sites. The AQTIVO usability was very satisfactory. Young users. Indeed, it allowed new rehabilitation exercises (flotation, prone transfer). In adults, AQTIVO system improved the buoyancy task provided more support in dynamic tasks. Support from the caregiver was also reduced by using the brace in all subjects. Also the aesthetics was positively evaluated.

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Acknowledgements

This project was supported by a grant from Fondazione CARIPLO under the call Cariplo CREW (Codesign for REhabilitation and Wellbeing), that is an action of the Cariplo Foundation aimed at researching and implementing innovative technological solutions for the qualification, rehabilitation and well-being of people with temporary, permanent or advancing age-related frailty or disabilities.

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  1. Laboratory TeDH - Technology and Design for Healthcare, Department of Design, and Sensibilab, Polo Territoriale di Lecco, Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy

    Giuseppe Andreoni

  2. IBFM – CN, Segrate, Milan, Italy

    Giuseppe Andreoni

  3. Casa di Cura Domus Salutis, Brescia, Italy

    Luciano Bissolotti

  4. Istituto Villa Santa Maria, Como, Tavernerio, Italy

    Eleonora Castagna & Giulio Valagussa

  5. AUS Niguarda Onlus, Milan, Italy

    Francesco Mondini

  6. Dipartimento di Scienza dei Materiali, Università degli Studi Milano-Bicocca, Milan, Italy

    Alberto Paleari

  7. CNR-ICMATE, National Research Council of Italy, Lecco, Italy

    Simone Pittaccio

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  1. Johannes Kepler University, Linz, Austria

    Klaus Miesenberger

  2. National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece

    Georgios Kouroupetroglou

  3. European University Cyprus, Engomi, Cyprus

    Katerina Mavrou

  4. University of California at Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, USA

    Roberto Manduchi

  5. Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy

    Mario Covarrubias Rodriguez

  6. Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic

    Petr Penáz

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Andreoni, G. et al. (2022). Assessment of the Usability of an Innovative Assistive Swimsuit. In: Miesenberger, K., Kouroupetroglou, G., Mavrou, K., Manduchi, R., Covarrubias Rodriguez, M., Penáz, P. (eds) Computers Helping People with Special Needs. ICCHP-AAATE 2022. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 13342. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-08645-8_55

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