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The Augmented Movement Platform For Embodied Learning (AMPEL): development and reliability

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Balance and gait impairments are highly prevalent in the neurological population. Although current rehabilitation strategies focus on motor learning principles, it is of interest to expand into embodied sensori-motor learning; that is learning through a continuous interaction between cognitive and motor systems, within an enriched sensory environment. Current developments in engineering allow for the development of enriched sensory environments through interactive feedback. The Augmented Movement Platform for Embodied Learning (AMPEL) was developed, both in terms of hardware and software by an inter-disciplinary circular participatory design strategy. The developed device was then tested for in-between session reliability for the outcome measures inter-step interval and total onset time. Ten healthy participants walked in four experimental paths on the device in two different sessions, and between session correlations were calculated. AMPEL was developed both in terms of software and hardware, with three Plug-In systems (auditory, visual, auditory + visual). The auditory Plug-In allows for flexible application of augmented feedback. The in-between session reliability of the outcomes measured by the system were between high and very high on all 4 walked paths, tested on ten healthy participants [mean age 41.8 ± 18.5; BMI 24.8 ± 6.1]. AMPEL shows full functionality, and has shown between session reliability for the measures of inter-step-intervals and total-onset-time in healthy controls during walking on different paths.

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Acknowledgments

We acknowledge support by the UGent Expertise Center for Nano- and Microfabrication – NaMiFab.

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We acknowledge the Methusalem project (awarded by the Flemish Government) at UGent and the UHasselt BOF grant for funding this study.

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  1. IPEM Institute of Psychoacoustics and Electronic Music, Faculty of Arts and Philosophy, Ghent University, 9000, Ghent, Belgium

    Lousin Moumdjian, Joren Six, Ivan Schepers, Micheline Lesaffre & Marc Leman

  2. UMSC Hasselt, Pelt, Belgium

    Lousin Moumdjian & Peter Feys

  3. REVAL Rehabilitation Research Center, Faculty of Rehabilitation Sciences, Hasselt University, 3500, Hasselt, Belgium

    Lousin Moumdjian & Peter Feys

  4. NaMiFab - UGent Expertise Center for Nano- and Microfabrication, Department of Information Technology and Department of Electronics and Information Systems, Ghent University, Technologiepark-Zwijnaarde 126, 9052, Ghent, Belgium

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The four experimental conditions. Illustration of the paths walked on AMPEL- left and right indicates the starting foot. a The straight left, b straight right path, c the diagonal left, d diagonal right

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Moumdjian, L., Vervust, T., Six, J. et al. The Augmented Movement Platform For Embodied Learning (AMPEL): development and reliability. J Multimodal User Interfaces 15, 77–83 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12193-020-00354-8

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