TY - GEN
T1 - Buttock dummy consisting of force sensors and soft material for the validation of deep tissue injury risk
AU - Ogata, Kunihiro
AU - Kanaya, Kohei
AU - Nakayama, Tsuyoshi
AU - Umezu, Mitsuo
AU - Ono, Eiichi
N1 - Funding Information:
ACKNOWLEDGMENT This study was partially supported by JSPS KAK-ENHI Grant Number JP25282181(Development Dummy Humanoid Robot). The authors would like to thank J. Niitsuma, T. Takashima, A. Mitsumoto and the staff of hospital and training center in NRCD.
PY - 2018/2/1
Y1 - 2018/2/1
N2 - Wheelchair users, such as individuals with spinal cord injuries and the elderly, have a high risk of pressure ulcer formation due to many hours a day spent sitting. To prevent pressure ulcer formation, its risk needs to be quantified. In cases of deep tissue injury (DTI), it is difficult to predict where tissue breakdown will occur as it is initiated from the tissues under the skin. Therefore, the aim of this study is to develop a human buttock dummy with force sensors and soft material to evaluate the risk of DTI due to the surface of seat. To choose the soft material of the buttock dummy, the elasticity of the human buttock tissue was measured. The proposed buttock dummy consists of rigid simulated pelvis model and simulated soft tissue made from silicone rubber. To evaluate the developed buttock dummy, the pressure force distribution of the buttock dummy was measured and compared with the sitting human, we confirmed that the buttock dummy is similar to the features of the human buttock.
AB - Wheelchair users, such as individuals with spinal cord injuries and the elderly, have a high risk of pressure ulcer formation due to many hours a day spent sitting. To prevent pressure ulcer formation, its risk needs to be quantified. In cases of deep tissue injury (DTI), it is difficult to predict where tissue breakdown will occur as it is initiated from the tissues under the skin. Therefore, the aim of this study is to develop a human buttock dummy with force sensors and soft material to evaluate the risk of DTI due to the surface of seat. To choose the soft material of the buttock dummy, the elasticity of the human buttock tissue was measured. The proposed buttock dummy consists of rigid simulated pelvis model and simulated soft tissue made from silicone rubber. To evaluate the developed buttock dummy, the pressure force distribution of the buttock dummy was measured and compared with the sitting human, we confirmed that the buttock dummy is similar to the features of the human buttock.
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U2 - 10.1109/SII.2017.8279341
DO - 10.1109/SII.2017.8279341
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85050884803
T3 - SII 2017 - 2017 IEEE/SICE International Symposium on System Integration
SP - 924
EP - 929
BT - SII 2017 - 2017 IEEE/SICE International Symposium on System Integration
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 2017 IEEE/SICE International Symposium on System Integration, SII 2017
Y2 - 11 December 2017 through 14 December 2017
ER -