Providing physical and social autonomy to disabled people through BCI,telemonitoring and home support

Abstract

Abstract

Solutions and systems that provide physical and social autonomy to people with severe disabilities must be investigated and designed. In fact, the long term rehabilitation goal for people with disabilites of neurologic origin (caused, for example, by acquired brain injury) is resettlement back in the community away after a discharge. In this paper, we present a solution that relies on BCI, telemonitoring and home support to provide physical and social autonomy to people with acquired brain injury that go back to home after a discharge. We also rely on context-aware techniques to provide a personalized and adaptable solution according to users’ needs and preferences. The system is part of the BackHome project and is currently running at end-users facilities in Belfast and Würzburg. Here, we present and discuss experiments performed with healthy users as well as preliminary results with end-users.