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A Vibrotactile Feedback Device for Seated Balance Assessment and Training

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iBalance-ABF: a smartphone-based audio-biofeedback balance system.

C Franco¹, A Fleury, P Y Gumery

¹FRE 3405 AGIM Laboratory, CNRS-UJF-UPMFEPHE, 38706 La Tronche, France. celine.franco@imag.fr

IEEE Transactions on Bio-Medical Engineering

|October 11, 2012

Summary

This study introduces a smartphone system using a Kalman filter and auditory biofeedback (ABF) to improve balance. Healthy individuals enhanced their medial-lateral balance using this system during bipedal standing.

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