2. For whom and who can use it?\n<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\nThe app is designed for clinicians who have completed the certificate on the use of the ABLE\nExoskeleton. The certificate is obtained after completing the training program provided by\nABLE Human Motion and verifies that users are qualified to understand the system and\nproperly operate the exoskeleton in different situations.\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Thus, obtaining this certificate authorizes the use of the exoskeleton and provides clinical\nprofessionals with login ABLE Care credentials so they can carry out their rehabilitation\nsessions.\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n
3. What data is collected and how does it help in rehabilitation?\n<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\nThe application stores patient data relevant to rehabilitation sessions, allowing the therapist\nto optimize the efficiency of these sessions. The data is entered by the therapist himself and\nincludes information about the injury and the exoskeleton measures to adjust it to each\npatient in a personalized way according to their body dimensions. In this way, after the first\ntraining session, the exoskeleton\u2019s adjustment procedure to the user’s body can be carried\nout in a much more agile way.\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n
ABLE Care also allows the therapist to adjust the operating parameters of the exoskeleton, allowing rehabilitation therapy to be tailored to each patient\u2019s needs. The application automatically saves the selected parameters in the patient’s profile, so the therapist does not have to adjust them again in the next rehabilitation session. These parameters can be adjusted at any time, since the patient’s needs may change as they progress through the rehabilitation program.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
<\/p>\n\n\n\n
<\/p>\n\n\n\n
On the other hand, the metrics of the exoskeleton are displayed on the screen during the\nsession, such as: the distance traveled, the length of each step, and data about the\nsymmetry of gait. These metrics are also recorded as part of the session data to allow the\ntherapist to track the patient’s progress through quantifiable and objective metrics.\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Finally, the application also collects data on the operation of the exoskeleton to allow the\ncontinuous improvement of our product, while aiming for a seamless interaction between the\nuser and the system.\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n
4. What new features do you plan to add?\n<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\nABLE Care\u2019s goal is to offer various tools to clinicians for preparing and reviewing sessions\nwith their patients.\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n
ABLE Care, in the same way as the exoskeleton, has been developed through co-creation\nwith clinical professionals and patients that have been involved since the beginning of the\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n
project. In this sense, we have carried out several design iterations with the aim of\nincorporating feedback from users and optimizing the interaction with the exoskeleton, which\nhas been changing to better adapt to the user needs.\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Our next development goal is to work on improving the design of the sections of ABLE Care\nthat are specifically used during the rehabilitation session. We want to provide a user\nexperience that is easy to understand and operate, optimizing the app-exoskeleton\nintegration so users feel like they are working with a single device.\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In addition to working on the user interface, we are also putting a lot of emphasis at a\nfunctional level, to offer users a secure and robust system that is capable of meeting the\nmost demanding requirements.\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n
As a future challenge, we plan to add functionalities to ABLE Care that help clinicians to motivate patients during the rehabilitation program. We want to study the possibility of applying gamification techniques, and propose specific activities that are technologically more immersive and adapted to the patient’s progress. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
<\/p>\n\n\n\n
<\/p>\n\n\n\n
5. With what technologies has ABLE Care been developed?\n<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\nFrom the beginning, we wanted to design an interface to interact with the exoskeleton that\nwas easy to use, while providing the information that therapists need. For this reason, apart\nfrom a good design, providing a familiar device such as a smartphone, which most people\nuse on a daily basis was an essential.\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n
We focus on the development of an Android smartphone application, but without closing the\ndoors to other devices. This is why we chose Flutter for its development.\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Flutter is a framework that allows you to build applications for various operating systems,\nincluding Android and iOS, with a single code base and its programming language, Dart.\nThese tools allow us to focus on our most important goals for the end-user and reduce\niterations during development compared to other current technologies.\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n
As we have mentioned, ABLE Care serves as a guide and interface between two other\nimportant components in our system, the cloud storage system and the ABLE Exoskeleton.\nMobile devices offer us the necessary technology for this communication between\ncomponents with internet access and Bluetooth.\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Bluetooth technology has been used for many years, which makes it a reliable and fast\nsolution. Apart from offering good data transmission, one of the most interesting aspects is\nthat it provides flexibility of movement and a wireless environment for the user, which\nfacilitates interaction with the patient at all times.\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Finally, the cloud provides an electronic solution (paperless) where the users of our application have access to the data they need at any time and place, through the Internet in a secure way. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
<\/p>\n\n\n\n
<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
1. What is ABLE Care? (what devices does it work on) ABLE Care is a software application for smartphones that allows clinicians to control, adjust parameters and monitor ABLE Exoskeleton gait metrics in real-time during rehabilitation sessions. In addition, ABLE Care serves as an intermediate platform to save the data collected during rehabilitation in the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":37648,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-product"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ablehumanmotion.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38028","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ablehumanmotion.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ablehumanmotion.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ablehumanmotion.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ablehumanmotion.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38028"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ablehumanmotion.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38028\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39796,"href":"https:\/\/www.ablehumanmotion.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38028\/revisions\/39796"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ablehumanmotion.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ablehumanmotion.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ablehumanmotion.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ablehumanmotion.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.ablehumanmotion.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/1-1-e1644652966226-1024x887.png\")
<\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.ablehumanmotion.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/6-1024x1024.png\")
<\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.ablehumanmotion.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/2.png\")
<\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n