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IEC ISO 60601-1-6:2015 is the regulatory standard for Medical Device (MD) and directs to ISO IEC 62366:2015 as a technical standard. However, due to the general nature of this standard, it does not provide details about criteria to guide usability testing of MD. In this way, the manufacturer deals with the unpredictability of the user according to the subjective convenience that he deems necessary to the type and class of the device. Objectives: To present a Catalog indicating technologies that can be used to detect the ergonomic or biomechanical behavior of the user. So that the test team has support for the follow-up of the experiment and for assistance in interpreting the test results. Method: A bibliographical review on technologies used to detect human behavior, and a technical survey of the market for products capable of capturing such behavior, were carried out in 2017 to establish and create the Catalog. Results: Findings allowed to list technologies that can be used to analyze the behavior of the user, assisting the execution of usability tests (UT) of the MD, being effective to detect the behavior and generate data to support the analysis and generation of reports. Conclusion: The Catalog classified technologies that can generate information about the usability of the MD, considering the analysis of the user’s behavior. The Catalog contains the association between the technology and behavioral possibilities that can be identified, serving as support to choose the technology most appropriate to the UT.

Consumer electronics systems are being largely used for healthcare. In this context, we are developing an intelligent system for management and monitoring of hemodialysis treatment. However, this kind of system is considered critical because exposes risks to patients and users' lives. For this system, we need to assure that the patients will not to be exposed to risks. Hence, it is necessary to investigate the hazards existing in the hemodialysis system that could represent critical risks to the patient. In this work, we identify and classify the hazards of the hemodialysis system as an important step to increase patients' safety.

Made available in DSpace on 2022-04-29T12:17:05Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2014-06-01 Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq) Although the effects of cognitive tasks on postural control have been widely investigated, the influence of cognitive load on sensorimotor coupling in postural control is still being uncovered. The purpose of the present study was to investigate and compare the influence of conscious knowledge, intention, and cognitive load on the relationship between visual information and body sway in postural control in young adults. Sixteen young adults stood upright, as still as possible, inside a moving room under four experimental conditions: the participants remained still without knowing that the room was moving (dynamic condition); the participants were informed about the room’s movement (information condition) and asked to resist the room’s movement (resisted condition); the participants performed a counting task while resisting the visual influence (dual-task condition). The results showed that the influence of visual manipulation on body sway decreased when the participants were informed about the movement of the room and decreased further after they were asked to resist its movement. However, performing a dual-task led to an increase in visual influence. We conclude that intention plays a role in sensorimotor system functioning in the postural control system to alter its function if required. Nevertheless, such change demands cognitive effort, which limits attentional resources and can compromise performance in secondary tasks. Universidade Cruzeiro Sul Universidade Federal de São Carlos Universidade Estadual da Paraiba Universidade Estadual Paulista Institute of Physical Activity and Sport Sciences Universidade Cruzeiro Sul Institute of Biosciences Universidade Estadual Paulista Universidade Estadual Paulista Institute of Biosciences Universidade Estadual Paulista CNPq: 500670/2011-0 CNPq: 561206-2010-4

the usage of technologies for the treatment of patients is constantly emerging. A recent trend is the usage of games for healthcare, mainly in motor rehabilitation. The entertainment facet of the game attracts the attention of patients making them more engaged in the treatment. A difficult in the usage of commercial games is that they require full attention of the healthcare professionals, since they were not created to this purpose. To contour this kind of situation, decreasing the attention demanded by healthcare professionals, tailor-made games with monitoring capabilities have been developed. The problem with this approach is that these games falls short of entertainment, compromising their playfulness. Given this scenario, we believe that by adding monitoring capabilities to environments in which commercial games are used for health treatment is the best approach for game therapy. Therefore, it is necessary to create a mechanism that helps developers on building applications to monitoring patients' pre-determined characteristics during a gameplay. In this paper, we propose the NuSense, a sensor-based framework to support the development of applications to automatically monitoring people while they are playing electronic games as a health therapy. Index Terms—Ambient Intelligence; games for health; monitoring capabilities; framework. I. INTRODUCTION

The goal of this study was to examine the coupling between visual information and body sway with binocular and monocular vision at two distances from the front wall of a moving room. Ten participants stood as still as possible inside of a moving room facing the front wall in conditions that combined room movement with monocular/binocular vision and distance from the front wall (75 and 150 cm). Visual information effect on body sway decreased with monocular vision and with increased distance from the front wall. In addition, the combination of monocular vision with the farther distance resulted in the smallest body sway response to the driving stimulus provided by the moving room. These results suggest that binocular vision near the front wall provides visual information of a better quality than the monocular vision far from the front wall. We discuss the results with respect to two modes of visual detection of body sway: ocular and extraocular.

The purpose of the present study was to examine how children's postural control is affected by different visual cues. Sixteen children, ages 8 and 12 years, and eight adults participated in the study. Each was asked to stand upright inside a moving room, which oscillated at 0.2 Hz, while facing the frontal wall at two distances: 75 and 150 cm, under monocular and binocular vision conditions. Vision manipulation induced corresponding body sway in all participants, but vision effect was the smallest in the monocular vision condition, at the greater distance (150 cm) from the front wall. More importantly, however, the influence of visual manipulation on body sway was age-dependent, with the younger children showing less visually induced body sway than the older children and adults. This aging effect was more dramatic in the monocular vision condition. These results suggest that development of the visual system is not fully completed until the age of 12 years and that eye movement and binocular vision might play an important role in how visual cues are coupled to body sway.