Re-defining wearable robots: a multidisciplinary approach towards a unified terminology.

ABSTRACT: Effective communication is especially important in the wearable robots (WRs) community, which encloses a great variety of devices across different application domains, e.g., healthcare, occupational, and consumer. In this paper we present a vocabulary of terms with the aim to create a common understanding of terms and concepts among the different fields of expertise relevant in the WRs community. Our goal is to develop shared documentation that could serve as a reference to facilitate the use of accepted definitions in the field. The presented vocabulary is the result of different focus group discussions among experts in the field. The resulting document was then validated by presenting it to the WR community through an online survey. The results of the survey highlight a strong agreement

SUBMITTER: Massardi S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10631060 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature