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Aging Measurements with Precise Observations of Synchronization Hands’ Movements

Authors:
Kyota Aoki
Hisanori Hotta

Keywords: aging; aging process; motor control function; measurement; evaluation

Abstract:
In advanced countries, populations are getting older. Cognitive disorders are an important problem in these countries. We need to measure the deterioration of brain functions with the process of aging. For synchronizing with other motion, we need to feel the other motion, to recognize the motion, to memorize the motion, and to generate the synchronizing motion. We need many kinds of brain functions to perform a cooperative movement. The authors proposed the cooperative visual synchronization task, its’ measuring method, implementation and experiments to measure and evaluate the performance of motor control functions. The new task and the measuring method enable to measure the precise movements easily and in a short period of time. The proposed method is safe, because there is no need to attach a device to a subject nor to make exaggerated motions. This paper presents a method to evaluate the aging process of motor control functions using the objective measurement of cooperative movement in both hands, its implementation, and experiments.

Pages: 49 to 55

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2016

Publication date: October 9, 2016

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-4553

ISBN: 978-1-61208-511-1

Location: Venice, Italy

Dates: from October 9, 2016 to October 13, 2016