proCover: Sensory Augmentation of Prosthetic Limbs Using Smart Textile Covers
summary
A three-layer smart textile proCover sock with conductive zebra fabric and a hardware board maps location and pressure to a mobile app where users create custom regions and assign a vibration armband (or other actuators). A pilot with four amputees shows touch-location errors drop from 75% without the sock to 0% with it, pressure discrimination errors at 11.1%, and knee bend detection reaching 6/9 and 8/9 accuracy depending on fit of the knee guard, demonstrating feasibility across varied prostheses.
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chapters (22)
- 0:00Introduction
- 0:26Current prosthetic limbs
- 1:05Electronic skin
- 1:43Vision
- 1:56Prototyping
- 2:22The sock
- 3:11Laban amputation mitts
- 4:04Participants
- 5:09acceptability
- 6:53activities
- 7:10sensing maps
- 8:00personal experiences
- 8:48key takeaways
- 10:07Bend detection
- 10:31Pilot study
- 11:24Pilot study results
- 11:58Pressure discrimination task
- 13:02Bad detection task
- 13:24Results
- 13:55Future work
- 14:39Summary
- 15:08Questions
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