{"id":251,"date":"2014-10-07T04:17:39","date_gmt":"2014-10-07T04:17:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovery.wisc.edu\/wearable14\/?p=251"},"modified":"2014-10-07T20:01:41","modified_gmt":"2014-10-07T20:01:41","slug":"head-mounted-accelerometric-mouse-device","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.discovery.wisc.edu\/wearable14\/2014\/10\/07\/head-mounted-accelerometric-mouse-device\/","title":{"rendered":"Head Mounted Accelerometric Mouse Device (Assignment 4)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This would be a device for those who are physically paralyzed from the neck down or\u00a0do not have motor functions in the arms and wrist. \u00a0Essentially, this would be a hat that can sense tilt of a person&#8217;s head using an accelerometer and send commands to a computer via USB to control a cursor similar to a joystick. \u00a0 To click, the user bites down on a force sensor located in the person&#8217;s mouth. \u00a0The accommodating circuitry would be sewn to a hat of the user&#8217;s choice.<\/p>\n<p>Some challenges one may encounter when pursuing this project include the accuracy of movements, calibration, and sensitivity to small head movements.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-263\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovery.wisc.edu\/wearable14\/files\/2014\/10\/Screenshots_2014-10-07-14-51-39-300x167.png\" alt=\"Screenshots_2014-10-07-14-51-39\" width=\"300\" height=\"167\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.discovery.wisc.edu\/wearable14\/files\/2014\/10\/Screenshots_2014-10-07-14-51-39-300x167.png 300w, https:\/\/blogs.discovery.wisc.edu\/wearable14\/files\/2014\/10\/Screenshots_2014-10-07-14-51-39-1024x573.png 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.discovery.wisc.edu\/wearable14\/files\/2014\/10\/Screenshots_2014-10-07-14-51-39-672x372.png 672w, https:\/\/blogs.discovery.wisc.edu\/wearable14\/files\/2014\/10\/Screenshots_2014-10-07-14-51-39-1038x576.png 1038w, https:\/\/blogs.discovery.wisc.edu\/wearable14\/files\/2014\/10\/Screenshots_2014-10-07-14-51-39.png 1199w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This would be a device for those who are physically paralyzed from the neck down or\u00a0do not have motor functions in the arms and wrist. \u00a0Essentially, this would be a hat that can sense tilt of a person&#8217;s head using an accelerometer and send commands to a computer via USB to control a cursor similar &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.discovery.wisc.edu\/wearable14\/2014\/10\/07\/head-mounted-accelerometric-mouse-device\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Head Mounted Accelerometric Mouse Device (Assignment 4)<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":101,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.discovery.wisc.edu\/wearable14\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.discovery.wisc.edu\/wearable14\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.discovery.wisc.edu\/wearable14\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.discovery.wisc.edu\/wearable14\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/101"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.discovery.wisc.edu\/wearable14\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=251"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.discovery.wisc.edu\/wearable14\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":264,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.discovery.wisc.edu\/wearable14\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251\/revisions\/264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.discovery.wisc.edu\/wearable14\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.discovery.wisc.edu\/wearable14\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.discovery.wisc.edu\/wearable14\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}