| Summary: | 碩士 === 元智大學 === 機械工程學系 === 90 === The National Taoyuan Special School is to educate the youths of moderate/severe mental retardation and multi-handicap. In the rehabilitation room of school, there are several exercise training and assistive devices for multiply handicapped students with mental retardation in order to exercise their upper and lower limbs. Also, a qualified physical therapist is always present during training exercise. However, the devices in the rehabilitation room are mostly bought from either commercial exercise or rehabilitation devices combined with some parts of special design. Hence, they are very difficult to fit the multi-handicapped students with mental retardation due to their special requirements. Nevertheless, there are several disadvantages for students of using these devices according to school''s experience during the past few years, such as lack of training motivation, difficult to teach the standard operation, large individual variations, and lack of quantitative evaluation.
Hence, this project is to cope with National Taoyuan Special School in order to fit the special requirements for multi-handicapped youths with mental retardation using current high technology, such as microcomputer control, sensing, virtual reality. The prototype devices of this project will focus on designing a step exerciser and exercise bicycle. Except the basic requirements of these exercise training devices (such as walking, pedaling, rotating, …etc.), we still need to consider the enjoyable, sensing and biofeedback, computer control (especially for the individual control of left and right sides), and automated record and keeping system. Hopefully, the research results can not only solve the current problems in National Taoyuan Special School but also apply to other special schools, handicapped people, and elderly society in Taiwan.
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