Satwikasanti, W.T1 ; Fray, M1; Clemes, S. 2 ; Jeganathan, V1; Beeby, M.3

1 Design School, Loughborough University, UK2 School of Sport, Exercise and Health Science, Loughborough University, UK3 Mayfields Life-Skills Centre, UK

ENHANCING INDIVIDUAL WELLBEING IN PHYSICAL ACTIVITY

A Running-Line Assistive Device for Independent Running

Without Vision Project (Pilot Study)

DEPENDENCESOCIAL BARRIER

PHYSICALLY ACTIVEBEING INDEPENDENT

SOCIALLY ACTIVE

TRANSITION STAGE

INDEPENDENT MOBILITY

BACKGROUND

GOOD EXPERIENCE CONTINUE IT

CHECK HANDPOSITION TO THE BODY

CHECK BODYPOSITION TO THE ENVIRONMENT

LOOK FOR OBJECT(EGOCENTRIC)

BODY BALANCE

TACTILEAUDITORYMEMORY

PERCEPTION

FEEDBACK

MOTORIC LEARNING

Visual sensory

LOOK FOR OBJECT(ALLOCENTRIC)

BODY BALANCE

FEEDBACKFEEDBACK

BODY POSITIONTO THINGS

ACTION OF MOVEMENT

NORMAL VISION VISION - LOSS

BACKGROUND

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RUNNING – LINE AS AN INDEPENDENT RUNNING ASSISTIVE DEVICE

Will they run better ?

RESEARCH QUESTION

METHOD

BLINDFOLDED

spatio-temporal running gait performance

1 2 3

Centre of Mass (COM) lateral displacement

Velocity and Step length

Emotional responses

5 pairs of runs with both hands

BLIND

The running site and measurement area

METHOD

FINAL RUNNING-LINE FEATURES IN THREE SESSIONS

METHOD

WT

B

A = HUMAN VOICE

ANALYSIS

PARTICIPANTS

BLINDFOLDED(n=8, 29.38 ± 5.24 yr)

CONGENITALLY BLIND

(n=3, 17.38 ± 5.77 yr)

Primary cues used by participants to

complete the task based on rating scaleRESULT AND DISCUSSION

BLINDFOLDED CONGENITALLY BLIND

1st session T

WT B

T B

A

A

AW

BW

BWA

2nd session

3rd session

LEVEL OF CONFIDENT OF

BEING STRAIGHT

LEVEL OF ENJOYMENT

BLINFOLDED BLIND

Session 1

Session 2Session 3

RESULT AND DISCUSSION

BLINFOLDED BLIND

Session 1

Session 2Session 3

RESULT AND DISCUSSION

0 1 2 3 4 5

SESSION 3

SESSION 2

SESSION 1

VELOCITY

CONGENTITALLY BLIND BLINFOLDED

COM Lateral displacement (Z’) of congenitally blind

COM Lateral displacement (Z’) of blindfolded

RESULT AND DISCUSSIONZ’

(C

M)

BFSes1BFSes2BFSes3

BASE LINE CBSes1CBSes2CBSes3

BASE LINE

BLINDFOLDED

(right-handed)(left-handed)

CONGENITALLY BLIND

(right-handed)(left-handed)

RESULT AND DISCUSSION

Session 1

Session 2

Session 3

The running posture

(median sagittal plane)

RESULT AND DISCUSSION

BLINDFOLDED CONGENITALLY BLIND

The running posture

(frontal plane)

RESULT AND DISCUSSION

INVERTED- PENDULUM

running surface

‘en bloc’ movement

RESULT AND DISCUSSIONStronger coupling

between head motion, hip, and

the platform periodic

oscilation

The relation of

task, product and

user characteristic

in non-vision

running

SUMMARY

TO EVALUATE THE PHYSICAL ACTIVITY LEVEL OF CHILDREN WITH VI BY GIVING ACCESS FOR RUNNING LINE REGULARLY

BIOMECHANICAL STUDY OF POSTURE PERFORMANCE AFTER THE RUNNING INTERVENTION

FUTURE WORK

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TO EVALUATE SELF-ESTEEM IMPROVEMENT OF CHILDREN WITH VI POST RUNNING-LINE INTERVENSION

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