PLEIA: A Reconfigurable Platform for Evaluation of HCI Acting

摘要

Today the methods used by the medical team and occupational therapist are often qualitative. PLEIA software can be employed as a tool to evaluate the pointing user's capabilities. We proposed the new indexes to improve the classical evaluations methods that use the common factors as distance, time, errors and trajectory. The index command load shows the energy that the user employs to act on his technical aid. This energy could be not to be in direct relation with the efficiency, when the user realizes a task. PLEIA's capacities can be expanded as rehabilitation platform, telerehabilitation and experimentation platform for HCI systems with different haptic devices. The experiments are based on the real evaluation cases. In two cases, we evaluated the initial capabilities. The occupational therapist conclusions were: interface difficulties, some uncontrolled movements and the technical aid needs a best adaptation. The trajectories and indicators showed clearly this behavior. Claudia has a good interest with the exercises of PLEIA. The therapist detects that she has the same behavior as she rides her electric wheelchair. We start test PLEIA with the other modules in order to evaluate children with robots and wheelchair. In these modules, all indicators are included. We will compare evaluation tools.