Authors
Ali S. AlMejrad*
Department of Biomedical Technology, King Saud University, P.O. Box 10219,
Riyadh 11433, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
*Email: [email protected]
Corresponding Author
Ali S. AlMejrad
Received 13 November 2019, Accepted 12 December 2019, Available Online
26 February 2020.
DOI
https://doi.org/10.2991/jrnal.k.200221.004
Keywords
Biofeedback device; fuzzy logic; voice loudness
Abstract
Development of medical devices are expanding rapidly. This is occurring
as results of development of high tech electronics, information technology
and wireless communication technology. Integrating these technologies helps
to provide good, less cost and more effective healthcare services. In this
paper a novel intelligent medical biofeedback device is developed for accurate
monitoring of the voice loudness using fuzzy logic compared with proportional
control. This accurate biofeedback monitoring device then enhanced treatment
of people who are unable to control excessive or low loudness due to intellectual
disability or aggressive behavior causing loudness levels rejected by others.
These people with this behavior may often be unaware of their problems
and hence an intelligent biofeedback device is necessary to be used by
the patients outside the clinic for self-controlling excessive or low loudness
without the need to follow-up in speech pathology clinic for the continuous
therapeutic. The use of the intelligent wearable biofeedback device proved
to be an effective due to its enhanced features. The design considerations,
enhanced features, simulation and evaluation of the device will be presented.
Copyright
© 2020 The Authors. Published by ALife Robotics Corp. Ltd.
Open Access
This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC 4.0 license
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