TY - JOUR
T1 - How the CYBATHLON Competition Has Advanced Assistive Technologies
AU - Jaeger, Lukas
AU - De Souza Baptista, Roberto
AU - Basla, Chiara
AU - Capsi-Morales, Patricia
AU - Kim, Yong Kuk
AU - Nakajima, Shuro
AU - Piazza, Cristina
AU - Sommerhalder, Michael
AU - Tonin, Luca
AU - Valle, Giacomo
AU - Riener, Robert
AU - Sigrist, Roland
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
Copyright © 2023 The Authors.
PY - 2023/5/3
Y1 - 2023/5/3
N2 - Approximately 1.1. billion people worldwide live with some form of disability, and assistive technology has the potential to increase their overall quality of life. However, the end users' perspective and needs are often not sufficiently considered during the development of this technology, leading to frustration and nonuse of existing devices. Since its first competition in 2016, CYBATHLON has aimed to drive innovation in the field of assistive technology by motivating teams to involve end users more actively in the development process and to tailor novel devices to their actual daily-life needs. Competition tasks therefore represent unsolved daily-life challenges for people with disabilities and serve the purpose of benchmarking the latest developments from research laboratories and companies from around the world. This review describes each of the competition disciplines, their contributions to assistive technology, and remaining challenges in the user-centered development of this technology.
AB - Approximately 1.1. billion people worldwide live with some form of disability, and assistive technology has the potential to increase their overall quality of life. However, the end users' perspective and needs are often not sufficiently considered during the development of this technology, leading to frustration and nonuse of existing devices. Since its first competition in 2016, CYBATHLON has aimed to drive innovation in the field of assistive technology by motivating teams to involve end users more actively in the development process and to tailor novel devices to their actual daily-life needs. Competition tasks therefore represent unsolved daily-life challenges for people with disabilities and serve the purpose of benchmarking the latest developments from research laboratories and companies from around the world. This review describes each of the competition disciplines, their contributions to assistive technology, and remaining challenges in the user-centered development of this technology.
KW - CYBATHLON
KW - assistive technology
KW - competition
KW - daily-life challenge
KW - inclusion
KW - people with disabilities
KW - user-centered design
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85159846297&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1146/annurev-control-071822-095355
DO - 10.1146/annurev-control-071822-095355
M3 - Review article
AN - SCOPUS:85159846297
SN - 2573-5144
VL - 6
SP - 447
EP - 476
JO - Annual Review of Control, Robotics, and Autonomous Systems
JF - Annual Review of Control, Robotics, and Autonomous Systems
ER -