Intelligent decision support system

Abstract

There is a need to develop an automated assessment and training procedure for children with eye-hand coordination problem. Such system is expected to reduce the burden and the associated cost of having a trained professional present at any assessment, or training session for each child. The intelligent decision support system is based upon a fuzzy automaton. By using qualitative (fuzzified) data from the previous test the system will make a decision on the complexity of the next test to be performed. A set of assessment tests, commonly used by occupational therapists, were chosen to implement the various functions using force, inertia and viscosity effects. A test bed has been designed for these tasks that consists of a six-degree-of-freedom force-reflecting haptic interface device called PHANToM along with the GHOST SDK Software, and the Intelligent Decision Support System software. © 2007 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.