F-2-14-08
THE FLEXIBLE PC-BASED ENVIRONMENTAL CONTROL UNIT
Kazuhito Tsujiuchi (Saitama Prefecture General Rehabilitation Center, Saitama, Japan), Sigeru Sonoda (Tokyo Metropolitan Rehabilitation Hospital, Tokyo, Japan)
Our purpose was to develop an environmental control unit which multiply handicapped people can use easily. We inspected some Japanese ones and found that it was not easy for people with visual disturbance to see. We put emphasis on developing a simple menu system on personal computer (PC).
This system consists of PC that has environmental control software, an interface that connects to infrared controllers for appliances and input devices. It controls up to four 100 volt AC appliances, four DC ones and many infrared electronic devices. This special control software is very flexible. It presents tile user with "windows" on the computer screen, each displaying picture symbols for electrical devices and the user can select the desired device by clicking with the mouse, using an adapted input device for the computer or scanning with a dual or single switch under the voice guidance. It is easy to create new windows and symbols, to make various combinations of symbols in windows and to modify a design of a symbol. The user can switch windows by selecting picture symbols and arrange menus in layers.
F-2-14-09
Usefulness of Ego gram Test Assess Quality of Physiotherapeutic Students
Ikuko Tsukashima(PT) Masami Morozumi(PT) Akira Fuzii(PT) Ryuitiroh Izawa(PT) Masamitchi Fuzisaki(MD) Sachiko Kawaguchi(MD)
TO elucidate relationship between physiotherapeutic students' quality and sociality, longitudinal ego gram tests were performed with 30 students (15 male and 15 females, mean age was 21±2.5 years, ranged 19-29 years). Ego gram test was carried out twice, on April 1995 and on January 1997. We focused two sets of values in ego gram test; the critical parent (CP) and the free child (FC) values representing ego formed through strict parental breeding and through no parental influence, respectively. Then the FC-CP values subtracting the CP values from the FC were compared by each student between the first and the second test. Thirty students were divided into two groups based on a change of the FC- CP values; a decrease (Group I, n=14) or an increase (Group II, n=16). The number of tardy, absence, and complaints from the lectures were picked up to evaluate student's quality. One point was scored if the number of tardy were above a class average every half a year over about two years (0-4 points). The same process was done about the number of absence. Each points were summed (0-8 points) as the idle points. AS for the number of complaints from the lecturers, we added one point per complaint at the promotion conference held every half a year (0-4 points). Every point were summed as the quality points, therefore ranging 0-12. The fraction above 1 of the idle points were 50% in Group I and 81% in Group II .The fraction above 2 of the quality points were 50% in Group I and 88% in Group II (p< 0.05, chi-square test). As a result, many problems about quality were revealed in Group (showing a increase of the FC-CP values). The FC-CP values were considered to represent sociality and deterioration of these values were consistent with students' low-quality. Ego gram could be useful to prevent us from developing low-quality physiotherapists in rehabilitation medicine, predicting sociality in their school days.
