South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, based in Middlesbrough in the north-east of England, is one of two clinical partners who are involved in the SocketSense project, alongside Servicio Andaluz de Salud (SAS) in Seville, Spain. The Trust has been involved in many aspects of the project since the start in January 2019, but it […]
In December 2019 the first case of COVID-19 was detected in the city of Wuhan (China). A few months later, the virus had spread globally, causing a pandemic unprecedented in recent years [1]. It is well known that chronic patients (including amputees, the main users of our Socketsense project) are at greater risk of suffering […]
The pressure sensors developed in the SocketSense project thus far are in the form of strips consisting of several sensing elements (sensels), an example is shown in Figure 1. Due to hardware limitations, the system can connect up to five sensor strips with eight sensels per strip. It is therefore important to identify which regions […]
Together with project partners, Nuromedia has progressed to perform extensive evaluation of the needs of prosthetitians and other stakeholders and iterated the user interfaces (UIs) to best reflect their needs. The goal was to design a clear and quickly comprehensible design usable for all target groups. With the user feedback collected so far, the provisional […]
SocketSense project is utilising LAE printable electronics and the very latest developments in Quantum Materials (Quantum Technology Supersensors™) to create durable, flexible, lightweight and low-cost multi-functional sensors for monitoring both pressure and friction in prosthetic sockets. QTSS™ inks are printable onto and can transform a variety of substrates into smart sensing surfaces including TPU, PET […]
New sensor systems to characterize effects the use of prosthetic sockets have on patient comfort and well-being are developed in the EU-funded project SocketSense led by the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) in Stockholm. The sensor system consists of sensor elements, in the form of strips, integrated to the inner wall of the prosthetic socket […]
Preparations for a study to investigate the influence of socket comfort on stump-socket pressure distribution and gait parameters are under way at Teesside University (UK) in collaboration with South Tees Hospital (UK). Above-knee amputees will be invited to visit the university for a series of gait experiments which will take place in the university’s 130 […]
KTH has initiated a Student Project, with Master Students from the Mechatronics Division, named “Socket Sense HK” to construct a test appliance which will serve as advantageous artificial legs for the above-knee handicapped, with the expectation of the result of the project to be released by the end of the year 2020. The proposed appliance […]
On the 12th March 2020, the first technology integration workshop of SocketSense project was held at the RISE Research Institutes of Sweden IVF, in Gothenburg, Sweden. The partners working on the sensor development, embedded electronics, and socket design met to discuss and evaluate the integration solutions.
On the 26th-27th of Feb 2020, the 2nd Project Milestone Meeting of SocketSense project took place at Institute of Biomedicine of Seville. The meeting was attended by all partners from the project consortium. Medical experts from Virgen del RocíoUniversity Hospital of Seville have also joined all scientific and technical sessions. The meeting was focused on […]