ABSTRACT
RE comprises all techniques and devices that deal with improving, assisting, or mimicking the various day-to-day functions carried out by our bodies, thereby improving the overall quality of life. Various topics include, but are not limited to, assistive devices and other aids for those with disabilities, sensory augmentation and substitution systems, functional electrical stimulation (FES; for motor control and sensory-neural prostheses), orthotics and prosthetics, myoelectric devices and techniques, transducers (including electrodes), signal processing, hardware, software, robotics, systems approaches, technology assessment, postural stability, wheelchair seating systems, gait analysis, biomechanics, biomaterials, control systems (both biological and external), ergonomics, human performance, and functional assessment.
