Quality Enhancement of Finger Surface Temperature Feedback through Innovative Design Approaches

增進肌肉放鬆療程中生理回饋指溫監控品質之創新設計

10.29977/JCIIE.200705.0006

林群超(Chyun-Chau Lin)；陸定邦(Ding-Bang Luh)；張鳳麟(Fong-Lin Jang)

生理回饋 ； 肌肉放鬆 ； 跨學域設計 ； 團體治療 ； physiological feedback ； muscle relaxation ； interdisciplinary design ； group therapy

工業工程學刊

24卷3期（2007 / 05 / 01）

236 - 244

英文

由於社會競爭激烈，現代人生活緊張，常因過大的壓力，造成身體上功能的失調或病變，產生所謂「壓力徵候群」，因此，自我放鬆、紓解壓力，進行心理保健，成了現代人健康的新課題。就放鬆治療而言，臨床上廣泛地運用生理回饋進行肌肉放鬆，然而，目前於療程中所使用的生理回饋儀因其價格昂貴，操作複雜，大多僅用於院所，對於過程中強調病人需透過頻仍練習、學習以達自我調適的標的似乎無法貫徹。基於上述原因，本研究以使用創新為出發點，運用創新方法，設計出一可攜式生理回饋指環裝置，簡化操作介面，增進儀器使用上之方便性，達到強化肌肉放鬆療程中生理回饋指溫監控品質的目的。研究中除藉由創新法則及產品設計程序進行跨學域設計外，更將設計成果與傳統接觸式回饋儀加以比較，透過指溫量測值實驗及操作使用性評估，驗證創新設計於溫測功能之有效性及使用上的進步性。由於此創新設計體積輕巧、攜帶方便且具資料傳輸功能，因此衍生出生理回饋團體治療的可行模式，改進傳統臨床操作的缺失，強化以病人為中心的醫病互動關係，高度提升整體療程之效益，而個人的壓力管理及心衛保健亦可透過遠距醫療而落實。

Due to aggravating competition and living pressure in modern societies, stress syndrome worsens, and somatic dysfunctions or pathological changes arise more obviously and frequently than before. For stress management, physiological feedback or muscle relaxation with physiological feedback monitoring is useful in alleviating stress syndrome and improving mental health. Physiological feedback has been recognized as one of the main treatment modes in behavior therapy, and is widely adopted in clinical practices to date. Among all measures, temperature feedback is most employed by therapists. However, devices suitable for mobile use and daily monitoring, which are critical to training of stress management, are absent. To fulfill such need, a portable temperature feedback apparatus is developed, which is in form of a ring and an innovative design. In this paper, the product design process is addressed as an interdisciplinary approach for new product development and a case study for design integration. Signal analysis and usability test are held to verify functionalities of the ring device. As a result, a new treatment approach integrating the ring device and its concerned systems into group therapy is proposed. With the new design, stress management becomes more viable and distant treatment more feasible.

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