Dynamic seat assessment for enabled restlessness of children with learning difficulties

Stanić, Valentina (author), Žnidarič, Taja (author), Repovš, Grega (author), Geršak, Gregor (author)

Children with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) face a range of learning difficulties in the school environment, thus several strategies have been developed to enhance or optimise their performance in school. One possible way is to actively enable appropriate restlessness using dynamic seats. In this paper, an assessment of the efficacy of a dynamic seat while solving school task is presented and compared to classic chair and therapy ball. To test the effectiveness of active seat, a study that examined task solving performance while observing the intensity of movement, in-seat behaviour and psychophysiological responses (electrodermal activity, facial temperature) was designed. A total of 23 school-aged children participated in the study, 11 children with a combined type of ADHD and 12 children without disorders. Children with ADHD achieved the best results when sitting in the active seat, where the most intense movement and best in-seat behaviour was observed. At the same time, psychophysiological parameters indicate that when performing better at the task children with ADHD were not too challenged and were consequently less agitated. Results have suggested that for a better cognitive performance of children with ADHD, it is crucial to provide a comfortable and pleasant workspace that enables them the right amount of restlessness.

• Language: English
• Keywords: ADHD, electrodermal activity, motion, cognition, facial temperature, thermal imaging, inertial measurement unit, dynamic seat, therapy ball
• Work type: Article
• Typology: 1.01 - Original Scientific Article
• Organization: FE - Faculty of Electrical Engineering; FF - Faculty of Arts
• Publication status: Published
• Publication version: Version of Record
• Year: 2022
• Number of pages: 18 str.
• Numbering: Vol. 22, iss. 9, art. 3170
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-145176
• UDC: 621.317
• ISSN on article: 1424-8220
• DOI: 10.3390/s22093170
• COBISS.SI-ID: 105726723
• Publication date in RUL: 12.04.2023

Record is a part of a journal

• Title: Sensors
• Shortened title: Sensors
• Publisher: MDPI
• ISSN: 1424-8220
• COBISS.SI-ID: 10176278

Licences

• License: CC BY 4.0, Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
• Link: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Description: This is the standard Creative Commons license that gives others maximum freedom to do what they want with the work as long as they credit the author.

Secondary language

• Language: Slovenian
• Keywords: ADHD, elektrodermalna aktivnost, gibanje, kognicija, temperatura obraza, termovizija, inercialna merilna enota, dinamično središče, terapevtska žoga

Projects

• Funder: ARRS - Slovenian Research Agency
• Project number: P2-0225
• Name: Metrologija in kakovost