Masashi Sekine

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Masashi Sekine is a researcher whose work spans rehabilitation robotics, prosthetics, and assistive healthcare technology — fields where engineering innovation meets urgent human need. His most influential contributions center on sensory feedback systems for prosthetic hands, particularly pioneering the use of auditory displays to reduce the cognitive burden on upper limb amputees who must otherwise rely heavily on visual feedback. His 2012 study on psycho-physiological assessment of auditory-based prosthetic feedback has garnered 87 citations, establishing him as a key voice in non-visual sensory substitution strategies. Beyond sensory feedback, Sekine has advanced soft robotics for rehabilitation, developing pneumatic actuator-driven systems for thumb and shoulder rehabilitation that address the complex biomechanical demands of daily living — work that has attracted meaningful scholarly attention with 35 citations for his soft robotic thumb system. His research portfolio also extends into autonomous mobile robotics for at-home biomonitoring of elderly individuals, reflecting a broader commitment to technology-enabled healthcare independence. With contributions ranging from lightweight shoulder prostheses with hybrid actuators to activity recognition algorithms for home robots, Sekine's career represents a consistent and human-centered approach to assistive technology design, bridging clinical need with engineering ingenuity.

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Top Papers

1. 1
   Psycho-physiological assessment of a prosthetic hand sensory feedback system based on an auditory display: a preliminary study

   87 citations · 2012
2. 2
   Enhanced Kapandji test evaluation of a soft robotic thumb rehabilitation device by developing a fiber-reinforced elastomer-actuator based 5-digit assist system

   35 citations · 2018
3. 3
   Auditory display as a prosthetic hand sensory feedback for reaching and grasping tasks

   19 citations · 2012
4. 4
   Development of a Robotic Thumb Rehabilitation System Using a Soft Pneumatic Actuator and a Pneumatic Artificial Muscles-Based Parallel Link Mechanism

   9 citations · 2017
5. 5
   To Design a Small Pneumatic Actuator Driven Parallel Link Mechanism for Shoulder Prostheses for Daily Living Use

   7 citations · 2011
6. 6
   Evaluation of a Home Biomonitoring Autonomous Mobile Robot

   7 citations · 2016
7. 7
   Top-down Spatial Attention for Visual Search: Novelty Detection-Tracking Using Spatial Memory with a Mobile Robot

   5 citations · 2014
8. 8
   Active Sensing for Human Activity Recognition by a Home Bio-monitoring Robot in a Home Living Environment

   5 citations · 2017
9. 9
   Development of Robust Behaviour Recognition for an at-Home Biomonitoring Robot with Assistance of Subject Localization and Enhanced Visual Tracking

   4 citations · 2014
10. 10
    Designing and testing lightweight shoulder prostheses with hybrid actuators for movements involved in typical activities of daily living and impact absorption

    4 citations · 2015

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