Abstract—Measurement of reaction time and anticipation skill estimation are used widely in therapeutic exercises or sport programs. There is a need for an easy-to-use system that can run reaction time tasks and anticipation skills with no special experiments in rehabilitation clinics. For responses to these needs we designed and constructed a simple, portable and inexpensive system based on software engineering methods. The purpose of the present paper is to investigate the feasibility of using this custom design computer based system for reaction time test and anticipation skill estimation.

Index Terms—Rehabilitation engineering, physical therapy, reaction time test, speed anticipation.

Azadeh Shadmehr is with the Physical Therapy, Associate Professor of Department of Physical Therapy, School of Rehabilitation, Tehran University of Medical Sciences (TUMS), Tehran, Iran (e-mail: shadmehr@tums.ac.ir).
Shervin Amiri is with the Scientific member of Electrical Engineering Department of Iranian Research Organization for Science and Technology (IROST), Tehran, Iran (e-mail: amiri@irost.org).

Cite: Azadeh Shadmehr and Shervin Amiri, "Design and Construction of a Computerized Based System for Reaction Time Test and Anticipation Skill Estimation," International Journal of Bioscience, Biochemistry and Bioinformatics vol. 2, no. 6, pp.  429-432, 2012.