This is the first of a two-part series devoted to review the current state of the art of automatic
voice condition analysis systems. The goal of this paper is to provide to the scientific …

Parkinson's disease is a progressive neurodegenerative disorder caused by dopaminergic
neuron degeneration. Parkinsonian speech impairment is one of the earliest presentations …

Aim: The research described is intended to give a description of articulation dynamics as a
correlate of the kinematic behavior of the jaw-tongue biomechanical system, encoded as a …

The Kinematic Theory of rapid movements and its associated Sigma-Lognormal model have
been extensively used in a large variety of applications. While the physical and biological …

The Kinematic Theory of rapid human movements analytically describes pen tip movements
as a sequence of elementary strokes with lognormal speed. The theory has been confirmed …

Human movement studies and analyses have been fundamental in many scientific domains,
ranging from neuroscience to education, pattern recognition to robotics, health care to …

This introductory chapter presents a survey of the stepwise developments, implementations
and applications of the Kinematic Theory of human movements made over the last 25 years …

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a degenerative neuromuscular disease, one of its
early symptoms being a progressive difficulty to speak (ALS dysarthria). To improve its …

Parkinson's disease is manifested as well in handwriting as in voice. Different procedures
have been used in previous research to estimate the dysfunctions of the illness in voice and …

Muscle force profiles depend on the sequential activation of motor units. Actual models are
all phenomenological: they are based on the Hill-type model of muscle actuation. This work …