TERMSOFUSE.md

Read Before Use

• There are always risks for using EMS, and using this repository without confident understandings may be DANGEROUS.
• Use only under confident understandings of EMS.
  • You can see details from other great projects here.
  • You can see an overview of related work in my article.
• The board and softwares are NOT medically approved. Always use the device following author's instruction.
• Do NOT leave the power on when it is not in use.
• Do NOT place electrodes to dangerous parts of the body. E.g., around the chest/heart.
• Take care of the output voltage.
• See LICENSE.
• Agree and follow the Liability Waiver before usage.
• It is important to use an individual power source for the 3V input (noted as Battery in the figure) due to safety reasons. I.e., do not use the Arduino 3.3V output.

Electrodes

Here are some example electrodes that are typically used in EMS work.

• Sanitas compatible Electrodes
  https://tens-machine-pads.com/sanitas-electrodes/sanitas-compatible-electrodes-mixed-set-of-12-for-universal-use

• Omron Long Life Pad
  https://store.healthcare.omron.co.jp/item/HV_LLPAD_3P.html
  https://www.amazon.com/Hv-llpad-Ereparusu-Frequency-Therapy-Omron/dp/B0002ERMBE

• Electrode Store, 1025: Small Hydrogel Electrodes w/Wires
  https://electrodestore.com/collections/disposable-emg-surface-electrodes/products/1025-emg-disposable-surface-electrodes

Do NOT use dry electrodes. There are risks for burns.

Liability Waiver

Please follow and check the following liability waiver before usage.
By using this REPOSITORY (any code, documents, hardware, data from this repository), YOU (the person using this) are agreeing to this liability waiver.

Acknowledgements

Acknowledgements for Keisuke Shiro, Akira Matsuda, Yota Takakura, Yoshio Ishiguro, Takashi Miyaki, and Jun Rekimoto for assisting the work/repo for both current and prior versions.

Publications

Michinari Kono, Yoshio Ishiguro, Takashi Miyaki, and Jun Rekimoto. 2018. Design and Study of a Multi-Channel Electrical Muscle Stimulation Toolkit for Human Augmentation. In Proceedings of the 9th Augmented Human International Conference (AH '18). ACM, New York, NY, USA, Article 11, 8 pages. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3174910.3174913

The following article includes a survey of EMS in HCI, and safety topics.

Michinari Kono, Takumi Takahashi, Hiromi Nakamura, Takashi Miyaki, and Jun Rekimoto. 2018. Design Guideline for Developing Safe Systems that Apply Electricity to the Human Body. ACM Trans. Comput.-Hum. Interact. 25, 3, Article 19 (June 2018), 36 pages. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3184743

Copyrights, License

Copyright (c) 2017 Michinari Kono
Released under the MIT license