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PD demands a longitudinal assessment of symptoms to monitor the disease progression and manage the treatments. Existing assessment methods require patients with PD (PwPD) to visit a clinic every 3\u20136 months to perform movement assessments conducted by trained clinicians. However, periodic visits pose barriers as PwPDs have limited mobility, and healthcare cost increases. Hence, there is a strong demand for using telemedicine technologies for assessing PwPDs in remote settings. In this work, we present an in-home telemedicine kit, named iTex (intelligent Textile), which is a patient-centered design to carry out accessible tele-assessments of movement symptoms in people with PD. iTex is composed of a pair of smart textile gloves connected to a customized embedded tablet. iTex gloves are integrated with flex sensors on the fingers and inertial measurement unit (IMU) and have an onboard microcontroller unit with IoT (Internet of Things) capabilities including data storage and wireless communication. The gloves acquire the sensor data wirelessly to monitor various hand movements such as finger tapping, hand opening and closing, and other movement tasks. The gloves are connected to a customized tablet computer acting as an IoT device, configured to host a wireless access point, and host an MQTT broker and a time-series database server. The tablet also employs a patient-centered interface to guide PwPDs through the movement exam protocol. The system was deployed in four PwPDs who used iTex at home independently for a week. They performed the test independently before and after medication intake. Later, we performed data analysis of the in-home study and created a feature set. The study findings reported that the iTex gloves were capable to collect movement-related data and distinguish between pre-medication and post-medication cases in a majority of the participants. The IoT infrastructure demonstrated robust performance in home settings and offered minimum barriers for the assessment exams and the data communication with a remote server. In the post-study survey, all four participants expressed that the system was easy to use and poses a minimum barrier to performing the test independently. The present findings indicate that the iTex glove system has the potential for periodic and objective assessment of PD motor symptoms in remote settings.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/s23062877","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2023,3,7]],"date-time":"2023-03-07T02:30:45Z","timestamp":1678156245000},"page":"2877","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":24,"title":["iTex Gloves: Design and In-Home Evaluation of an E-Textile Glove System for Tele-Assessment of Parkinson\u2019s Disease"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"23","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-5083-1900","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Vignesh","family":"Ravichandran","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Electrical, Computer and Biomedical Engineering, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI 02881, USA"}]},{"given":"Shehjar","family":"Sadhu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Electrical, Computer and Biomedical Engineering, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI 02881, USA"}]},{"given":"Daniel","family":"Convey","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Electrical, Computer and Biomedical Engineering, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI 02881, USA"}]},{"given":"Sebastien","family":"Guerrier","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Electrical, Computer and Biomedical Engineering, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI 02881, USA"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0009-0001-2262-4119","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Shubham","family":"Chomal","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Electrical, Computer and Biomedical Engineering, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI 02881, USA"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-9512-6057","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Anne-Marie","family":"Dupre","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Physical Therapy, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI 02881, USA"}]},{"given":"Umer","family":"Akbar","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Neurology, Brown University, Rhode Island Hospital, Providence, RI 02903, USA"}]},{"given":"Dhaval","family":"Solanki","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Electrical, Computer and Biomedical Engineering, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI 02881, USA"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-6423-0823","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Kunal","family":"Mankodiya","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Electrical, Computer and Biomedical Engineering, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI 02881, USA"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2023,3,7]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","unstructured":"(2022, June 08). 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