A soft wearable exoglove for rehabilitation assistance: a novel application of knitted shape-memory alloy as a flexible actuator

Fashion and Textiles

International Journal of Interdisciplinary Research

Table 8 Task processing and required time for donning and doffing

Donning and doffing times (s, mean (SD))
Orders	Time	Donning tasks	Orders	Time	Doffing tasks
1. Putting fingers in	21.89 (7.71)^a		1. Gripping Velcro	3.49 (2.26)^a
2. Putting thumb in	21.11 (4.51)^a		2. Holding the fingers	2.28 (0.55)^a,b
3. Gripping Velcro	5.78 (1.03)^b		3. Pulling the fingers	1.87 (0.59)^b
4. Closing Velcro	10.04 (1.86)^b		4. Doffing	1.22 (0.32)^b

The alphabetical order is the same as the order of mean difference according to the Duncan test