TestEd Information System: Automatic Evaluation of Exoskeletons Subjective Performance and User Experience

Uncertainty still remains about the suitability of a given exoskeleton or exosuit to a specific workstation. This is currently done by complex and controlled test experiences either in simulated or real environments. Thus, benchmarking seems a proper solution to minimize this uncertainty. The European H2020 project EUROBENCH aims to create the first benchmarking framework for exoskeletons in Europe. The subproject TestEd is one of the testbeds developed under EUROBENCH, focusing on the use case of moving in narrow spaces. TestEd information system aims to automate the exoskeleton performance evaluation in both objective and subjective sense while using the testbed, providing automatic quantitative results from each test session. In this paper we focused on the subjective methods where we share our experience in digitalization of the questionnaire survey and the Borg Scale 10. This approach can improve the exoskeleton subjective evaluation time, providing a new evaluation tool in this field.