Title :
An integrated low-cost system for at-home rehabilitation
Author :
Borghese, Nunzio Alberto ; Pirovano, Michele ; Mainetti, Renato ; Lanzi, Pier Luca
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. Sci., Univ. of Milano, Milan, Italy
Abstract :
We show here how integrating novel natural user interfaces, like Microsoft Kinect, with a fully adappatient´s current statustive game engine, a system that can be used for rehabilitation at home can be built. A wide variety of game scenarios, a balanced scoring system, quantitative and qualitative exercise evaluation, automatic gameplay level adaptation to patient´s current status, and audiovisual feed-back are all implemented inside the Intelligent Game Engine for Rehabilitation here introduced, and are aimed at maximizing patient´s motivation and rehabilitation effectiveness. The system is integrated into a multi-level platform that provides continuous monitoring by the hospital and it has been developed inside the framework of the EU funded Rewire project.
Keywords :
computer games; hospitals; medical computing; patient monitoring; patient rehabilitation; user interfaces; EU funded Rewire project; Microsoft Kinect; adaptive game engine; at-home rehabilitation; audiovisual feed-back; automatic gameplay level adaptation; balanced scoring system; game scenarios; hospital continuous monitoring; integrated low-cost system; intelligent game engine; multilevel platform; natural user interfaces; patient current status; patient motivation; patient rehabilitation; qualitative exercise evaluation; quantitative exercise evaluation; Avatars; Engines; Games; Hospitals; Joints; Monitoring; Robots;
Conference_Titel :
Virtual Systems and Multimedia (VSMM), 2012 18th International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Milan
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-2564-6
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4673-2563-9
DOI :
10.1109/VSMM.2012.6365975