An Interactive Rehabilitation Framework for Assisting People with Cerebral Palsy

Daoud, Mohammad I.; Qadoummi, Talal; Abou-Tair, Dhiah el Diehn I.

doi:10.1145/2838944.2838956

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“…There are proposals for children with Cerebral Palsy as e.g. [11] but no proposals have been found for rare diseases. To the best of our knowledge, there is also no proposal for a general solution useful for a broad range of people with different disabilities, which goes beyond the possibilities of a minigame, i.e.…”

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The Blexer system – Adaptive full play therapeutic exergames with web-based supervision for people with motor dysfunctionalities

Eckert¹,

Gómez-Martinho²,

Estéban³

et al. 2018

EAI Endorsed Transactions on Game-Based Learning

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This work presents the "Blexer" (Blender Exergames) system for therapeutic exergames designed for people with physical dysfunctionalities. The users control the games with corporal movements, captured by the Kinect® sensor. Games incorporate an amplifying functionality that enhances the immersive feeling. Via the medical platform "Blexer-med", clinicians configure the games individually for each patient. On the user's PC, the middleware "Chiro" is used to transmit configuration data and results between the games and the web platform. Opposed to similar approaches found in literature, our system does not rely on pathology specific mini-games but focus on the design of generic "Full-Play" games, with a complete and compelling gaming environment. The principles of eight Core Drives defined in the Octalysis framework have been applied in the design of the first prototype game "Phiby's Adventure" presented here. It contains four generic exercises useful for daily training.

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The Blexer system – Adaptive full play therapeutic exergames with web-based supervision for people with motor dysfunctionalities

Eckert¹,

Gómez-Martinho²,

Estéban³

et al. 2018

EAI Endorsed Transactions on Game-Based Learning

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“…Nevertheless, boredom, lack of motivation, the limited available resources, and high costs are among the key barriers that prevent patients with cerebral palsy from participating in rehabilitation physical exercises as recommended [9,10]. To address the aforementioned limitations, many research groups proposed the use of computer games as a complementary tool for conventional cerebral palsy rehabilitation therapy, with particular focus on children patients [11][12][13][14][15][16]. The use of computer games in the rehabilitation process has the potential to motivate the patients and increase the frequency and duration of the exercises [9,17,18].…”

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A Game-Based Rehabilitation System for Upper-Limb Cerebral Palsy: A Feasibility Study

Daoud

Alhusseini

Ali

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Game-based rehabilitation systems provide an effective tool to engage cerebral palsy patients in physical exercises within an exciting and entertaining environment. A crucial factor to ensure the effectiveness of game-based rehabilitation systems is to assess the correctness of the movements performed by the patient during the game-playing sessions. In this study, we propose a game-based rehabilitation system for upper-limb cerebral palsy that includes three game-based exercises and a computerized assessment method. The game-based exercises aim to engage the participant in shoulder flexion, shoulder horizontal abduction/adduction, and shoulder adduction physical exercises that target the right arm. Human interaction with the game-based rehabilitation system is achieved using a Kinect sensor that tracks the skeleton joints of the participant. The computerized assessment method aims to assess the correctness of the right arm movements during each game-playing session by analyzing the tracking data acquired by the Kinect sensor. To evaluate the performance of the computerized assessment method, two groups of participants volunteered to participate in the game-based exercises. The first group included six cerebral palsy children and the second group included twenty typically developing subjects. For every participant, the computerized assessment method was employed to assess the correctness of the right arm movements in each game-playing session and these computer-based assessments were compared with matching gold standard evaluations provided by an experienced physiotherapist. The results reported in this study suggest the feasibility of employing the computerized assessment method to evaluate the correctness of the right arm movements during the game-playing sessions.

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“…the space or body position wherein movements can be accurately registered. However, this has not discouraged researchers from exploring the possibilities of implementing these devices as a means of low-cost rehabilitation [34][35][36][37][38][39][40][41][42]. What prevents these computer-vision based systems from being used in the proposed application (targeting patients who experience computer accessibility issues due to arthritis in the hand), is the fact that they have clear limitations when it comes to measuring certain muscular performances, for example grip strength, which is a vital component in physical therapy exercises for patients with a rheumatoid hand [43].…”

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“…Rehabilitation Science. Physical therapists agree that motivation is a key aspect in a successful rehabilitation process [41,44,45]. The field of psychology has defined two types of motivation: intrinsic and extrinsic [46].…”

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An Adaptive Interface Design (AID) for enhanced computer accessibility and rehabilitation

Lin

Breugelmans

Iversen

et al. 2017

International Journal of Human-Computer Studies

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This study was aimed at the development of a nonintrusive, biosensor based, Adaptive Interface Design (AID) that utilizes its users' physical abilities (rather than focusing on their disabilities), while simultaneously honoring their integrity and needs. The target users for this study were patients with arthritis in the hand. The AID comprises of eye tracking and data glove technologies, the latter of which will be used to measure the user's physical ability as it translates hand gestures into computer controls. By developing accessible computer interfaces and exploring their use for telerehabilitation purposes, we want to ultimately impact the inclusion and health outcomes of those who experience disability on a daily basis.

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An Interactive Rehabilitation Framework for Assisting People with Cerebral Palsy

Cited by 6 publications

References 10 publications

The Blexer system – Adaptive full play therapeutic exergames with web-based supervision for people with motor dysfunctionalities

The Blexer system – Adaptive full play therapeutic exergames with web-based supervision for people with motor dysfunctionalities

A Game-Based Rehabilitation System for Upper-Limb Cerebral Palsy: A Feasibility Study

An Adaptive Interface Design (AID) for enhanced computer accessibility and rehabilitation

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