Serious Game and Wearable Haptic Devices for Neuro Motor Rehabilitation of Children with Cerebral Palsy

Bortone, Ilaria; Leonardis, Daniele; Solazzi, Massimiliano; Procopio, Caterina; Crecchi, Alessandra; Briscese, Lucia; André, Paolo; Bonfiglio, Luca; Frisoli, Antonio

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-46669-9_74

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“…Eleven articles (8)(9)(10)(11)(12)(13)(14)(15)(16)(17)(18) concerned feasibility studies on gaming technologies in pediatric neurorehabilitation. Most of them were based on a single session experiment.…”

Section: Feasibility Studies: Commercial Consoles and Ad-hoc Gaming Technologymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In particular, Kommalapati and Michmizos (13) developed a videogame in which the child's movements were recorded and applied to an avatar viewable in 3rd person, with the idea that visual observation of one's own movements is able to activate the "mirror neuron system, " favoring sensorimotor learning. Bortone et al (14,15) combined the use of videogames with a wearable haptic interface: significant differences were found in kinematics parameters recorded in a single session among children with cerebral palsy (CP), developmental dyspraxia, typical development, and also healthy adults. The importance of these wearable devices for differentiating between physiological and compensatory movements was demonstrated also in another study using the YouGrabber R on 33 children with brain lesions (16).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Bortone and colleagues (34) performed a cross-over randomized controlled trial using the same system that was positively tested for feasibility in their previous studies (14,15) combining an immersive virtual environment with a wearable haptic device. No statistically significant differences were found with respect to conventional therapy, and the authors interpreted this result as a non-inferiority of gaming technology vs. conventional therapy in increasing upper extremity function in children with neuromotor deficits.…”

Section: Gaming Technologies In Longitudinal Neurorehabilitation Trialsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Gaming Technology for Pediatric Neurorehabilitation: A Systematic Review

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IntroductionThe emergence of gaming technologies, such as videogames and virtual reality, provides a wide variety of possibilities in intensively and enjoyably performing rehabilitation for children with neurological disorders. Solid evidence-based results are however required to promote the use of different gaming technologies in pediatric neurorehabilitation, while simultaneously exploring new related directions concerning neuro-monitoring and rehabilitation in familiar settings.Aim of the Study and MethodsIn order to analyze the state of the art regarding the available gaming technologies for pediatric neurorehabilitation, Scopus and Pubmed Databases have been searched by following: PRISMA statements, PICOs classification, and PEDro scoring.Results43 studies have been collected and classified as follows: 11 feasibility studies; six studies proposing home-system solutions; nine studies presenting gamified robotic devices; nine longitudinal intervention trials; and eight reviews. Most of them rely on feasibility or pilot trials characterized by small sample sizes and short durations; different methodologies, outcome assessments and terminologies are involved; the explored spectrum of neurological conditions turns out to be scanty, mainly including the most common and wider debilitating groups of conditions in pediatric neurology: cerebral palsy, brain injuries and autism.ConclusionEven though it highlights reduced possibilities of drawing evidence-based conclusions due to the above outlined biases, this systematic review raises awareness among pediatricians and other health professionals about gaming technologies. Such a review also points out a definite need of rigorous studies that clearly refer to the underlying neuroscientific principles.

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Section: Feasibility Studies: Commercial Consoles and Ad-hoc Gaming Technologymentioning

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Section: Feasibility Studies: Commercial Consoles and Ad-hoc Gaming Technologymentioning

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“…Bortone et al [41][42][43][44] show a series of works related to serious games and wearable haptic devices for rehabilitation. They have several scenarios Immersive Virtual Environments (VE) with Head Mounted Display (HMD) devices and Wearable Haptic Devices for the rehabilitation of upper limb in children with Cerebral Palsy (CP) and Developmental Dyspraxia (DD).…”

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Haptic Glove TV Device for People with Visual Impairment

Villamarín

Menéndez

2021

Sensors

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Immersive video is changing the way we enjoy TV. It is no longer just about receiving sequential images with audio, but also playing with other human senses through smells, vibrations of movement, 3D audio, feeling water, wind, heat, and other emotions that can be experienced through all human senses. This work aims to validate the usefulness of an immersive and interactive solution for people with severe visual impairment by developing a haptic glove that allows receiving signals and generating vibrations in hand, informing about what happens in a scene. The study case presented here shows how the haptic device can take the information about the ball’s location in the playing field, synchronized with the video reception, and deliver it to the user in the form of vibrations during the re-transmission of a soccer match. In this way, we take visually impaired people to live a new sensory experience, allowing digital and social inclusion and accessibility to audiovisual technologies that they could not enjoy before. This work shows the methodology used for the design, implementation, and results evaluation. Usability tests were carried out with fifteen visually impaired people who used the haptic device to attend a soccer match synchronized with the glove’s vibrations.

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“…W EARABLE haptic devices have shown promising results in the fields of robotic teleoperation [1], [2], rehabilitation [3], guidance [4], [5], and gaming [6], [7]. They can be easily worn by the human user and are able to provide effective, rich, localized, and private stimuli.…”

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Design and Evaluation of a Wearable Haptic Device for Skin Stretch, Pressure, and Vibrotactile Stimuli

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Pausé

Giordano

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IEEE Robot. Autom. Lett.

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Abstract-This paper presents a wearable haptic device for the forearm and its application in robotic teleoperation. The device is able to provide skin stretch, pressure, and vibrotactile stimuli. Two servo motors, housed in a 3D printed lightweight platform, actuate an elastic fabric belt, wrapped around the arm. When the two servo motors rotate in opposite directions, the belt is tightened (or loosened), thereby compressing (or decompressing) the arm. On the other hand, when the two motors rotate in the same direction, the belt applies a shear force to the arm skin. Moreover, the belt houses four vibrotactile motors, positioned evenly around the arm at 90 degrees from each other. The device weights 220 g for 115×122×50 mm of dimensions, making it wearable and unobtrusive. We carried out a perceptual characterization of the device as well as two human-subjects teleoperation experiments in a virtual environment, employing a total of 34 subjects. In the first experiment, participants were asked to control the motion of a robotic manipulator for grasping an object; in the second experiment, participants were asked to teleoperate the motion of a quadrotor fleet along a given path. In both scenarios, the wearable haptic device provided feedback information about the status of the slave robot(s) and of the given task. Results showed the effectiveness of the proposed device. Performance on completion time, length trajectory, and perceived effectiveness when using the wearable device improved of 19.8%, 25.1%, and 149.1% than when wearing no device, respectively. Finally, all subjects but three preferred the conditions including wearable haptics.

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Serious Game and Wearable Haptic Devices for Neuro Motor Rehabilitation of Children with Cerebral Palsy

Cited by 12 publications

References 7 publications

Gaming Technology for Pediatric Neurorehabilitation: A Systematic Review

Gaming Technology for Pediatric Neurorehabilitation: A Systematic Review

Haptic Glove TV Device for People with Visual Impairment

Design and Evaluation of a Wearable Haptic Device for Skin Stretch, Pressure, and Vibrotactile Stimuli

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