Tele-Rehabilitation using the Rutgers Master II glove following Carpal Tunnel Release surgery

2011 16th International Conference on Computer Games (CGAMES)

2011

Therapeutic games can be considered as a promising rehabilitation tool since they provide personalized rehabilitation sessions in which training intensity and challenges can be adapted to the patient's ability, motivation and performance. In this paper, we discuss post-stroke therapeutic game design challenges and requirements that open-up a variety of adaptation issues. Our objective is to present a generic difficulty adaptation technique for a family of post-stroke upper-limb rehabilitation games. The proposed technique aims to increase rehabilitation volume by maintaining patients' motivation and engagement.

Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

Therapeutic games' difficulty adaptation: An approach based on player's ability and motivation

2011 16th International Conference on Computer Games (CGAMES)

2011

“…Heuser et al [12] suggest five therapeutic game exercises with the same graphical interfaces. Each exercise involves some difficulty levels following the main patients' motor recovery steps in therapy.…”

Section: Difficulty Adaptation In Therapeutic Gamesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Motivation based difficulty adaptation for therapeutic games

2011 IEEE 1st International Conference on Serious Games and Applications for Health (SeGAH)

Loreto

et al. 2011

A post-stroke rehabilitation based on therapeutic serious game can be a useful approach to increase rehabilitation volume by maintaining patients' motivation and engagement. In particular, a dynamic difficulty adaptation technique of therapeutic tasks allows increasing patients' motivation by adapting the game difficulty to the patients' capabilities. This paper presents a difficulty adaptation technique dedicated to a family of therapeutic games for upper limb rehabilitation. The proposed technique provides a generic real-time adaptation module to dynamically adjust the game difficulty to each patient according to his profile and observed performances. A pre-pilot experiment is presented to demonstrate how this technique has been implemented and could be integrated to post-stroke therapeutic games.

“…In the therapy context, most of therapeutic games are based on the static determination of tasks difficulty by therapists [2]. For example, Heuser et al [17] suggest five therapeutic games exercises. Each exercise involves a set of difficulty levels following patient's recuperation.…”

Section: B Therapeutic Serious Game and Difficulty Adjustmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

Mixed reality serious games for post-stroke rehabilitation

Ines

Proceedings of the 5th International ICST Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare

2011

In this paper we propose a mixed reality system (MRS) and an adaptation module for rehabilitation of the upper limb after stroke through serious games. Aim of the system is to increase intensity and number of training session using the fun factor as driver. Although our system is targeting post stroke patient it is necessary to validate and test our approach with valid users at the first stage to provide patients with stable system to use. These studies and their results are described in this paper.