Video capture virtual reality: A decade of rehabilitation assessment and intervention

Abstract

Background: Video capture virtual reality (VR) systems display the users on a TV or projected screen where they see themselves within a virtual environment (VE) and interact with the virtual stimuli by naturalistic movements without any encumbrance. This is one of the greatest assets of video capture VR systems, making it ideally suited as a tool for rehabilitation. Objective: To provide an overview of how single camera-based markerless video-capture technology has developed and been applied to rehabilitation over the past decade. Method: Short summaries are provided of the numerous studies that use video capture VR for motor and cognitive rehabilitation of clinical populations including stroke, spinal cord injury, traumatic brain injury, cerebral palsy and intellectual disabilities. Results and conclusions: VEs running on video capture VR systems have been shown to be feasible for clinical use for a wide variety of patient populations. The summarised papers include reports of case studies, group comparisons and review articles. Most of the studies using videocapture VR systems were aimed at improving motor aspects of individuals with neurologic conditions but some also address cognitive impairment and motivation in populations with developmental disorders. The majority of the VEs are gaming environments (involving competitive games such as virtual soccer) but functional environments (e.g. street crossing, supermarket shopping) have also been developed. The VEs have been found to be sensitive to differences in motor and cognitive ability and appear to provide an enjoyable and motivating setting for implementing a wide variety of therapeutic goals.

What is the level of evidence for the use of currently available technologies in facilitating the self-management of difficulties associated with ADHD in children and young people? A systematic review

“…The studies identified were appraised using the levels of evidence [48] to locate the best available evidence that involves the application of systematic, robust, transparent and explicit methodology [49]. The grading system (see Table 3) was created to highlight that varying study designs and methodologies are at risk of bias in their results.…”

Development of rehabilitation system (RehabGame) through Monte-Carlo tree search algorithm using kinect and Myo sensor interface

“…MCTS has been applied successfully to many board games including; the Asian board game GO [2], [26], General Game Playing where the rules of games used to evaluate techniques are not known in advance [7], [9], [10], imperfect information games where each player independently chooses an action and these actions are applied at the same time, such as Scrabble and Bridge [3], the arcade Ms Pac-Man game with repeated random sampling to obtain results [13], [17], [20], [23], [32]. mds August 26, 2015 In the last few years, several integrated solutions have been proposed for computer-based rehabilitation techniques [4], [8], [12], [14], [18], [19], [21], [22], [25], [28], [33], [34], [36], [37], [38]. Although there has been a lot of research in the area of virtual reality there are still outstanding challenges to apply MCTS technique to rehabilitation games in order to adapt it to patient s status.…”

A Scoping Review of Exergaming for Adults with Systemic Disabling Conditions

“…Since the 1980s, there have been a growing number of research studies in the rehabilitation literature on developing and evaluating virtual reality systems among adults with systemic disabling conditions [11,12]. Many rehabilitation studies have focused on examining the benefits of virtual reality systems that use video-capture technology and create fully immersive environments with large screen projections, head-mounted displays or concave projection screens [13].…”

“…We focused our review to exergames played on a television or computer screen with exercise equipment (e.g., bike or treadmill) or commercially available home video game consoles (i.e., Nintendo Wii or Sony PlayStation Eye Toy). See the following cited review articles for details on the potential benefits of virtual reality systems that use more expensive technologies (e.g., large screen projections, cave systems, head-mounted displays, robotics or electromyography) [7,8,11,12].…”