The Rehabilitation Gaming System: a Virtual Reality Based System for the Evaluation and Rehabilitation of Motor Deficits

Author

Cameirão, Mónica S. ; Badia, Sergi Bermuidezi ; Zimmerli, Lukas ; Oller, Esther Duarte ; Verschure, Paul F.M.J.

Author_Institution

Laboratory of Synthetic Perceptive Emotive and cognitive Systems (SPECS), Institut Universitari de l´´Audiovisual (IUA), Universitat Pompeu Fabra, C\\Ocata 1, Planta 3, 08003 Barcelona, Spain, phone: 0034 935421368; fax: 0034 935422202; e-mail: monica.cam

fYear

2007

fDate

27-29 Sept. 2007

Firstpage

29

Lastpage

33

Abstract

We have developed a virtual reality based system for the rehabilitation of patients suffering from different neuropathologies such as those brought on by stroke and traumatic brain injury. Our Rehabilitation Gaming System, or RGS, uses a vision based motion capture system with gaming technologies and functionally combines active evaluation, with continuous monitoring and intensive training regimes tuned to the needs of individual patients. Here we assess the validity of the evaluation phase of the RGS by comparing the physical and virtual versions of a diagnostic reaching test with 6 stroke patients. Subsequently we illustrate the ability of our system to provide high resolution information at the level of individual performance.

Keywords

Brain injuries; Extremities; Haptic interfaces; Humans; Lesions; Medical treatment; Nervous system; Patient monitoring; Testing; Virtual reality;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Virtual Rehabilitation, 2007

Conference_Location

Venice, Italy

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-1204-4

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-1204-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICVR.2007.4362125

Filename

4362125