Title :
ARhT: A portable Hand therapy system
Author :
Bercht, D. ; Boisvert, T. ; Lowe, Jared ; Stearns, K. ; Ganz, Aura
Author_Institution :
Electr. & Comput. Eng. Dept., Univ. of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, USA
fDate :
Aug. 28 2012-Sept. 1 2012
Abstract :
We introduce ARhT (Automated Relearning hand Therapy), a portable hand therapy system that enables a user to perform physical therapy at the comfort of their own home. This reduces rehabilitation time, enhances the user experience, reduces cost and provides accountability to physical therapy sessions. ARhT complements traditional therapy methods by interacting with the user in real time and providing the patient user friendly instructions, feedback, and progress tracking. The therapist pre-selects the hand gestures that comprise every workout and can view session information on a patient to patient basis within a standalone web application. ARhT incorporates a data acquisition subsystem which houses EMG sensors and a custom computation and communication board. The sensor data is transmitted to an Android smartphone that determines the user performance and interacts with the user through a graphical user interface. Our results show that our system recognizes hand therapy gestures with over 95% accuracy.
Keywords :
data acquisition; electromyography; graphical user interfaces; medical computing; patient rehabilitation; patient treatment; portable instruments; smart phones; touch (physiological); ARhT; Android smartphone; Automated Relearning hand Therapy; EMG sensors; data acquisition subsystem; feedback; graphical user interface; hand gestures; hand therapy gestures; patient; physical therapy; portable hand therapy system; progress tracking; rehabilitation time; session information; standalone Web application; traditional therapy methods; user friendly instructions; Electromyography; Gesture recognition; Medical treatment; Muscles; Thumb; Wrist; Cellular Phone; Hand; Hand Injuries; Humans; Movement; Physical Therapy Modalities; Telemedicine;
Conference_Titel :
Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC), 2012 Annual International Conference of the IEEE
Conference_Location :
San Diego, CA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-4119-8
Electronic_ISBN :
1557-170X
DOI :
10.1109/EMBC.2012.6345920