PREVIRNEC: A cognitive telerehabilitation system based on Virtual Environments

Author

Tost, Dani ; Grau, Sergi ; Ferré, Maria ; García, Pedro ; Tormos, Jose M. ; García, Alberto ; Roig, Teresa

Author_Institution

Comput. Graphics Div., UPC, Barcelona, Spain

fYear

2009

fDate

June 29 2009-July 2 2009

Firstpage

87

Lastpage

93

Abstract

In this paper, we describe PREVIRNEC, a distributed system for cognitive telerehabilitation based on virtual environments. Our system allows personalized treatments by means of 2D and 3D exercises that can be built according to single patient´s characteristics. Patients realize their exercises remotely. Depending on their obtained results, the system readjusts automatically the levels of difficulty of the tasks, and switches from one task to the other. The paper focuses on technological issues of the system design. We analyze its structure, components, and we discuss the decisions adopted in the interaction mode design as well as in the tasks layout.

Keywords

cognitive systems; medical computing; patient rehabilitation; patient treatment; virtual reality; PREVIRNEC; cognitive telerehabilitation system; distributed system; interaction mode design; personalized treatments; system design; technological issues; virtual environments; Bones; Brain injuries; Computer graphics; Medical treatment; Muscles; Paper technology; Switches; Telematics; Virtual environment; Virtual reality; Cognitive rehabilitation; distributed systems; virtual environments;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Virtual Rehabilitation International Conference, 2009

Conference_Location

Haifa

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-4188-4

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-4189-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICVR.2009.5174211

Filename

5174211