The Mobile RehApp???: an AR-based mobile game for ankle sprain rehabilitation

Author

Garcia, Jaime Andres ; Navarro, Karla Felix

Author_Institution

mHealth Lab., iNEXT Univ. of Technol. Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia

fYear

2014

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

6

Abstract

People struggle to recover from injuries due to the lack of commitment to their rehabilitation exercises as they are often boring. Recent approaches that involve the use of interactive video games have shown positive results in exercising as users engage in physical activity while playing a game. For example Nintendo Wii and Microsoft Kinect based games have shown to be effective in the treatment of post stroke patients. Yet, there are not tools in the market that offer portable rehabilitation exercises in the form of interactive games. The work presented in this paper focuses on the development of the Mobile RehApp™, an augmented reality based application for mobile devices designed for therapeutic support that aims to assist physiotherapists and patients on ankle sprain rehabilitation.

Keywords

interactive systems; medical computing; mobile computing; patient rehabilitation; serious games (computing); AR-based mobile game; Microsoft Kinect based games; Nintendo Wii; ankle sprain rehabilitation; interactive video games; mobile RehApp; physical activity; physiotherapists; portable rehabilitation exercises; post stroke patients; rehabilitation exercises; therapeutic support; Augmented reality; Biomedical monitoring; Foot; Games; Injuries; Mobile communication; Tracking; ankle sprain rehabilitation; augmented reality; exergames; games for rehabilitation; gamification; lower limbs; mobile augmented reality; mobile games; serious games for health;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Serious Games and Applications for Health (SeGAH), 2014 IEEE 3rd International Conference on

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/SeGAH.2014.7067087

Filename

7067087