Virtual reality system for multiple sclerosis rehabilitation using KINECT

Author

Lozano-Quilis, J.A. ; Gil-Gomez, H. ; Gil-Gomez, J.A. ; Albiol-Perez, Sergio ; Palacios, G. ; Fardoum, Habib M. ; Mashat, Abdulfattah S.

Author_Institution

Inst. de Autom. e Inf. Ind., Univ. Politec. de Valencia, Valencia, Spain

fYear

2013

fDate

5-8 May 2013

Firstpage

366

Lastpage

369

Abstract

REOVIEM is a system that use the potencial of virtual reality (VR) and natural user interfaces (NilI) to offer to patients with multiple sclerosis (MS) an intuitive and motivating way to perform several motor rehabilitation exercise. Moreover, REMOVIEM offer to the therapists a new motor rehabilitation tool that it allows control the rehabilitation process, and evaluate the progress of the patients. On the other hand, REMOVIEM is a low cost system, a feature that it facilitates its integration in the clinical rehabilitation centers.

Keywords

biomechanics; medical computing; neurophysiology; patient rehabilitation; user interfaces; virtual reality; KINECT; REMOVIEM; clinical rehabilitation centers; low cost system; motor rehabilitation exercise; multiple sclerosis rehabilitation; natural user interfaces; rehabilitation process control; virtual reality system; Welding; Motor Rehabilitation; Multiple Sclerosis; Natural Interfaces; Virtual Reality;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare (PervasiveHealth), 2013 7th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Venice

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-0296-5

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-936968-80-0

Type

conf

Filename

6563968