Avatar-Facilitated Therapy and Virtual Reality: Next-Generation of Functional Rehabilitation Methods

Benrachou, Djamel Eddine; Masmoudi, Mostefa; Djekoune, Oualid; Zenati, Nadia; Ousmer, Mehdi

doi:10.1109/ccssp49278.2020.9151528

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“…The idea of introducing gamification into the therapeutic protocol of upper limbs rehabilitation was created to motivate patients during the rehabilitation programs. There are numerous studies looking for ways to develop serious games for rehabilitation, including what our team did, aiming at creating serious games in a virtual reality environment [39]. Several serious games for rehabilitation projects have appeared and showed a wide general interest in improving and sustaining virtual reality technology [8,40,41].…”

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“…The exer-game focused on pinching gestures, supporting three tasks: (a) open-hand; (b) pinch position and (c) open-hand. The researchers in [39] developed fruit-based games and a runner game for rehabilitation of post-stroke upper limbs using Kinect with Oculus Rift HMD. The researchers in [23] were interested in cognitive rehabilitation and used only Oculus Go HMD.…”

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“…In order to be able to intercept context data, the capture layer presents a collection of sensors. One study [39] proposes a classification of these sensors to recognize human emotions automatically: (i) electrical sensors such as EEG, ECG and EMG signals and (ii) non-electrical sensors like Kinent, Web Camera and Occulus. Basing on this classification in our architecture, each type of sensor must be attached to a software component allowing access to the intercepted data.…”

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VR-PEER: A Personalized Exer-Game Platform Based on Emotion Recognition

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Motor rehabilitation exercises require recurrent repetitions to enhance patients’ gestures. However, these repetitive gestures usually decrease the patients’ motivation and stress them. Virtual Reality (VR) exer-games (serious games in general) could be an alternative solution to address the problem. This innovative technology encourages patients to train different gestures with less effort since they are totally immersed in an easy to play exer-game. Despite this evolution, patients, with available exer-games, still suffer in performing their gestures correctly without pain. The developed applications do not consider the patients psychological states when playing an exer-game. Therefore, we believe that is necessary to develop personalized and adaptive exer-games that take into consideration the patients’ emotions during rehabilitation exercises. This paper proposed a VR-PEER adaptive exer-game system based on emotion recognition. The platform contain three main modules: (1) computing and interpretation module, (2) emotion recognition module, (3) adaptation module. Furthermore, a virtual reality-based serious game is developed as a case study, that uses updated facial expression data and provides dynamically the patient’s appropriate game to play during rehabilitation exercises. An experimental study has been conducted on fifteen subjects who expressed the usefulness of the proposed system in motor rehabilitation process.

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confidence: 99%

Section: Capturing and Interpretation Phasementioning

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