Data Management for Multimodal Rehabilitation Games

Notelaers, Sofie; Weyer, Tom De; Raymaekers, Chris; Coninx, Karin; Bastiaens, Hanne; Lamers, Ilse

doi:10.1109/dexa.2010.45

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“…The gimbal allowed patients to interact with the device without the need to grip the haptic master with their hand, which is difficult for many persons in the target group. The HapticMaster was used to move a weightless virtual object (representing participants' current location in the VE) towards target locations within the VE, that is described in more detail elsewhere [27]. This VE was run on a computer with a 19” CRT screen as the visual output.…”

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Visualizing the third dimension in virtual training environments for neurologically impaired persons: beneficial or disruptive?

Hoogen

Feys

Lamers

et al. 2012

Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation

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BackgroundMany contemporary systems for neurorehabilitation utilize 3D virtual environments (VEs) that allow for training patients’ hand or arm movements. In the current paper we comparatively test the effectiveness of two characteristics of VEs in rehabilitation training when utilizing a 3D haptic interaction device: Stereo Visualization (monoscopic vs stereoscopic image presentation) and Graphic Environment (2.5D vs 3D).MethodAn experimental study was conducted using a factorial within-subjects design. Patients (10 MS, 8 CVA) completed three tasks, each including a specific arm-movement along one of three directional axes (left-right, up-down and forward-backward).ResultsThe use of stereoscopy within a virtual training environment for neurorehabilitation of CVA and MS patients is most beneficial when the task itself requires movement in depth. Further, the 2.5D environment yields the highest efficiency and accuracy in terms of patients’ movements. These findings were, however, dependent on participants’ stereoscopic ability.ConclusionDespite the performance benefits of stereoscopy, our findings illustrate the non-triviality of choices of using stereoscopy, and the type of graphic environment implemented. These choices should be made with the task and target group, and even the individual patient in mind.

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Visualizing the third dimension in virtual training environments for neurologically impaired persons: beneficial or disruptive?

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Lamers

et al. 2012

Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation

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“…That is, an individual could have a specific combination of impairments based on his or her brain injury location, size, and type. A previous work outlined several important factors for ensuring successful rehabilitation therapy [7]. The first factor is that the patients must be challenged when undergoing rehabilitation tasks, but not to the point that they cannot perform the tasks.…”

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A Rehabilitation Gaming System for Cognitive Deficiencies: Design and Usability Evaluation

Elaklouk¹,

Zin

2019

Int. J. Adv. Sci. Eng. Inf. Technol.

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Patients with Acquired Brain Injuries or ABI experience various cognitive deficiencies that adversely impact their daily lives, as their ability to perform everyday activities, becomes severely limited. These patients would benefit more from engaging in unconventional cognitive rehabilitation, specifically rehabilitation using Serious Games. However, it is difficult to categorize cognitive disabilities due to their heterogeneity; therefore individualized rehabilitation interventions are required. It is also challenging to design games for cognitive rehabilitation, as the complexity and production cost for these games are usually very high. There is an abundance of recent studies on cognitive rehabilitation, particularly game-based interventions. However, some studies explain how to design games that are enjoyable and usable for patients with cognitive disabilities. Hence, this study addresses this issue with a proposed framework for therapeutic game developers targeting patients with cognitive deficiencies. To this end, a prototype Rehabilitation Gaming System (RGS) was developed and evaluated by therapists. A 7-point Likert scale usability questionnaire was used and the mean scores for layout/design (5.94), ease of use (5.40), easy to learn (5.76), usefulness (5.96) and satisfaction (6.1) indicate that RGS has good usability. Therapists are willing to use RGS for rehabilitation purposes. Practitioners, game developers, and patients in the healthcare field will be able to use the proposed framework as a guide and tool for designing and implementing games targeted for cognitive rehabilitation.

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“…The present study on GC is part of a research project (INTERREG-IV-project "Rehabilitation Robotics II" with code IVA-VLANED-1.14) that investigates the effects of arm training with a haptic robot in a 3-dimensional workspace to interact in a virtual (visual and haptic) learning environment [13]. Haptic robots, such as the Phantom and HapticMaster (HM), are typical end-effectors and can assist the movement of the patient.…”

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Facilitating robot-assisted training in MS patients with arm paresis: A procedure to individually determine gravity compensation

Bastiaens

Alders

Feys

et al. 2011

2011 IEEE International Conference on Rehabilitation Robotics

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Abstract-Gravity compensation (GC) of the arm is used tofacilitate arm movements in conventional therapy as well as in robot-assisted rehabilitation of neurologically impaired persons. Positive effects of GC on ROM have been demonstrated in stroke. In multiple sclerosis (MS), research regarding this topic is lacking. Since an active participation of the patient is required for effective training, full support of the arm might not be advisable. The present study reports on the development of a procedure to measure actively the individual need for GC and to estimate the influence of GC on ROM during reaching, lifting and transporting in severely affected persons with MS (PwMS).Ten persons with MS were tested with the procedure for determination of GC. Maximal reaching movements were performed in a 3D space in three conditions: without GC (NS), with GC by the HapticMaster (GS) and with GC by the HapticMaster combined with a sling suspension system (GSS). For the total sample, significant correlations were found between the amount of GC and clinical tests (MI, FM, ARAT). In four subjects with severe arm dysfunction it was found that mean ROM is larger in the GSS condition compared to the GS condition, and in the GS condition compared to the NS condition, suggesting positive effects of GC on active ROM (aROM) in PwMS. Therefore, GC could have a positive effect on arm rehabilitation by enabling the PwMS to actively reach a larger ROM during training.

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Data Management for Multimodal Rehabilitation Games

Cited by 9 publications

References 6 publications

Visualizing the third dimension in virtual training environments for neurologically impaired persons: beneficial or disruptive?

Visualizing the third dimension in virtual training environments for neurologically impaired persons: beneficial or disruptive?

A Rehabilitation Gaming System for Cognitive Deficiencies: Design and Usability Evaluation

Facilitating robot-assisted training in MS patients with arm paresis: A procedure to individually determine gravity compensation

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