Electromyography and Augmented Reality for Motor Rehabilitation

Virtual and Augmented Reality for Neurofunctional Recovery and Human Movement Analysis

“…Among the projects aimed at the creation and testing of new technologies for neurorehabilitation, the BRAINN_VR research line is responsible for the areas of development in a) virtual and augmented reality interfaces [1,2,6,8,16,19,20] (immersive and nonimmersive virtual environments) associated with adapted physical activity and context physical and neurofunctional rehabilitation; b) wearable devices for sensing and body recognition associated with the control of virtual environments [3,7,9,12,14,15] (from gestural interaction) and; c) movement analysis solution to quantify the functional evolution and describe the motor behaviour associated with gestural interaction [4,5,17] (KinesiOS software). Figure 2 presents the environment's set-up for carrying out the tests.…”

“…Such initiatives include developing gesture recognition technologies from computer vision (body scanner) and sensing technologies (ultrasound and inertial units) (Figure 3). They aim to control (by gestural interaction) augmented and virtual reality interfaces with gerontology [13] (mental health) applications and neurofunctional recovery therapies [2,8,10,11,18] not limited to those specialities or pathologies. Also, contributing to training kinesiology specialists with assistive technologies related to virtual reality, especially in physiotherapy, occupational therapy, physical education and medicine (orthopaedics and physiatrics) courses.…”

“…The results of quantification of movement with the KinesiOS software [5,17] allow the reconstruction of motor activity during interaction with augmented reality interfaces. Figure 5 shows the Part of the investigations of the BRAINN_VR research initiative consists of measuring brain activity (through brain connectivity analysis, Figure 6) from the intervention associated with virtual rehabilitation solutions [8,19], thus accelerating the neurorehabilitation process in patients with neurological pathologies with compromised functionality. Approval by the ethics committee for research with human beings at the State University of Campinas (CAAE: 35771314.4.0000.5404), all subjects signed an informed consent form before data collection.…”