Emotional stimulation during motor exercise: An integration to the holistic rehabilitation framework

Kritikos, Jacob; Caravas, Pamela; Tzannetos, Giannis; Douloudi, Marilina; Koutsouris, Dimitris

doi:10.1109/embc.2019.8857548

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“…The use of virtual reality and objective measures, such as physiological responses or behavioral observations, can be useful to solve such a complex problem. Virtual reality allows for more distinct stimuli to be applied to subjects, while objective measures allow for quantitative analysis [52][53][54][55]. The findings of this study revealed materials and conditions suitable for evoking a sense of attraction and will certainly benefit the design of such novel technologies.…”

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Enhancement of Handshake Attraction through Tactile, Visual, and Auditory Multimodal Stimulation

Kumagai

Nonomura

2023

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“Handshaking parties,” where pop idols shake hands with fans, can be exciting. The multimodal stimulation of tactile, visual, and auditory sensations can be captivating. In this study, we presented subjects with stimuli eliciting three sensory responses: tactile, visual, and auditory sensations. We found that the attraction scores of subjects increased because they felt the smoothness and obtained a human-like sensory experience grasping a grip handle covered with artificial skin, faux fur, and abrasive cloth with their dominant hand as they looked at a picture of a pop idol or listened to a song. When no pictures or songs were presented, a simple feeling of slight warmth was correlated with the attraction score. Results suggest that multimodal stimuli alter tactile sensations and the feelings evoked. This finding may be useful for designing materials that activate the human mind through tactile sensation and for developing humanoid robots and virtual reality systems.

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confidence: 73%

Enhancement of Handshake Attraction through Tactile, Visual, and Auditory Multimodal Stimulation

Kumagai

Nonomura

2023

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“…The capabilities of current technology can help develop even more immersive virtual environments and simulations for potential use in a variety of VRET treatments. During some VRET simulations, the phobic individual simply watches a recorded fearful situation taking place in the virtual environment, without being able to participate actively, even in recent studies [27][28][29][30]. In simulations without interaction they can only identify the phobic situation but not directly confront and face the phobic stimuli from an egocentric or an allocentric point of view.…”

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Comparison between Full Body Motion Recognition Camera Interaction and Hand Controllers Interaction used in Virtual Reality Exposure Therapy for Acrophobia

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Zoitaki

Tzannetos

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Virtual Reality has already been proven as a useful supplementary treatment tool for anxiety disorders. However, no specific technological importance has been given so far on how to apply Virtual Reality with a way that properly stimulates the phobic stimulus and provide the necessary means for lifelike experience. Thanks to technological advancements, there is now a variety of hardware that can help enhance stronger emotions generated by Virtual Reality systems. This study aims to evaluate the feeling of presence during different hardware setups of Virtual Reality Exposure Therapy, and, particularly how the user’s interaction with those setups can affects their sense of presence during the virtual simulation. An acrophobic virtual scenario is used as a case study by 20 phobic individuals and the Witmer–Singer presence questionnaire was used for presence evaluation by the users of the system. Statistical analysis on their answers revealed that the proposed full body Motion Recognition Cameras system generates a better feeling of presence compared to the Hand Controllers system. This is thanks to the Motion Recognition Cameras, which track and allow display of the user’s entire body within the virtual environment. Thus, the users are enabled to interact and confront the anxiety-provoking stimulus as in real world. Further studies are recommended, in which the proposed system could be used in Virtual Reality Exposure Therapy trials with acrophobic patients and other anxiety disorders as well, since the proposed system can provide natural interaction in various simulated environments.

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“…During training, many researchers, including [28][29][30], have confirmed the existence of a relationship between the patient's feelings and performance, as well as the results of physical therapy. In short-term group psychotherapy, [28] discovered that the experience and expression of positive emotions was related to positive therapeutic outcomes, whereas the intense expression of negative emotions was linked to negative outcomes.…”

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“…It was found in [29] that therapeutic change seemed to be related to the experience of positive emotions, while the experience of only negative emotions was associated with a bad therapeutic outcome. The goal of the research conducted by [30] is to look into the direct relationship between the patients' performance quality and a positive or negative emotional state that has been artificially induced. Statistical analysis of the resulting EMG and Accelerometer signals revealed a significant difference in the quality of each subject's physical exercise induced by various emotional triggers.…”

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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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Emotional stimulation during motor exercise: An integration to the holistic rehabilitation framework

Cited by 10 publications

References 20 publications

Enhancement of Handshake Attraction through Tactile, Visual, and Auditory Multimodal Stimulation

Enhancement of Handshake Attraction through Tactile, Visual, and Auditory Multimodal Stimulation

Comparison between Full Body Motion Recognition Camera Interaction and Hand Controllers Interaction used in Virtual Reality Exposure Therapy for Acrophobia

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

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