Modelling Ecological Cognitive Rehabilitation Therapies for Building Virtual Environments in Brain Injury

Abstract

Methods:The proposed methodology is used to model therapeutic interventions during virtual ADLs considering cognitive deficit, expected abnormal interactions and therapeutic hypotheses. It allows identifying abnormal behavioural patterns and designing interventions strategies in order to achieve errorless-based rehabilitation.Results: An ADL case study ('buying bread') is defined according to the guidelines established by the ADL intervention model. This case study is developed, as a proof of principle, using interactive video technology and is used to assess the feasibility of the proposed methodology in the definition of therapeutic intervention procedures. Conclusions:The proposed methodology provides neuropsychologists with an instrument to design and evaluate ADL-based therapeutic intervention strategies, attending to solve actual limitation of virtual scenarios, to be use for ecological rehabilitation of cognitive deficit in daily clinical practice. The developed case study proves the potential of the methodology to design therapeutic interventions strategies; however our current work is devoted to designing more experiments in order to present more evidence about its values.

Is Virtual Rehabilitation Technology Ready to Be Widely Integrated in the Rehabilitation Area? An IT Governance Perspective

“…In addition, some methodologies have been designed to guide the design of VR environments and challenges--for example, Martinez-Moreno et al [51] for activities of daily living (ADL).…”