MoVEROffice: Virtual Reality for Upper Limbs Rehabilitation

Aranha, Renan Vinícius; Araújo, Luciano Vieira de; Monteiro, Carlos Bandeira de Mello; Silva, Talita D. Da; Nunes, Fátima L. S.

doi:10.1109/svr.2016.36

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“…On the other hand, training for daily activities can be seen as another trend. "MOVEROffice" is a SG that makes use of VR and natural interaction for upper limbs rehabilitation [17]. The objective is to have patients acquiring skills in performing given tasks in the virtual environment, for later transfer into their daily activities.…”

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Gamifying Motor Rehabilitation Therapies: Challenges and Opportunities of Immersive Technologies

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Menezes

2020

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Recovering from a traumatic incident (e.g, a stroke) implies rigorous and demanding therapies to ensure recovery of the lost capabilities. Due to the lack of short-term visible results, stroke patients tend to lose interest in their recovery process and frequently do not follow their therapists’ suggestions to continue performing their training at home, between physiotherapy sessions. This article explores the extent to which common computer games or specifically crafted games can serve as a rehabilitation practice, but also how conventional therapeutic devices might be transformed to be incorporated into games. Furthermore, we propose a platform that follows the opportunity of creating serious games that are designed for stroke patients with reduced upper limb mobility while following the same principles of common therapeutic procedures. This platform was carefully built with the purpose of allowing patients to comply tele-rehabilitation and promoting the execution of the recommended training at home. Following these ideas, we integrated two carefully designed games that have been tested and validated in our previous works, and we added a top-layer characterized by an online back-end application for therapists that allows them to observe their patients’ progress over time and draw different conclusions.

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Gamifying Motor Rehabilitation Therapies: Challenges and Opportunities of Immersive Technologies

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“…The use of interactive AR/VR technology can help them do this. There are a number of studies on serious games for pain relief and rehabilitation treatment using AR/VR technologies [36][37][38][39][40][41][42][43]. Among them, studies related to upper limb rehabilitation therapy for adult stroke patients have been actively conducted, and guidelines were presented in [44].…”

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Mobile Augmented Reality Serious Game for Improving Old Adults’ Working Memory

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As the aging population increases rapidly throughout the world, various approaches and studies are in progress to prevent age-related diseases. Among the diseases related to the elderly, dementia (in which cognitive function declines) is classified as a mental disorder. Since there is currently no therapeutic agent for dementia, early diagnosis and prophylactic approaches may be useful. In this study, a mobile-based augmented reality system for regular cognitive function training is proposed to minimize declines in cognitive function among the elderly. Using the characteristics of markerless augmented reality technology that can support physical activities, the foregoing system was developed in the form of a serious game based on an understanding of physical aging by the main users and inspired by existing psychological cognitive evaluation tools. The augmented reality system proposed in this study aims to induce the active participation of clients with goal setting and motivation using a gamified training system. In addition, it can ultimately be used as a self-assessment tool by recording an individual users’ performance ability. This proposed system must be used after receiving proper guidance from psychologists. The game protocol was designed together with experts in clinical psychology: therapists as well as neuropsychological assessors who were experienced in carrying out cognitive training sessions. The experts said that the system could help improve cognitive functions, such as working memory, attention concentration, and visual perception memory. However, this system has some limitations. This system was verified once with a small number of experts and could not be introduced to an actual elderly group to undergo verification of effectiveness. To compensate, we will conduct experiments to verify the effectiveness in order to avoid placebo effects. The effectiveness of program implementation will be verified by digitizing the correlations between the results of the neuropsychological assessment in the form of paper and pens and the results of signal data.

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“…In partnership with physiotherapists, LApIS has developed serious games to aid training and motor rehabilitation processes. In [1], a VR serious game is described for the motor rehabilitation of patients considering the performance of daily activities. Also in this context, Funabashi et al [2] proposed a serious game whose task is to associate images, involving cognitive and motor challenges.…”

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Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality and Beyond: Laboratory of Computer Applications for Health Care at University of São Paulo

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The Laboratory of Computer Applications for Health Care at University of São Paulo develop multidisciplinary research involving Computer Science areas and other knowledge fields such as Physiotherapy, Psychiatry, Radiology, and Cardiology. Most studies use concepts besides Computer Science, by aggregating knowledge to solve real problems. In this paper we present the main projects in Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality areas, highlighting serious games, computer-aided diagnosis and therapy, simulation and training. Besides the social and scientific impact inherent to the type of the developed research, some systems are available to health professionals in order to allow technology transfer and consequent technological and economic impact in daily activities of health tasks.

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MoVEROffice: Virtual Reality for Upper Limbs Rehabilitation

Cited by 10 publications

References 23 publications

Gamifying Motor Rehabilitation Therapies: Challenges and Opportunities of Immersive Technologies

Gamifying Motor Rehabilitation Therapies: Challenges and Opportunities of Immersive Technologies

Mobile Augmented Reality Serious Game for Improving Old Adults’ Working Memory

Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality and Beyond: Laboratory of Computer Applications for Health Care at University of São Paulo

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