Supporting Playful Rehabilitation in the Home using Virtual Reality Headsets and Force Feedback Gloves

A Video-Based Augmented Reality System for Human-in-the-Loop Muscle Strength Assessment of Juvenile Dermatomyositis

“…The use of VR and AR technologies in healthcare has been increasing due to the capability they possess to enable a wide range of delivering healthcare applications [9,15,23,32,34,36,40,43,44,49], including the training of physicians and other healthcare professionals, as well as enhancing their ability to provide remote diagnosis services.…”

“…In the field of medical diagnosis [8,15,35,36,40,43,44], VR/AR plays a key role in the useful tool for the human-centered data acquisition. Researchers often build VR/AR scenes to collect human motion data to analyze and diagnose diseases.…”

“…Researchers often build VR/AR scenes to collect human motion data to analyze and diagnose diseases. For example, Wang et al [40] utilized a VR helmet and force feedback gloves to present users with a playful experience for home rehabilitation. This study explores the potential of fully immersing them in a playful experience within a virtual cat bathing simulation.…”

LightSword: A Customized Virtual Reality Exergame for Long-Term Cognitive Inhibition Training in Older Adults

“…Recently, many studies have demonstrated the effectiveness of Virtual Reality (VR) exergames in improving the cognitive inhibition of older adults [33,37,46,51,64,94,122]. VR exergames combine physical exercise with cognitive training, offering an engaging and appealing training method that motivates older adults to train over extended periods [23,89,115]. Furthermore, VR exergames could provide rich visual and auditory stimuli.…”

“…3.1 Adapt the Difficulty According to Participants' Fitness Level and Improvements. We emphasized the importance of dynamically increasing game difficulty, a key feature in ensuring motivation and compliance in long-term training [52,85,115,121]. In the design process, our game assessed the participants' cognitive inhibition condition (reaction time) and then customized the difficulty based on the maximum, minimum, and average values.…”