Telerehabilitation Technologies: Accessibility and Usability

Pramuka, Michael; Roosmalen, Linda van

doi:10.5195/ijt.2008.702

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“…Technologies such as e‐mail, cellular texting, traditional phone lines, videoconferencing, cameras, 3‐dimensional motion sensors, sensors, global positioning systems, robotics, and virtual reality each offer a different type of data exchange. Pramuka and Van Roosmalen describe [17] how clinical application influences the pairing of technologies for health care delivery. For example, incorporating a physical examination into telehealth encounter may be achieved with both visual and haptic data in addition to audio data.…”

Section: Telehealth In Health Care Deliverymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Providing a framework to facilitate this technology is important for user adoption. For example, patients may need instructions on how to most effectively use video teleconferencing tools or applications to initiate the conference and to share the screen [17]. Technology usability for people with illness and disability may require additional adaptations and modifications.…”

Section: Telehealth In Health Care Deliverymentioning

confidence: 99%

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Telehealth in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation: A Narrative Review

Tenforde

Hefner

Kodish-Wachs

et al. 2017

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Telehealth refers to health care interactions that leverage telecommunication devices to provide medical care outside the traditional face-to-face, in-person medical encounter. Technology advances and research have expanded use of telehealth in health care delivery. Physical medicine and rehabilitation providers may use telehealth to deliver care to populations with neurologic and musculoskeletal conditions, commonly treated in both acute care and outpatient settings. Patients with impaired mobility and those living in locations with reduced access to care may particularly benefit. Video-teleconferencing has been shown to be effective for management of burn patients during acute rehabilitation, including reduced health care use expenses and less disruptions to care. Telehealth can facilitate developing interprofessional care plans. Patients with neurologic conditions including stroke, spinal cord injury, traumatic brain injury, and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis may use telehealth to monitor symptoms and response to treatment. Telehealth also may facilitate occupational and physical therapy programs as well as improve weight management and skin care in patients with chronic conditions. Other applications include imaging review in sports medicine, symptom management and counseling in concussion, traumatic brain injury, and pain management programs. Limitations of telehealth include barriers in establishing relationship between medical provider and patient, ability to perform limited physical examination, and differences in payment models and liability coverage. The expansion of telehealth services is expected to grow and has potential to improve patient satisfaction by delivering high quality and value of care.

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Section: Telehealth In Health Care Deliverymentioning

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Section: Telehealth In Health Care Deliverymentioning

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Telehealth in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation: A Narrative Review

Tenforde

Hefner

Kodish-Wachs

et al. 2017

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“…In particular, this study suggests that teleconference platforms can be used both in daily living and typical clinical settings and that they have a positive impact on more levels of functioning from cognitive to social. Teleconference platforms can involve both patients and their caregivers, in cases such as RTT [27][28][29][30][31][32][33]. In summary, the present study provides initial insights in promoting cognitive and social interactions and into the support needs of families with a child with RTT during the COVID-19 pandemic.…”

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Social and cognitive interactions through an interactive school service for RTT patients at the COVID-19 time

Dovigo

Caprì

Iannizzotto

et al. 2020

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Background The closure of all educational institutions and most rehabilitation centers represents a precautionary measure to face the COVID-19 pandemic, but the isolation and social distancing may be particularly challenging for children with special needs and disabilities (SEND), such as Rett Syndrome (RTT). The main aim of this study was to promote cognitive and social interactions among children and girls with RTT, through the interactive school program Methods The Interactive School palimpsest was composed of moments in which the teacher spoke directly to the subjects with RTT and expected a response through eye gaze, and moments in which stories-cartoon were presented while tracking the eye gaze of the patients. We investigated behavioural, social and cognitive parameters. Results Patients attended both social and cognitive tasks with the spontaneous reduction of stereotypies and with the increase of attention. They recalled more significant indexes when the music or the song was presented together with the cartoon or the cognitive task. Conclusions this study provides initial insights in promoting cognitive and social interactions and into the support needs of families with a child with RTT during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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“…On the contrary, accessibility studies can provide the mechanisms to offer the same means of use to all users of any interactive system. A study combining usability and accessibility was presented in [22]. The study analyzes how remote and/or video monitoring technologies affect the accessibility, effectiveness, quality and usefulness of the services offered by tele-rehabilitation systems.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…The study analyzes how remote and/or video monitoring technologies affect the accessibility, effectiveness, quality and usefulness of the services offered by tele-rehabilitation systems. To do this, the authors provide an overview of the fundamentals necessary for the analysis of usability, in addition to analyzing the strengths and limitations of various telerehabilitation technologies, considering how technologies interact with the clinical needs of end users such as accessibility, effectiveness, quality and utility of the service [22].…”

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A Systematic Review of Usability and Accessibility in Tele-Rehabilitation Systems

Pérez-Medina¹,

Acosta-Vargas²,

Rybarczyk³

2019

Assistive and Rehabilitation Engineering

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The appropriate development of tele-rehabilitation platforms requires the involvement and iterative assessments of potential users and experts in usability. Usability consists of measuring the degree to which an interactive system can be used by specified final users to achieve quantified objectives with effectiveness, efficiency, and satisfaction in a quantified context of use. Usability studies need to be complemented by an accessibility assessment. Accessibility indicates how easy it is for a person to access any content, regardless of their physical, educational, social, psychological, or cultural conditions. This chapter intends to conduct a systematic review of the literature on usability and accessibility in tele-rehabilitation platforms carried out through the PRISMA method. To do so, we searched in ACM, IEEE Xplore, Google Scholar, and Scopus databases for the most relevant papers of the last decade. The main result of the usability shows that the user experience predominates over the heuristic studies, and the usability questionnaire most used in user experience is the SUS. The main result of the accessibility reveals that the topic is only marginally studied. In addition, it is observed that Web applications do not apply the physical and cognitive accessibility standards defined by the WCAG 2.1.

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Telerehabilitation Technologies: Accessibility and Usability

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Cited by 26 publications

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Telehealth in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation: A Narrative Review

Telehealth in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation: A Narrative Review

Social and cognitive interactions through an interactive school service for RTT patients at the COVID-19 time

A Systematic Review of Usability and Accessibility in Tele-Rehabilitation Systems

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