The Development and Evaluation of an Interactive System for Age Related Musculoskeletal Rehabilitation in the Home

Ayoade, Mobolaji; Uzor, Stephen; Baillie, Lynne

doi:10.1007/978-3-642-40498-6_1

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“…Studies evaluating virtual environments or human representations (three publications 31,32,36 ) showed potential to promote exercise engagement. Older adults found them motivating, which may be important among older adults who find it difficult to engage in activities due to impaired physical abilities.…”

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Visualization approaches to support healthy aging: A systematic review

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Chi

Choi

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Background Informatics tools have the potential to support the growing number of older adults who are aging in place. Many tools include visualizations (data visualizations and visualizations of physical representations). However, the role of visualizations in supporting aging in place remains largely unexplored. Objective To synthesize and identify gaps in the literature evaluating visualizations (data visualizations and visualizations of physical representations) for informatics tools to support healthy aging. Methods We conducted a search in CINAHL, Embase, Engineering Village, PsycINFO, PubMed, and Web of Science using a priori defined terms for publications in English describing community-based studies evaluating visualizations used by adults aged ≥ 65 years. Results Six out of the identified 251 publications were eligible. Most studies described in the publications were user studies and all varied methodological quality. Three publications described visualizations of virtual representations supported performing at-home exercises. Participants found visual representations either (1) helpful, motivational, and supported their understanding of their health behaviours or (2) not an improvement over alternatives. Three publications described data visualizations that aimed to support understanding of one’s health. Participants were able to interpret data visualizations that used precise data and encodings that were more concrete better than those that did not provide precision or were abstract. Participants found data visualizations helpful in understanding their overall health and granular data. Conclusions Few studies were identified that used and evaluated visualizations for older adults to promote engagement in exercises or understanding of their health. While visualizations demonstrated some promise to support older adult users in these activities, the studies had various methodological limitations. More research is needed, including research that overcomes methodological limitations of studies we identified, to develop visualizations that older adults could use with ease and accuracy to support their health behaviours and decision making.

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confidence: 99%

Visualization approaches to support healthy aging: A systematic review

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Choi

et al. 2016

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“…In this paper we report on the inertial sensors that we used to overcome the limitations posed by other motion sensing technologies. These sensors were found to be easy to use as well as comfortable for the user to wear [3].…”

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“…One study was carried out in the laboratory so that the system could be evaluated in a controlled environment. The other study was carried out in participants' homes (the intended environment) [3]. We found that the rehabilitation visualization system enabled the participants to perform the exercises more correctly as they paid attention to the pace, range of movement and the number of repetitions completed.…”

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“…We undertook a design workshop that was published in [3] with eleven former knee replacement patients to explore user design requirements. The first prototype rehabilitation visualization system was presented to them and consisted of two inertial motion sensors and a low fidelity animation on a laptop.…”

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“…Thus there has been a growing interest in the development and evaluation of enabling rehabilitation technologies that could provide some form of feedback and motivation for various health conditions. These health conditions include but are not limited to stroke rehabilitation [26], falls prevention [34] and knee replacements [3,33]. Some of these systems have been shown to motivate and promote enjoyment of rehabilitation activities but there is limited evidence supporting their clinical effectiveness [12].…”

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A novel knee rehabilitation system for the home

Ayoade

Baillie

2014

Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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In this paper, we describe the design and evaluation of an interactive home-based rehabilitation visualisation system used by a wide variety of ages (users in our studies were aged from 47-89) to undertake rehabilitation in the home following knee replacement surgery. We present the rehabilitation visualization system and the results of a randomized controlled study in which we investigated the usability and feasibility of the system in the home. We found that our users were able to use the system successfully for their rehabilitation with improved rehabilitation outcomes after 6 weeks when compared to the current rehabilitation care. Finally we highlight the lessons learned which will benefit prospective designers of home rehabilitation technology in ensuring successful home evaluations in clinical rehabilitation.

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