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A tool to monitor and support physical exercise interventions for MCI and AD patients

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Georgios Papamakarios,

Charalampos KaragiannidisAuthors Info & Claims

PervasiveHealth '14: Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare

Pages 258 - 261

https://doi.org/10.4108/icst.pervasivehealth.2014.255345

Published: 20 May 2014 Publication History

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This paper presents a tool to monitor and support the execution of common physical exercise interventions targeting people with Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI), Alzheimer's Disease (AD) and elderly in general. Our tool aims (a) to stimulate and guide patients within physical exercise programs, (b) to monitor patient capacity to perform exercises suggested by clinicians and provide objective feedback and (c) to enable early diagnosis of significant changes in the physical capacity of users over time. Our tool incorporates a virtual 3D trainer, demonstrating prescribed exercises; currently, arms lifting, arms stretching, torso bending and torso twisting are supported. Utilizing a low-cost depth camera and markerless skeletal joint estimation, our tool monitors movement during exercise execution, evaluating patient performance with a set of metrics introduced herein. Through preliminary experimental analysis, our metrics were found of significant potential to discriminate among good and bad executions of the currently supported exercises.

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PervasiveHealth '14: Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare

May 2014

459 pages

ISBN:9781631900112

General Chair:
Andreas Hein
OFFIS-Institute for IT, Oldenburg, Germany
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Program Chairs:
Susanne Boll
OFFIS-Institute for IT, Oldenburg, Germany
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Friedrich Köhler
Charité, Berlin, Germany

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PervasiveHealth '14: 8th International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare

May 20 - 23, 2014

Oldenburg, Germany

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