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Mobile, Exercise-agnostic, Sensor-based Serious Games for Physical Rehabilitation at Home

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Ana Vasconcelos,

Francisco Nunes,

Alberto Carvalho,

Catarina CorreiaAuthors Info & Claims

TEI '18: Proceedings of the Twelfth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction

Pages 271 - 278

https://doi.org/10.1145/3173225.3173280

Published: 18 March 2018 Publication History

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Serious games can improve the physical rehabilitation of patients with different conditions. By monitoring exercises and offering feedback, serious games promote the correct execution of exercises outside the clinic. Nevertheless, existing serious games are limited to specific exercises, which reduces their practical impact. This paper describes the design of three exercise-agnostic games, that can be used for a multitude of rehabilitation scenarios. The developed games are displayed on a smartphone and are controlled by a wearable device, containing inertial and electromyography sensors. Results from a preliminary evaluation with 10 users are discussed, together with plans for future work.

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TEI '18: Proceedings of the Twelfth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction

March 2018

763 pages

ISBN:9781450355681

DOI:10.1145/3173225

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KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
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Södertörn University, Sweden
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