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Rehabilitation of patients is a process aimed at enabling them to reach and maintain their optimal physical, sensory, intellectual, psychological and social functional levels. However, rehabilitation process is complex and patients need to be diagnosed, receive therapy, manage therapy sessions, be monitored and also obtain direct instructions by personal assistant. In this chapter, we present a project based on mobile devices and cloud computing which provides a new rehabilitation process. In this way, the interconnectivity of both the patient and the therapist in the field of psychological therapy is improved. The proposed solution is a mobile application that has several features taking advantage of the extensive technological utilization in the area of psychological rehabilitation. Its basic functionality is to assist people with stress or anxiety so that they can evaluate the degree of professional assistance acquisition using this application. In case they do not require professional assistance, the application would help them by suggesting appropriate relax aspects, providing them theoretical material and an available assistant for such purposes. As a cloud computing application, the system functionalities aim at providing direct communication and active contact with a therapist.
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Fardoun, H.M., Alghazzawi, D.M. (2015). A Mobile Solution to Improve the Rehabilitation Process. In: Fardoun, H., R. Penichet, V., Alghazzawi, D. (eds) ICTs for Improving Patients Rehabilitation Research Techniques. REHAB 2014. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 515. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-48645-0_3
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