Adaptive Virtual Reality Games for Rehabilitation of Motor Disorders Export

@incollection{citeulike:2837869, abstract = {This paper describes the development of a Virtual Reality (VR) based therapeutic training system aimed at encourage stroke patients with upper limb motor disorders to practice physical exercises. The system contains a series of physically-based VR games. Physically-based simulation provides realistic motion of virtual objects by modelling the behaviour of virtual objects and their responses to external force and torque based on physics laws. We present opportunities for applying physics simulation techniques in VR therapy and discuss their potential therapeutic benefits to motor rehabilitation. A framework for physically-based VR rehabilitation systems is described which consists of functional tasks and game scenarios designed to encourage patients' physical activity in highly motivating, physics-enriched virtual environments where factors such as gravity can be scaled to adapt to individual patient's abilities and in-game performance.}, author = {Ma, Minhua and Mcneill, Michael and Charles, Darryl and Mcdonough, Suzanne and Crosbie, Jacqui and Oliver, Louise and Mcgoldrick, Clare}, citeulike-article-id = {2837869}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-73281-5_74}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://www.springerlink.com/content/91k16l16811h1101}, doi = {10.1007/978-3-540-73281-5_74}, journal = {Universal Access in Human-Computer Interaction. Ambient Interaction}, keywords = {adaptive, disorder, games, motor, reality, rehabilitation, virtual}, pages = {681--690}, posted-at = {2009-08-05 00:33:37}, priority = {2}, title = {Adaptive Virtual Reality Games for Rehabilitation of Motor Disorders}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-73281-5_74}, year = {2007} }

TY - CHAP ID - citeulike:2837869 L3 - citeulike-article-id:2837869 N2 - This paper describes the development of a Virtual Reality (VR) based therapeutic training system aimed at encourage stroke patients with upper limb motor disorders to practice physical exercises. The system contains a series of physically-based VR games. Physically-based simulation provides realistic motion of virtual objects by modelling the behaviour of virtual objects and their responses to external force and torque based on physics laws. We present opportunities for applying physics simulation techniques in VR therapy and discuss their potential therapeutic benefits to motor rehabilitation. A framework for physically-based VR rehabilitation systems is described which consists of functional tasks and game scenarios designed to encourage patients’ physical activity in highly motivating, physics-enriched virtual environments where factors such as gravity can be scaled to adapt to individual patient’s abilities and in-game performance. JF - Universal Access in Human-Computer Interaction. Ambient Interaction EP - 690 TI - Adaptive Virtual Reality Games for Rehabilitation of Motor Disorders SP - 681 KW - adaptive KW - disorder KW - games KW - motor KW - reality KW - rehabilitation KW - virtual AU - Ma, Minhua AU - Mcneill, Michael AU - Charles, Darryl AU - Mcdonough, Suzanne AU - Crosbie, Jacqui AU - Oliver, Louise AU - Mcgoldrick, Clare PY - 2007/// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-73281-5_74 ER -