Towards pervasive physical rehabilitation using Microsoft Kinect

By Chien-Yen Chang, B. Lange, Mi Zhang, Sebastian T. Koenig, P. Requejo, N. Somboon, Alexander A. Sawchuk, Albert A. Rizzo. International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare, 2012

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The use of Virtual Reality technology for developing tools for rehabilitation has attracted significant interest in the physical therapy arena. This paper presents a comparison of motion tracking performance between the low-cost Microsoft Kinect and the high fidelity OptiTrack optical system. Data is collected on six upper limb motor tasks that have been incorporated into a game-based rehabilitation application. The experiment results show that Kinect can achieve competitive motion tracking performance as OptiTrack and provide “pervasive” accessibility that enables patients to take rehabilitation treatment in clinic and home environment.

Subfields: Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Rehabilitation, Human-Computer Interaction

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In Rehabilitation

1. Wenbing Zhao
2. Roanna Lun
3. Maryam Khademi
4. Hossein Mousavi Hondori

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1. Wenbing Zhao
2. Roanna Lun
3. Maryam Khademi
4. Hossein Mousavi Hondori

Citations in the corpus

• Biomechanical Validation of Upper-Body and Lower-Body Joint Movements of Kinect Motion Capture Data for Rehabilitation Treatments (2012, methodology): “Recently, in [18] a similar approach is adopted to implement a serious game after comparing Kinect motion capture performance against a marker-based motion capture system.”
• A Survey of Applications and Human Motion Recognition with Microsoft Kinect (2015, methodology): “and analysis, researchers at ICT have proved that the Kinect technology can make a major contribution to the quality of traditional intervention training programs that specialize in mental health therapy, motor skills rehabilitation, cognitive assessment and clinical skills training.(19,53,67,68,118”