Ponencia
Open Source Virtual Worlds and Low Cost Sensors for Physical Rehab of Patients with Chronic Diseases
Autor/es | Romero, Salvador Jesús
Fernández Luque, Luis Sevillano Ramos, José Luis Vognild, Lars |
Departamento | Universidad de Sevilla. Departamento de Arquitectura y Tecnología de Computadores |
Fecha de publicación | 2009 |
Fecha de depósito | 2020-03-04 |
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ISBN/ISSN | 978-3-642-11744-2 1867-8211 |
Resumen | For patients with chronic diseases, exercise is a key part of rehab to
deal better with their illness. Some of them do rehabilitation at home with telemedicine
systems. However, keeping to their exercising program is ... For patients with chronic diseases, exercise is a key part of rehab to deal better with their illness. Some of them do rehabilitation at home with telemedicine systems. However, keeping to their exercising program is challenging and many abandon the rehabilitation. We postulate that information technologies for socializing and serious games can encourage patients to keep doing physical exercise and rehab. In this paper we present Virtual Valley, a low cost telemedicine system for home exercising, based on open source virtual worlds and utilizing popular low cost motion controllers (e.g. Wii Remote) and medical sensors. Virtual Valley allows patient to socialize, learn, and play group based serious games while exercising. |
Cita | Romero, S.J., Fernández Luque, L., Sevillano Ramos, J.L. y Vognild, L. (2009). Open Source Virtual Worlds and Low Cost Sensors for Physical Rehab of Patients with Chronic Diseases. En eHealth 2009: Second International ICST Conference on Electronic Healthcare (76-79), Istanbul, Turkey: Springer. |
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