Kinect-Based Approach to Upper Limb Rehabilitation
Fig. 6.1 The output of a depth sensor visualized in a two-dimensional picture. A person is sitting in front of the sensor. Some parts are registered to be space occluded…
Evaluations with Patients and Lessons Learned
Fig. 10.1 Pronation (left) and Supination (right) Dorsi and Palmar Flexions Dorsiflexion and Palmar flexion are one joint motor activities of the hand (Fig. 10.2). The wrist is the used…
Prototyping and Business Potential
Fig. 9.1 System components (blue) and interactions between them: (1) wide area data exchange, (2) bidirectional audio-visual connection in real time, (3) small distance wired or wireless connection, (4) visual…
Data Flow-Driven BAN: Architecture and Algorithms
Fig. 3.1 StrokeBack data flow cycle for complete rehabilitation process It allows analysing the state of the patient in regular intervals and then applying respective feedback and/or corrective measures to…
Body Area Sensing Networks for Remote Health Monitoring
Fig. 4.1 Overview of a wireless body area network system for remote healthcare monitoring. On-body sensors monitor physiological parameters (ECG, SpO2) and motion and postural data. The collected data is…
Personal Health Record-based e-Health Services Platform
Fig. 8.1 PHR-S platform architecture Starting from the baseline, the Middleware Framework layer offers flexible and loose connection between internal and external components of the PHR-S. The functionality supported by…
Virtual Reality Gaming with Immersive User Interfaces
Fig. 7.1 Integration of the overall ‘home’ system Fig. 7.2 ECG sensing with Shimmer2R Since home-based rehabilitation may increase the risk of stroke re-occurrence we have decided to include EEG…
Requirements and Conceptual Architecture
Reaching movement Grasping movement Therapists and patients found a text area for therapists’ comments useful, as therapists could provide further tailored feedback and encouragement to patients. Finally, the later prototypes…
Motivation, Market and European Perspective
Fig. 1.1 StrokeBack rehabilitation cycle The project goal is achieved by investigating the following objectives: Telemedicine supervision of rehabilitation exercise Continuous monitoring of impact of exercises also in ‘normal’ life…
ILC Based Upper-Limb Rehabilitation—Planar Tasks
, and are components of the robotic base coordinate frame and , and are those of the human arm base coordinate frame, the two systems being related by a translation….
