Design Factors of Virtual Environments for Upper Limb Motor Rehabilitation of Stroke Patients

Your hospital can just buy the damn article and implement it. They don't even have to think which is a good thing since your hospital hasn't spent any time in the last 30 years figuring out how to get stroke survivors rehabbed better. I expect hundreds of hospitals responding back with the details of their stroke protocols.
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Stroke survivors are often left with motor disabilities. Virtual environments for motor therapy are an emerging strategy to motivate, entertain or engage the rehabilitation patient to the therapy after stroke. The design of these specialized virtual environments requires to meet the needs of patients and therapists, which is not a simple task. To support the design of these applications a number of recommendations for the developers have been proposed in literature. Here, a taxonomy is proposed to classify the identified principles, criteria, implications, usability factors or guidelines on which the recommendations are based. The taxonomy identifies key factors in the design of virtual environments for upper limb motor therapy. The taxonomy is organized into three categories corresponding to different stages of the therapy: configuration of the exercise, assistance during the execution of the exercise and management of therapy results. We believe that agglutinating and organizing design factors into a taxonomy may reduce development times, facilitate communication between developers and clinical counterparts and increase chances of therapeutic validity.

Full Text: PDF Buy this Article Authors: Cristina Ramírez-Fernández Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad Autónoma de Baja California, Ensenada, México Alberto L. Morán Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad Autónoma de Baja California, Ensenada, México Eloísa García-Canseco Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad Autónoma de Baja California, Ensenada, México Felipe Orihuela-Espina Instituto Nacional de Astrofísica, Óptica y Electrónica, Puebla, México

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	MexIHC '14 Proceedings of the 5th Mexican Conference on Human-Computer Interaction
	Pages 22 ACM New York, NY, USA ©2014 table of contents ISBN: 978-1-4503-3285-9 doi>10.1145/2676690.2676700