AR-based serious game framework for post-stroke rehabilitation

How is this better than these earlier writeups on 38 video games?
Does your hospital have ANY video games for stroke rehab? Or are they failing in that also? That is a call the president question on what constitutes a fireable offense for the stroke department head.
http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00530-015-0481-6

• M. Shamim Hossain 
• , Sandro Hardy
• , Atif Alamri
• , Abdulhameed Alelaiwi
• , Verena Hardy
• , Christoph Wilhelm

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Abstract

Stroke is considered one of the main causes of death around the world. Survivors often suffer different kinds of disabilities in terms of their cognitive and motor capabilities, and are therefore unable to perform their day-to-day activities. To regain some of their cognitive as well as motor abilities, they require rehabilitation. To this end, we present a serious game framework based on augmented reality technology that may motivate the patients’ involvement in the rehabilitation exercise. Additionally, we analyze the requirements for such a framework and describe the concept and implementation of the proposed approach. Furthermore, we designed a wireless vibrotactile output device that is attached to a tangible object. The tangible object that is connected to the framework can give haptic as well as audio-visual feedback to the patient in a more motivating and entertaining environment for rehabilitation exercises. The suitability and utility of the proposed framework was evaluated with real stroke patients and compared against the performance of a healthy control group, thus facilitating occupational therapists in assessing a patient’s progress. Our evaluations show that the serious games with vibrotactile feedback are well accepted by patients.