Gustavo Cuberos Urbano, Á. Ruíz-Zafra, Manuel Noguera, Kawtar Benghazi Akhlaki, A. Caracuel
{"title":"Self-monitoring and professional feedback through CloudRehab, a mobile cloud platform for neuro-rehabiliation","authors":"Gustavo Cuberos Urbano, Á. Ruíz-Zafra, Manuel Noguera, Kawtar Benghazi Akhlaki, A. Caracuel","doi":"10.4108/ICST.PERVASIVEHEALTH.2014.255384","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4108/ICST.PERVASIVEHEALTH.2014.255384","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents the development of an m-Health platform for supporting the rehabilitation process of patients with acquired brain injury. A six-step methodology for neuro-rehabilitation was supported by the platform called CloudRehab. This cloud-supported home-based rehabilitation platform includes a mobile application and a web application. The mobile application has been designed to record and play videos simultaneously, as well as collect physiological and behavioral data to be uploaded to the cloud. The collected data are accessed through a web application for professionals of health. A single subject research design indicated the platform was effective for improving a daily living activity of a patient with chronic sequelae after stroke. CloudRehab improve the performance of the rehabilitation exercise in a real-context training, contributing to the effectiveness of the rehabilitation process. The use of technological solutions for supporting neuro-rehabilitation can seamlessly provide benefits to patients and health systems.","PeriodicalId":120856,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare","volume":"43 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-05-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116888558","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
P. Gamito, Jorge Oliveira, Ludmila Pinto, L. Rodelo, P. Lopes, R. Brito, D. Morais
{"title":"Normative data for a cognitive VR rehab serious games-based approach","authors":"P. Gamito, Jorge Oliveira, Ludmila Pinto, L. Rodelo, P. Lopes, R. Brito, D. Morais","doi":"10.4108/icst.pervasivehealth.2014.255277","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4108/icst.pervasivehealth.2014.255277","url":null,"abstract":"Acquired brain impairments are responsible for cognitive dysfunctions that affect daily life activities. Promoting cognitive exercise through ecologically-based interactive media such as virtual reality is an emerging option. Although the first step towards ecological ways to stimulate cognitive functions has been given, assessment still relies on non-ecological measures such as pencil-and-paper protocols. We propose that an effective alternative to these traditional evaluation methods is to assess patients while they execute exercises that mimic real-life tasks, such as shopping, dressing, or preparing breakfast. For this, normative data is required. This paper reports a study designed to gather normative data on several daily-life exercises run by a non-clinical sample. The descriptive data on task performance and effects of prior experience with video-games are discussed.","PeriodicalId":120856,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare","volume":"52 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-05-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117283441","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
A. Héloir, Fabrizio Nunnari, S. Haudegond, Y. Lebrun, C. Kolski
{"title":"Description of a self-adaptive architecture for upper-limb rehabilitation","authors":"A. Héloir, Fabrizio Nunnari, S. Haudegond, Y. Lebrun, C. Kolski","doi":"10.4108/icst.pervasivehealth.2014.255246","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4108/icst.pervasivehealth.2014.255246","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents a natural and intuitive user interface architecture that uses a consumer-range 3D hand capture device to interactively edit objects in 3D space. While running, the system monitors the user's behaviors and performance in order to maintain an up-to-date model of the user. This model then drives on the fly the re-arrangement and re-parameterization of a rule-based system that controls the interaction. A preliminary user study let us define the initial parameters of this self-adaptive system. We believe that the self-adaptive aspects of the architecture we propose is well suited to the problematics of rehabilitation. This system can, from the beginning, adapt to both the user's impairments and needs, then follow and adapt its interaction logic according to the user's progress. Such a system would, for instance, enable a clinician or a therapist to design tailored rehabilitation activities accounting for the patient's exact physical and physiological condition.","PeriodicalId":120856,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare","volume":"114 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-05-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124780615","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Ambient activity monitoring for medical applications in multi-person households","authors":"Sebastian M. Müller","doi":"10.4108/icst.pervasivehealth.2014.255794","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4108/icst.pervasivehealth.2014.255794","url":null,"abstract":"This paper outlines doctoral research towards automated activity monitoring in the home, including past results and future plans. The aim of this research is to understand the possibilities and limitations of automated, or \"unsupervised\", approaches to ambient activity monitoring. Numerous applications of ambient activity monitoring, from care assessments to rehabilitation monitoring, have been developed in the past, but most approaches require complex calibration routines or are limited to single-person households. Furthermore, the requirements and theoretical limits of these approaches, such as sensor density and inhabitant-sensor-ratio, have not been studied.","PeriodicalId":120856,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-05-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129422694","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Why traditional usability criteria fall short in ambient assisted living environments","authors":"M. Ziefle, Wiktoria Wilkowska","doi":"10.4108/icst.pervasivehealth.2014.255481","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4108/icst.pervasivehealth.2014.255481","url":null,"abstract":"According to ISO 9241, traditional usability definitions focus on pragmatic aspects of technical systems, such as the ease of using a system (effectiveness, efficiency) and the perceived usefulness. While this definition was found to be highly applicable for a wide range of technical systems in the working context, it is a major question if the pragmatic approach is adequate for novel technical developments (e.g., health supporting systems) in the home sector. The integration of medical technology in home environments, such as Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) requests a high willingness of users to accept new forms of medical assistance and to rely on the technology in a very sensitive and intimate field. Also, user diversity is a serious issue, as increasingly more, and especially older users will have to master technical devices in the near future. In order to contribute to a basic acceptance understanding of such medical technologies against the background of user diversity, in this research, along with the traditional usability criteria, additional aspects of system usability are examined. Results show that the sole consideration of ease of use and the perceived usefulness is not sufficient for current designs. Future usability concepts should much more integrate additional aspects like trust in technology, wish for privacy protection, system reliability and fun, especially when designing technology solutions for older users.","PeriodicalId":120856,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare","volume":"32 11","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-05-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"113992695","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Automatic recognition of fear-avoidance behavior in chronic pain physical rehabilitation","authors":"M. Aung, N. Bianchi-Berthouze, P. Watson, Ac De","doi":"10.4108/icst.pervasivehealth.2014.254945","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4108/icst.pervasivehealth.2014.254945","url":null,"abstract":"Physical activity is beneficial in chronic pain rehabilitation. However, due to psychological anxieties about pain and the percevied risk of injury, physical activity is often avoided by people with chronic pain. This avoidance is expressed through self protective body movement aimed at avoiding strain, particularly in painful areas. The detection of protective behaviour is crucial for effective rehabilitation advice and to enable a more normal lifestyle. Current technology to motivate physical activity in rehabilitation contexts does not address these psychological barriers. In this paper, we investigate the automatic recognition of a specific form of protective behaviour, guarding, common in people with chronic lower back pain. We trained ensembles of decision trees, Random Forests, on posture and velocity based features from motion capture and electromyographic data. Results show overall out of bag F1-classification scores of 0.81 and 0.73 for sitting to standing and one leg stand exercises respectively.","PeriodicalId":120856,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare","volume":"50 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-05-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124333710","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Franziska Bathelt-Tok, S. Glesner, O. Blankenstein
{"title":"Data-dependent controller synthesis to enable reliable and safe interoperability of medical devices","authors":"Franziska Bathelt-Tok, S. Glesner, O. Blankenstein","doi":"10.4108/icst.pervasivehealth.2014.254949","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4108/icst.pervasivehealth.2014.254949","url":null,"abstract":"Due to the lack of formal data treatment within the controller synthesis process, a lot of manual effort is needed to enable a reliable and safe interoperability of medical devices. This manual effort makes the process time-consuming, expensive, error-prone and, thus, reduces the will to apply it to real-world questions. To tackle this problem we build up the basis for the generic modeling and correct composition of data related device behavior using algebraic Petri nets. Hence, we are able to synthesize controllers that ensure safety critical and data-dependent functional properties cost-efficiently and automatically so that devices can be combined properly and almost independently from their manufacturers.","PeriodicalId":120856,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare","volume":"39 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-05-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124352041","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
G. Papamakarios, Dimitrios Giakoumis, Manolis Vasileiadis, K. Votis, D. Tzovaras, S. Segkouli, Charalampos Karagiannidis
{"title":"A tool to monitor and support physical exercise interventions for MCI and AD patients","authors":"G. Papamakarios, Dimitrios Giakoumis, Manolis Vasileiadis, K. Votis, D. Tzovaras, S. Segkouli, Charalampos Karagiannidis","doi":"10.4108/icst.pervasivehealth.2014.255345","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4108/icst.pervasivehealth.2014.255345","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents a tool to monitor and support the execution of common physical exercise interventions targeting people with Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI), Alzheimer's Disease (AD) and elderly in general. Our tool aims (a) to stimulate and guide patients within physical exercise programs, (b) to monitor patient capacity to perform exercises suggested by clinicians and provide objective feedback and (c) to enable early diagnosis of significant changes in the physical capacity of users over time. Our tool incorporates a virtual 3D trainer, demonstrating prescribed exercises; currently, arms lifting, arms stretching, torso bending and torso twisting are supported. Utilizing a low-cost depth camera and markerless skeletal joint estimation, our tool monitors movement during exercise execution, evaluating patient performance with a set of metrics introduced herein. Through preliminary experimental analysis, our metrics were found of significant potential to discriminate among good and bad executions of the currently supported exercises.","PeriodicalId":120856,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-05-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131379088","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Alejandro Rodríguez Isasi, A. Mendez Zorrilla, B. García Zapirain
{"title":"Supporting elderly people's cognitive rehabilitation with iPad based serious games","authors":"Alejandro Rodríguez Isasi, A. Mendez Zorrilla, B. García Zapirain","doi":"10.4108/icst.pervasivehealth.2014.255327","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4108/icst.pervasivehealth.2014.255327","url":null,"abstract":"The system described in this document consists in the design, development and evaluation of Serious Games/activities for the cognitive rehabilitation and entertainment of elderly people. The main objective of the system is to help this group improve some of their skills, such as spatial vision, memory or attention using puzzles and bingo activities. The mental effort required for assembling the pictures acts as a stimulus to sharpen those abilities, and by playing they increase their attention skills. The set of games monitor all the steps taken by the players, showing them different activities developed for multitouch platforms. The system was tested on a group of 20 seniors. The values obtained indicated some differences between the proposed related to the time used to complete the task and the level of difficulty being the bingo less accepted (only 6 wanted to continue with the highest levels of this activity). Thus, they have less problems with spatial vision than with reading speed or attention.","PeriodicalId":120856,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare","volume":"41 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-05-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123610777","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare","authors":"A. Hein, Susanne CJ Boll, F. Köhler","doi":"10.4108/pervasivehealth.2010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4108/pervasivehealth.2010","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":120856,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare","volume":"83 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-05-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124104910","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}