A. Vourvopoulos, John Edison Munoz Cardona, S. Bermúdez i Badia
{"title":"Optimizing motor imagery neurofeedback through the use of multimodal immersive virtual reality and motor priming","authors":"A. Vourvopoulos, John Edison Munoz Cardona, S. Bermúdez i Badia","doi":"10.1109/ICVR.2015.7358592","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICVR.2015.7358592","url":null,"abstract":"Stroke is among the leading causes of long-term disability, leaving an increasing number of people with cognitive and motor impairments, loss of independence in their daily life and with a high societal cost. So far, the development of Brain-Computer Interfaces (BCIs) that translate brain activity into control signals in computers or external devices provide new strategies to overcome stroke-related motor limitations. Recent studies demonstrated the brain's capacity for functional and structural plasticity and recovery even in severe chronic stroke. However, it is not fully clear how we can exploit the neurobiological mechanisms underlying recovery. This is the case for restorative BCI research. There is currently no standardized and accepted treatment for the use of BCIs with patients suffering from acute or chronic motor impairments. In this study we investigated with 9 healthy participants the role of multimodal virtual reality (VR) simulations and motor priming (MP) in a motor imagery BCI training. Our findings show improved BCI performance for VR and MP conditions, as well as the capacity to modulate and enhance brain activity patterns. Our data suggest that both VR and MP can be useful to promote neural activation and neuroplastic changes in the rehabilitation of stroke patients in a motor imagery neurofeedback paradigm.","PeriodicalId":194703,"journal":{"name":"2015 International Conference on Virtual Rehabilitation (ICVR)","volume":"52 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-06-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122752805","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}
Galit Buchs, S. Maidenbaum, A. Amedi, S. Levy-Tzedek
{"title":"Virtually zooming-in with sensory substitution for blind users","authors":"Galit Buchs, S. Maidenbaum, A. Amedi, S. Levy-Tzedek","doi":"10.1109/ICVR.2015.7358613","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICVR.2015.7358613","url":null,"abstract":"When perceiving a scene visually we constantly move our eyes and focus on particular details, which we integrate into a coherent percept. Can blind individuals integrate visual information this way? Can they even conceptualize zooming-in on sub-parts of visual images? We explore this question virtually using the EyeMusic Sensory Substitution Device (SSD). SSDs transfer information usually received by one sense via another, here `seeing' with sound. This question is especially important for SSD users since SSDs typically down-sample the visual stimuli into low-resolution images in which zooming-in to sub-parts could significantly improve users' perception. Five blind participants used the EyeMusic with a zoom-mechanism in a virtual environment to identify cartoon figures. Using a touchscreen they could zoom into different parts of the image, identify individual facial features and integrate them into a full facial representation. These findings show that indeed such integration of visual information is possible even for users who are blind from birth and demonstrates the approach's potential for practical visual rehabilitation.","PeriodicalId":194703,"journal":{"name":"2015 International Conference on Virtual Rehabilitation (ICVR)","volume":"32 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-06-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116006393","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}
I. Maidan, K. Rosenberg-Katz, Y. Jacob, Nir Giladi, J. Deutsch, Jeffrey M. Hausdorff, A. Mirelman
{"title":"Differential neural activation in healthy older adults compared to subjects with Parkinson's disease during motor imagery of walking in virtual environments","authors":"I. Maidan, K. Rosenberg-Katz, Y. Jacob, Nir Giladi, J. Deutsch, Jeffrey M. Hausdorff, A. Mirelman","doi":"10.1109/ICVR.2015.7358572","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICVR.2015.7358572","url":null,"abstract":"The neural correlates of locomotion in complex environments are unclear. Twenty healthy older adults and 20 patients with Parkinson's disease (PD) were asked to imagine walking in different virtual environments in MRI scanner. Whole brain analyses were performed. Between group comparisons revealed that patients with PD had a significantly higher activation already during imagined usual walk. However, comparisons between walking tasks showed increased activation during imagined complex walking tasks only in healthy older adults. This increased activation in patients with PD act as a compensatory strategy that limits the ability to recruit additional brain areas during more demanding walking tasks.","PeriodicalId":194703,"journal":{"name":"2015 International Conference on Virtual Rehabilitation (ICVR)","volume":"27 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-06-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121968969","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":"Keynote lecture 8: Towards a deductive medicine of neurorehabilitation: Validating the distributed adaptive control theory of mind and brain in the clinic and at home with the rehabilitation gaming system","authors":"P. Verschure","doi":"10.1109/ICVR.2015.7358569","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICVR.2015.7358569","url":null,"abstract":"As director of SPECS, a multidisciplinary group of 30 pre-doctoral, doctoral and post-doctoral researchers that includes physicists, psychologists, engineers and computer scientists, Dr. Verschure works on biologically constrained models of perception, learning, behaviour and problem solving that are applied to wheeled and flying robots, interactive spaces and avatars. His aim is to find a unified theory of mind, brain and body through the use of synthetic methods and to apply such a theory to the development of novel cognitive technologies. He has pioneered novel VR based augmented feedback systems that are applied to the rehabilitation of a number of pathologies including stroke, TBI and Alzheimer's disease. Dr. Verschure has developed interdisciplinary research in the domains of technology, cognitive science and humanities. The following list describes the research fields where he has worked most intensely: Cognitive Sciences and interactive systems, Artificial Intelligence, Computational Neuroscience, Mixed/Virtual reality, Hybrid Systems, Robotics, Psychophysiology, Neuro-rehabilitation, Creativity and Interaction.","PeriodicalId":194703,"journal":{"name":"2015 International Conference on Virtual Rehabilitation (ICVR)","volume":"16 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-06-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126658314","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":"Keynote lecture 7: Re-engineering robot-assisted rehabilitation","authors":"R. Gassert","doi":"10.1109/ICVR.2015.7358568","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICVR.2015.7358568","url":null,"abstract":"Dr. Roger Gassert is an assistant professor of rehabilitation engineering at ETH Zurich. He received his M.Sc. degree in microengineering and a Ph.D. degree in neuroscience robotics from the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in 2002 and 2006, respectively. His main research interests include physical human-robot interaction, rehabilitation and neuroscience robotics, assistive technology and the neural control of movement. He is one of the pioneers in the field of neuroscience robotics to investigate sensorimotor control and related dysfunctions following neurological injury, and has made significant contributions to robot-assisted assessment and therapy, with a special focus on sensorimotor hand function. Dr. Gassert has co-authored over 100 peer-reviewed publications and is co-inventor of 8 patents. He is a senior member of the IEEE, member of the foundation board of the Swiss Foundation for Rehabilitation Technology and the Swiss foundation Access for all, as well as Swiss national contact point of the Association for the Advancement of Assistive Technology in Europe.","PeriodicalId":194703,"journal":{"name":"2015 International Conference on Virtual Rehabilitation (ICVR)","volume":"49 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-06-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132481672","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":"Accuracy of kinect for measuring shoulder joint angles in multiple planes of motion","authors":"M. Huber, M. Leeser, D. Sternad, Amee L. Seitz","doi":"10.1109/ICVR.2015.7358612","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICVR.2015.7358612","url":null,"abstract":"The present study aimed to test the validity of upper extremity joint angle measurements with the Microsoft Kinect for shoulder rehabilitation. Results indicate that there are large discrepancies in measured shoulder angles from the Kinect compared to the gold standard (magnetic tracker) and the clinical standard (goniometer). Before the Kinect can be used to measure movements for clinical rehabilitation, understanding its limitations in precision and accuracy of measuring specific joint motions is imperative.","PeriodicalId":194703,"journal":{"name":"2015 International Conference on Virtual Rehabilitation (ICVR)","volume":"810 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-06-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133902915","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":"Incorporation of motor control and motor learning principles into VR applications","authors":"M. Levin, Sandeep K Subramanian, M. Robert","doi":"10.1109/ICVR.2015.7358630","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICVR.2015.7358630","url":null,"abstract":"The primary focus of rehabilitation for individuals with motor deficits is the relearning of specific motor skills and daily tasks. Rehabilitation strives to take advantage of neuroplastic processes during recovery, a process that can be addressed by creating enriched training environments using virtual reality (VR) based simulations. The objectives of this workshop are to review motor control and motor learning principles, to discuss how they can be exploited by VR training environments and to provide examples of how these principles have been incorporated into different VR simulations for improving upper limb motor recovery. The workshop includes a practical component in which participants will design a specific intervention for improving a typical motor problem incorporating motor control and motor learning principles, in both a VR-based and a non-VR-based clinical application. Finally, we will discuss the limitations of the current technologies with respect to their effectiveness and transfer of learning to daily life tasks.","PeriodicalId":194703,"journal":{"name":"2015 International Conference on Virtual Rehabilitation (ICVR)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-06-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130026475","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":"Towards a robotic exoskeleton for remote evaluation of elbow and wrist joints","authors":"A. F. Ruiz-Olaya","doi":"10.1109/ICVR.2015.7358621","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICVR.2015.7358621","url":null,"abstract":"Telehealth assistive technologies constitute a very promising field to improve quality of life. Teleoperated from a distant location, a robot device can become a beneficial tool in health applications, to allow physical remote interaction between specialized personal and a patient. This paper aims at presenting a teleoperated, powered, robotic exoskeleton-based system for real-time evaluation of upper limb function. The telerobotic platform consists in hardware and software for “remote assessment”. The system provides measurements of joint angle and interaction force at the elbow and wrist level. A set of experiments was carried out to evaluate the technical aspects of the system, and preliminary results shows feasibility for remote evaluation.","PeriodicalId":194703,"journal":{"name":"2015 International Conference on Virtual Rehabilitation (ICVR)","volume":"69 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-06-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126034736","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":"Keynote lecture 1: Plasticity following split-brain surgery","authors":"M. Gazzaniga","doi":"10.1109/ICVR.2015.7358562","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICVR.2015.7358562","url":null,"abstract":"Dr. Michael Gazzaniga is the Director of the Sage Center for the study of Mind at the University of California, Santa Barbara. In 1964 he received a Ph.D from the California Institute of Technology, where he worked under the guidance of Roger Sperry, with primary responsibility for initiating human split-brain research. In his subsequent work he has made important advances in our understanding of functional lateralization in the brain and how the cerebral hemispheres communicate with one another. He has published many books accessible to a lay audience, such as The Social Brain, Mind Matters, Nature's Mind, The Ethical Brain, Human and Who's in Charge? Free Will and the science of the brain. Dr. Gazzaniga's teaching and mentoring career has included beginning and developing Centers for Cognitive Neuroscience at Cornell University Medical Center, University of California-Davis, and Dartmouth College He founded the Cognitive Neuroscience Institute and the Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, of which he is the Editor-in-Chief Emeritus. Dr. Gazzaniga is also prominent as an advisor to various institutes involved in brain research, and was a member of the President's Council on Bioethics from 2001-2009. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Science, the Institute of Medicine and the National Academy of Sciences. His new book is Tales from Both Sides of the Brain.","PeriodicalId":194703,"journal":{"name":"2015 International Conference on Virtual Rehabilitation (ICVR)","volume":"117 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-06-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130986863","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}
H. Zatla, Amine Hadj-Abdelkader, Y. Morère, G. Bourhis
{"title":"OPCM model application on a 3D simulator for powered wheelchair","authors":"H. Zatla, Amine Hadj-Abdelkader, Y. Morère, G. Bourhis","doi":"10.1109/ICVR.2015.7358611","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICVR.2015.7358611","url":null,"abstract":"This work aims to contribute to the analysis of the powered wheelchair driving task. We use for this purpose the optimal preview control model OPCM. We study, in particular, the influence of the driving speed on the driver's visible distances measured through an eye tracking system. Experiments were carried out with a panel of healthy persons on a powered wheelchair driving simulator. A case study is given for some subjects whose visible distances were short thus inducing dropouts in their respective OPCM-computed trajectories.","PeriodicalId":194703,"journal":{"name":"2015 International Conference on Virtual Rehabilitation (ICVR)","volume":"130 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-06-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114695019","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}