Recent decades brought technological advances able to improve the life quality of people with disabilities. However, benefits in the rehabilitation of motor disabled people are still scarce. Therapeutic processes are lengthy and demanding to therapists and patients. Our goal is to assist therapists in rehabilitation procedures providing a tool for accurate monitoring and evolution analysis enriched with their own knowledge. We analysed therapy sessions with tetraplegics to better understand the rehabilitation process and highlight the major requirements for a technology-enhanced tool. Results suggest that virtual movement analysis and comparison increases the awareness of a patient’s condition and progress during therapy.
Computer-assisted rehabilitation: towards effective evaluation
Hugo Nicolau is pursuing a PhD in Information Systems and Computer Engineering at Instituto Superior Técnico (IST), Technical University of Lisbon (UTL). He hold BSc and MSc from IST, UTL. He is a researcher at INESC-ID in the Visualisation and Intelligent Multimodal Interfaces Group, headed by Professor Joaquim Jorge.
Tiago Guerreiro is pursuing a PhD in Information Systems and Computer Engineering at Instituto Superior Técnico (IST), Technical University of Lisbon (UTL). He hold BSc and MSc from IST, UTL. He is a researcher at INESC-ID in the Visualisation and Intelligent Multimodal Interfaces Group, headed by Professor Joaquim Jorge.
Rita Pereira is pursuing an MSc in Information Systems and Computer Engineering at Instituto Superior Técnico (IST), Technical University of Lisbon (UTL), advised by Professor Joaquim Jorge. She holds a BSc from IST, UTL.
Daniel Gonçalves is a Researcher at the Visualisation and Multimodal Interfaces group of INESC-ID and an Assistant Professor at Instituto Superior Técnico, Technical University of Lisbon. His research interests include information visualisation and human-computer interaction. He has a PhD in Personal Information Management from the Instituto Superior Técnico, Technical University of Lisbon.
Joaquim Jorge is a Full Professor of Computer Science at Instituto Superior Técnico (IST/UTL), the School of Engineering of the Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal, where he teaches User Interfaces and Computer Graphics. He received his PhD and MSc in Computer Science from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, in 1995 and a BsEE from IST/UTL in 1984.
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