Título
LeaPhysio: games enhanced physical rehabilitation
Autor
Lourenço, Filipe da Costa Pereira
Resumo
en
In certain areas of the medical sciences, particularly in the field of physiotherapy, there is
increasing needs on objective evaluation of the rehabilitation progress that creates new
opportunities to the application of the ICT. As part of the new technologies the serious games
are ones that can help the patient in the way of motivation that may help during recovery
process. The dissertation describes the design, implementation and testing of "LeaPhysio -
Games Enhanced Physical Rehabilitation system". This system may be used by the
physiotherapists and patients during hand and finger rehabilitation process. Using highly
interactive games, developed for Leap Motion controller natural user interfaces, it's possible
to assess the patient's performance throughout different physical activities. Through the
games, developed in Unity 3D, with controller support, it’s possible to obtain the patient
performance data during the various training sessions. All information regarding training the
established training plans, results and other data is stored on a remote server. The stored
information can be accessed through a mobile application, developed in Android, for the
physiotherapist, mobile application that can be also used for configuration of the serious
games.
The use of serious games allows the patient with motor impairments, produce a dynamic
interaction and a different approach in the execution of traditional exercises in recovery
treatment.
The system allows an unlimited number of training sessions to be performed, which can be
consulted at any time through the mobile application. In this way, it's possible to visualize
historical values, and to compare the results of the different training sessions, analyzing their
evolution.