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Serious…ly! Just Kidding in Personalised Therapy Through Natural Interactions with Games

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Advances in Computer Entertainment Technology (ACE 2017)

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Virtual Reality based rehabilitation is much based on sensing devices that capture and quantitatively assess the patients’ movements to track their progress more accurately. There are a few commercially available and affordable sensors. Among them, Kinect is an important asset to the concept of Natural User Interfaces, which is gaining a wider space and great importance in gaming for therapy approaches. These solutions can create therapy environments that increase the motivation of patients to achieve successful completion of rehabilitation programs that can be very demanding. However, therapists still demand customisable tools towards particular groups of patients. This paper presents “just Physio kidding”, which is a solution based on the use of serious games, natural user interfaces and personalisation to address both physiotherapy and cognitive stimulation therapy. Initially, it was designed for stroke patients and older adults on wheelchairs, then it was adapted to children with special needs. The paper details the game design, its underlying concept and platform, besides presenting the first user study with experts, which points out to the design of a personalised version.

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Acknowledgments

We thank clinic “Cresce com Amor” for providing the support needed for the tests with the end-users. Special thanks to therapist Ana Carolina Bernardo for her particular participation in the jPk design and tests supervision. This research is supported by Instituto de Telecomunicações, IT-IUL, at ISCTE-IUL, Lisbon, Portugal, and Fundação para Ciência e Tecnologia under the project “TailorPhy - Smart Sensors and Tailored Environments for Physiotherapy” with the grant PTDC/DTP-DES/6776/2014.

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  1. Escola Superior de Tecnologia de Setúbal, IPS, Setúbal, Portugal

    Rui Neves Madeira & André Antunes

  2. ISCTE-IUL and IT-IUL, Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal

    André Antunes & Octavian Postolache

  3. NOVA LINCS, DI, Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, UNL, Caparica, Portugal

    Rui Neves Madeira & Nuno Correia

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Madeira, R.N., Antunes, A., Postolache, O., Correia, N. (2018). Serious…ly! Just Kidding in Personalised Therapy Through Natural Interactions with Games. In: Cheok, A., Inami, M., Romão, T. (eds) Advances in Computer Entertainment Technology. ACE 2017. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10714. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-76270-8_50

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