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This work presents the development of an interactive virtual rehabilitation system as an assistant tool to help in the rehabilitation process of lower limbs muscles, specifically focused on children from seven years and older who suffer sicknesses that limit the normal movement of the body. The system is mainly based in algorithms that recognize gestures of the user captured through the Microsoft Kinect 2.0. Furthermore, the experimental results are presented and discussed since the point of view of the usability and the advantages that the proposed system achieves.
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We thank the “Universidad de las Fuerzas Armadas ESPE” for financing the investigation project number 2016-PIC-0017.
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Pruna, E., Corrales, G., Gálvez, C., Escobar, I., Mena, L. (2018). Proposal for Muscle Rehabilitation of Lower Limbs Using an Interactive Virtual System Controlled Through Gestures. In: De Paolis, L., Bourdot, P. (eds) Augmented Reality, Virtual Reality, and Computer Graphics. AVR 2018. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10851. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-95282-6_5
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