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The development of telerehabilitation and virtual assistive devices is an active research area. The delivery of rehabilitation service to a patient’s home or a remote clinic could result in tremendous savings in cost, effort, and human resources. Currently, most existing telerehabilitation systems need some human intervention, and require the patients to place on their body complex and expensive sensors. This work investigates whether the Leap Motion, a low-cost, non-intrusive, motion tracking device, can be a viable source to be used in telerehabilitation and similar applications. Experiments with various hand movements were carried out, with positional and velocity-related parameters tracked, captured, and analyzed.
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Zhang, L., Li, K.F., Lin, J., Ren, J. (2019). Leap Motion for Telerehabilitation: A Feasibility Study. In: Barolli, L., Leu, FY., Enokido, T., Chen, HC. (eds) Advances on Broadband and Wireless Computing, Communication and Applications. BWCCA 2018. Lecture Notes on Data Engineering and Communications Technologies, vol 25. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-02613-4_19
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