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Hand Rehabilitation with Toys with Embedded Sensors

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Converging Clinical and Engineering Research on Neurorehabilitation II

Part of the book series: Biosystems & Biorobotics ((BIOSYSROB,volume 15))

Abstract

We describe here a novel platform for hand rehabilitation through exer-games. It is based on a mobile device on which the game is run combined with a modular adaptive architecture that senses fingers pressure and communicates with the mobile device in real-time. Exer-games designed to increase fingers mobility are plaid with the device touch-screen display. Fingers force is trained through exer-games whose input is the pressure exerted by the patient on an adequate object. The object hides a modular micro-architecture that samples pressure and transmit it in real-time, through wireless connection, to the device. Preliminary usability results from thirteen children and their parents are reported.

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  1. Applied Intelligent Systems Lab (http://ais-lab.di.unimi.it) of the Department of Computer Science, Università degli Studi di Milano, Milan, Italy

    N. A. Borghese, R. Mainetti & J. Essenziale

  2. San Giuseppe MultiMedica University Hospital and Università degli Studi di Milano, Milan, Italy

    G. Pajardi

  3. San Giuseppe MultiMedica Hospital, Milan, Italy

    E. Cavalli & E. M. Mancon

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Correspondence to N. A. Borghese .

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  1. Cajal Institute, Spanish National Research Council Cajal Institute, Madrid, Spain

    Jaime Ibáñez

  2. Cajal Institute, Spanish National Research Council Cajal Institute, Madrid, Spain

    José González-Vargas

  3. Avda. de la Universidad s/n, Universidad Miguel Hernández de Elche Avda. de la Universidad s/n, Elche, Spain

    José María Azorín

  4. Cullen College of Engineering, University of Houston Cullen College of Engineering, Houston, USA

    Metin Akay

  5. Cajal Institute, Spanish National Research Council Cajal Institute, Madrid, Spain

    José Luis Pons

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Borghese, N.A., Mainetti, R., Essenziale, J., Cavalli, E., Mancon, E.M., Pajardi, G. (2017). Hand Rehabilitation with Toys with Embedded Sensors. In: Ibáñez, J., González-Vargas, J., Azorín, J., Akay, M., Pons, J. (eds) Converging Clinical and Engineering Research on Neurorehabilitation II. Biosystems & Biorobotics, vol 15. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-46669-9_71

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