Media: Home exercise programs made effortless using the PhysioTherapy eXercises patient app

A Monitoring System for Home-Based Physiotherapy Exercises

This paper describes a robust, low-cost, vision based monitoring system for home-based physical therapy exercises. Our system contains two different modules. The first module achieves exercise recognition by building representations of motion patterns, stance knowledge, and object usage information in gray-level and depth video sequences and then combines these representations in a generative B...

Home Made: New Media in the Home Mode

This essay investigates the peculiar situation of a new media project which takes as its raw material the home-video archive of a deaf man gone blind. In an attempt to revive this 'lost archive', Planet Usher: An Interactive Home Movie looks to uncover enduring spaces of productivity and, in the process, to make a case for the enduring viability and importance of home modes of production. While...

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Effortless Monitoring of Diet & Exercise for Students

A recent study reports that college freshman gain an average of 4.2 pounds during their first twelve weeks of school [1]. This is over ten times the expected gain of 17-18 year olds and almost twenty times that of American adults. This trend deserves focused attention because obesity is linked to an increased risk of diseases such as hypertension and diabetes [2]. We believe that college studen...

Patient Involvement With Home-Based Exercise Programs: Can Connected Health Interventions Influence Adherence?

Adherence to home exercise in rehabilitation is a significant problem, with estimates of nonadherence as high as 50%, potentially having a detrimental effect on clinical outcomes. In this viewpoint, we discuss the many reasons why patients may not adhere to a prescribed exercise program and explore how connected health technologies have the ability to offer numerous interventions to enhance adh...