Visual communication interface for severe physically disabled patients

Psychotherapy with physically disabled patients.

With the last decades, health care interventions have been more productively attuned to actualizing the potential for optimal recuperation of every patient. Unique and important contributions of psychotherapy to this effort include: 1) A formulation which synthesizes an understanding of clinical behaviors, reality-based physical limitations and risks with an appreciation of the patient's mechan...

Virtual reality for physically disabled people.

This paper demonstrates how physically disabled people can benefit from the innovative virtual reality techniques. Several specific examples show the applicability of virtual reality to the therapy and rehabilitation of people with various disabilities. In addition, the paper describes how physicians can use virtual reality as an advanced visualization tool for the diagnosis of physical disabil...

Choice Selection Module A Device to Improve Communication for the Physically and Mentally Disabled

Prevalence of Depression among Physically-Disabled Veterans in Northwestern Iran

Psychological trauma may result in depression. Veterans are particularly prone to development of depression. 100 male veterans (39 injured by chemical and 61 by non-chemical warfare) with 30% to 70% of physical disability were compared with 100 age- and sex-matched individuals selected from general population serving as comparison group. The diagnosis of depression was made according to the DSM...

Multimodal Interface for Disabled Persons

MULTIMODAL INTERFACE FOR DISABLED PERSONS S.A. Chhabria and R.V. Dharaskar Department of Computer Science and Engineering, G.H. Raisoni College of Engineering, Nagpur. E-mail: [email protected] Assistive robots have the potential to provide disabled people with effective ways to alleviate the impact of their limitations, by compensating for their specific impairments. In particular, r...