Design Aspects for Rehabilitation Games for MS Patients
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Computer-supported rehabilitation can benefit many groups of patients. However, when designing such a therapy, it is important to take the characteristics of the patient population and the wishes of the therapists involved into account. This paper therefore focuses on the requirements of rehabilitation games for Multiple Sclerosis patients. As we have created a system for rehabilitating Multiple Sclerosis, based on a virtual environment with force feedback, we will discuss how these requirements can be met using the rehabilitation system as an example.
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تاریخ انتشار 2010