Designing Virtual Environments for Brain Injury Rehabilitation
نویسنده
چکیده
..................................................................................................... III SAMMANFATTNING ...................................................................................... V ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS............................................................................ VII OTHER WORK BY THE RESPONDENT....................................................IX TABLE OF CONTENTS................................................................................... X LIST OF INCLUDED PAPERS ......................................................................XI
منابع مشابه
Modelling Ecological Cognitive Rehabilitation Therapies for Building Virtual Environments in Brain Injury.
BACKGROUND Brain Injury (BI) has become one of the most common causes of neurological disability in developed countries. Cognitive disorders result in a loss of independence and patients' quality of life. Cognitive rehabilitation aims to promote patients' skills to achieve their highest degree of personal autonomy. New technologies such as virtual reality or interactive video allow developing r...
متن کاملDesigning Co-located Tabletop Interaction for Rehabilitation of Brain Injury
This paper surveys emerging design research on co-located group interaction with tabletop displays as an approach toward developing an upperlimb movement rehabilitation system for acquired brain injury (ABI). Traditional approaches and newer virtual reality interventions for physical therapy tend to focus on individuals interacting one-on-one with a therapist in a clinical space – this is both ...
متن کاملVirtual city for cognitive rehabilitation
Virtual Reality technology offers opportunities to create new products, which could be applied to the cognitive rehabilitation of people with acquired brain injury or neurological/psychiatric disorders. The effects provided by Virtual Environments (VE) stimulate cerebral neuroplastic changes, enhancing the rehabilitation process. This article discusses issues related to this field and presents ...
متن کاملUse of a virtual-reality town for examining route-memory, and techniques for its rehabilitation in people with acquired brain injury
Route learning difficulties are a common consequence of acquired brain injury, and virtual environments provide a novel tool for researching this area. A pilot study demonstrated the ecological validity of a non-immersive virtual town, showing performance therein to correlate well with real-world route learning performance. The first patient study found that a rehabilitation strategy known as ‘...
متن کاملA virtual reality environment for evaluation of a daily living skill in brain injury rehabilitation: reliability and validity.
OBJECTIVE To establish the stability and validity of information collected in a virtual reality environment from persons with traumatic brain injury (TBI). DESIGN Prospective correlation design to examine 3-week test-retest results for equivalence reliability between computer-simulated and natural environments. SETTING A residential rehabilitation center for brain injury. PARTICIPANTS Fif...
متن کاملذخیره در منابع من
با ذخیره ی این منبع در منابع من، دسترسی به آن را برای استفاده های بعدی آسان تر کنید
عنوان ژورنال:
دوره شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2003