Paper Info
Title
Impact of Biofeedback in the Motor Rehabilitation of Patients with Acquired Brain Injury
Abstract
This work describes the system SHaRe, an instrumented device that communicates wireless with several computer gaming applications, developed in cooperation of hand rehabilitation experts to focus its use on handgrip strength control for daily use manipulation tasks, in patients with acquired brain injury. In the current implementation, the SHaRe takes the shape of a glass, instrumented with force and inertial sensors. The sensing elements allow the user to monitoring his/her applied handgrip strength to the glass and its orientation, by visual augmented feedback. The grip strength drives the visual deformation of the glass model and auditory effects, added by the glass orientation, providing biofeedback. The task-oriented approach, together with the use of games-type applications, engages the patients on performing the exercises. The system can assume many different shapes based on the designed sensorization, reproducing many different daily use objects to re-educate handgrip strength. SHaRe has been used in pilot studies conducted by hand rehabilitation experts that showed to have impact on the success of rehabilitation activities.
Year
DOI
Venue
2021
10.1007/978-3-030-82529-4_40
ONLINE ENGINEERING AND SOCIETY 4.0
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Smart device, Augmented feedback, Hand rehabilitation, Biofeedback
Conference
298
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
2367-3370
0
0.34
References 
Authors
0
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Paulo Abreu137.92
Maria Teresa Restivo27933.58
Helena Sousa300.34