Modern Stroke Rehabilitation through e-Health-based Entertainment
This book describes a new, “e-Health” approach to stroke rehabilitation. The authors propose an alternative approach that combines state of the art ICT technologies ranging from Augmented and Virtual Reality gaming environments to latest advances in
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Modern Stroke Rehabilitation through e-Health-based Entertainment
Modern Stroke Rehabilitation through e-Health-based Entertainment
Emmanouela Vogiatzaki • Artur Krukowski Editors
Modern Stroke Rehabilitation through e-Health-based Entertainment
Editors Emmanouela Vogiatzaki Research for Science, Art and Technology (RFSAT) Ltd Sheffield, UK
Artur Krukowski Intracom S. A. Telecom Solutions Peania, Greece
ISBN 978-3-319-21292-0 ISBN 978-3-319-21293-7 DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-21293-7
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Preface
The ideas presented in this book have been brewing in our minds for several years. Before receiving funding from the European Commission under the Seventh Framework Program, we made several attempts at both the national and international levels. One could say that our proposals did not fit the current needs of the users and the market at the time and/or were too innovative. We leave this for our readers to judge. Certainly, the use of games as incentives for patients to get more involved in their rehabilitation, especially after such serious episodes as strokes has been suggested and tried already and in many different forms, as we have also indicated in this book. Using immersive user interfaces helps patients to exercise their bodies (and minds) while virtual (sometimes also augmented) reality games offer an enjoyable experience allowing users to forget for a moment about their condition. Nevertheless, they can notice significant improvements while having fun. This is the great advantage of the solution that we describe in this book. Certainly, technologies behind the StrokeBack system are not trivial. We have done extensive applied research on se
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