Abstract
Some people require special treatments for rehabilitating physical, cognitive or even social capabilities after an accident or degenerative illness. However, the ever-increasing costs of looking after an aging population, many of whom suffer chronic diseases, is straining the finances of healthcare systems around Europe. This situation has given rise to a great deal of attention being paid to the development of telerehabilitation (TR) systems, which have been designed to take rehabilitation beyond hospitals and care centers. In this article, we propose which features should be addressed in the development of TR systems, that is, they should consider adaptive, multisensorial, physiological and social aspects. For this aim, the research project Vi-SMARt is being conducted for evaluating whether and how different technologies, such as virtual reality (VR), multi-sensorial feedback, or telemonitoring, may be exploited for the development of the next generation of TR systems. Beyond traditional aural and visual feedback, the exploitation of haptic sense by using devices such as haptic gloves or wristbands, can provide patients with additional guidance in the rehabilitation process. For telemonitoring, Electroencephalography (EEG) devices show signs of being a promising approach, not only to monitor patients’ emotions, but also to obtain neuro-feedback useful for controlling his/her interaction with the system and thus to provide a better rehabilitation experience.
Highlights
One of the aims of current society is to improve the population’s quality of life, of the most vulnerable, attending to a range of social, personal and physical disabilities
There are people that, after an accident or degenerative illness, require special therapies aimed at rehabilitating physical, cognitive or even social capabilities. Controlling these therapies is a thorny task, since they have to be constantly adapted in real time according to the patients’ requirements
The Generation of Telerehabilitation Systems. These demands, together with the arrival of new technological solutions, have stimulated the development of new systems aimed at rehabilitations outside the clinical environment by means of the so called telerehabilitation (TR) systems (Brennan et al, 2009)
Summary
One of the aims of current society is to improve the population’s quality of life, of the most vulnerable, attending to a range of social, personal and physical disabilities In this context, there are people that, after an accident or degenerative illness, require special therapies aimed at rehabilitating physical, cognitive or even social capabilities. There are people that, after an accident or degenerative illness, require special therapies aimed at rehabilitating physical, cognitive or even social capabilities Controlling these therapies is a thorny task, since they have to be constantly adapted in real time according to the patients’ requirements. Due to the length of these treatments, as well as the lack of resources and time schedule constraints, some of the planned therapies must be administered away from a clinical environment and without direct supervision
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