Building Social Telerehabilitation Services

Abstract

This paper focuses on the use of ICT in social rehabilitation, reporting on the research activity of the Latvian national science program VPP INOSOCTEREHI, a new three year multidisciplinary project on social telerehabilitation, conducted by four Latvian Universities (Rezekne University, Latvia University, Riga Technical University, and Liepaja University).The general project objective is presented, and the activities aimed at the creation of a portable, inexpensive balance disorder assessment system are illustrated.