Virtual reality environment assisting recovery from stroke

ABSTRACT

Our virtual environment represents the pre-clinical phase of an ongoing research project using a pneumatically actuated glove, head/arm tracking, and a head mounted display to facilitate hand rehabilitation in stroke survivors. This is a collaborative, interdisciplinary project at the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago involving a team of engineers, researchers, occupational therapists, art therapists and virtual reality artists.

Index Terms

• Applied computing

  • Document management and text processing

    • Document capture

      • Graphics recognition and interpretation

  • Life and medical sciences

    • Consumer health

    • Health informatics

• Computing methodologies

  • Artificial intelligence

    • Computer vision

      • Image and video acquisition

        • 3D imaging

  • Computer graphics

    • Animation

    • Graphics systems and interfaces

      • Virtual reality

  • Modeling and simulation

    • Model development and analysis

• Human-centered computing

  • Human computer interaction (HCI)

    • Interaction paradigms

      • Mixed / augmented reality

      • Virtual reality