%0 Conference Paper %1 AbdurRahman:2013:MIT:2461466.2461522 %A Abdur Rahman, Mohamed %A Qamar, Ahmad M. %A Ahmed, Mohamed A. %A Ataur Rahman, M. %A Basalamah, Saleh %B Proceedings of the 3rd ACM Conference on International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval %C New York, NY, USA %D 2013 %I ACM %K ACM %P 313--314 %R 10.1145/2461466.2461522 %T Multimedia Interactive Therapy Environment for Children Having Physical Disabilities %U http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/2461466.2461522 %X In this paper, we present an interactive multimedia environment that can be used to effectively complement the role of a therapist in the process of rehabilitation for disabled children. We use Microsoft Kinect 3D depth sensing camera with the online Second Life virtual world to record rehabilitation exercises performed by a physiotherapist or a disabled child. The exercise session can be played synchronously in Second Life. The physical activities of the users are synchronized with their virtual counterparts in the Second Life. The exercises can be recorded as well and made available for downloading to facilitate offline playback. A disabled child can follow the exercise at home in the absence of the therapist, since the system can provide visual guidance for performing the exercise in the right manner. Using the proposed system, parents at home can also assist the disabled child in performing therapy sessions in the absence of a therapist. Following the suggestions of therapists, the developed prototype can track several gestures of children who have mobility problems. Using a single Kinect device, we can capture high resolution joint movement of the body, without the need for any complicated hardware set up. The initial joint-based angular measurements show promising potential of our prototype to be deployed in real physiotherapy sessions. %@ 978-1-4503-2033-7

@inproceedings{AbdurRahman:2013:MIT:2461466.2461522, abstract = {In this paper, we present an interactive multimedia environment that can be used to effectively complement the role of a therapist in the process of rehabilitation for disabled children. We use Microsoft Kinect 3D depth sensing camera with the online Second Life virtual world to record rehabilitation exercises performed by a physiotherapist or a disabled child. The exercise session can be played synchronously in Second Life. The physical activities of the users are synchronized with their virtual counterparts in the Second Life. The exercises can be recorded as well and made available for downloading to facilitate offline playback. A disabled child can follow the exercise at home in the absence of the therapist, since the system can provide visual guidance for performing the exercise in the right manner. Using the proposed system, parents at home can also assist the disabled child in performing therapy sessions in the absence of a therapist. Following the suggestions of therapists, the developed prototype can track several gestures of children who have mobility problems. Using a single Kinect device, we can capture high resolution joint movement of the body, without the need for any complicated hardware set up. The initial joint-based angular measurements show promising potential of our prototype to be deployed in real physiotherapy sessions.}, acmid = {2461522}, added-at = {2015-03-16T22:06:51.000+0100}, address = {New York, NY, USA}, author = {Abdur Rahman, Mohamed and Qamar, Ahmad M. and Ahmed, Mohamed A. and Ataur Rahman, M. and Basalamah, Saleh}, biburl = {https://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/2d3649cddd46e26b818532a721f2502d8/alex_szykman}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the 3rd ACM Conference on International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval}, doi = {10.1145/2461466.2461522}, interhash = {0aa7711f92acba8c186a0c5dd09e8020}, intrahash = {d3649cddd46e26b818532a721f2502d8}, isbn = {978-1-4503-2033-7}, keywords = {ACM}, location = {Dallas, Texas, USA}, numpages = {2}, pages = {313--314}, publisher = {ACM}, series = {ICMR '13}, timestamp = {2015-03-16T22:06:51.000+0100}, title = {Multimedia Interactive Therapy Environment for Children Having Physical Disabilities}, url = {http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/2461466.2461522}, year = 2013 }