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Serious Game and Wearable Haptic Devices for Neuro Motor Rehabilitation of Children with Cerebral Palsy

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Converging Clinical and Engineering Research on Neurorehabilitation II

Part of the book series: Biosystems & Biorobotics ((BIOSYSROB,volume 15))

Abstract

Cerebral palsy (CP) is a group of disorders that affect the development of movement and posture, resulting in limited activities. To optimize pediatric neuro-rehabilitation and to complement conventional occupational therapies, serious game based therapies for upper limb (UL) rehabilitation have been developed or adapted for the pediatric field during recent years. In this work, we present the design and development of UL rehabilitation scenario for CP patients, based on Serious Games (SG) and enhanced by immersive virtual reality (VR) with haptic feedback to increase engagement and provide rich, congruent multi-sensory feedback during virtual interaction.

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Acknowledgments

This work has been funded from the EU FP7 project n. 601165 WEARHAP “WEARable HAPtics for robots and humans”.

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  1. PERCRO Laboratory, Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Pisa, Italy

    Ilaria Bortone, Daniele Leonardis, Massimiliano Solazzi, Caterina Procopio & Antonio Frisoli

  2. Neurorehabilitation Unit, Department of Neuroscience, University Hospital of Pisa, Pisa, Italy

    Alessandra Crecchi, Lucia Briscese, Paolo Andre & Luca Bonfiglio

  3. University of Siena, Siena, Italy

    Paolo Andre

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  1. Cajal Institute, Spanish National Research Council Cajal Institute, Madrid, Spain

    Jaime Ibáñez

  2. Cajal Institute, Spanish National Research Council Cajal Institute, Madrid, Spain

    José González-Vargas

  3. Avda. de la Universidad s/n, Universidad Miguel Hernández de Elche Avda. de la Universidad s/n, Elche, Spain

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  4. Cullen College of Engineering, University of Houston Cullen College of Engineering, Houston, USA

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  5. Cajal Institute, Spanish National Research Council Cajal Institute, Madrid, Spain

    José Luis Pons

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Bortone, I. et al. (2017). Serious Game and Wearable Haptic Devices for Neuro Motor Rehabilitation of Children with Cerebral Palsy. In: Ibáñez, J., González-Vargas, J., Azorín, J., Akay, M., Pons, J. (eds) Converging Clinical and Engineering Research on Neurorehabilitation II. Biosystems & Biorobotics, vol 15. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-46669-9_74

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