A smart virtual glove for the hand telerehabilitation

Computers in Biology and Medicine

Volumn 37, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 1100-1107

  Placidi, Giuseppe ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF L'AQUILA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Haptic gloves; Image analysis; Numerical hand model; Object recognition; Telerehabilitation; Virtual reality

Indexed keywords

BIOMATERIALS; HAPTIC INTERFACES; IMAGE ANALYSIS; OBJECT RECOGNITION; VIRTUAL REALITY;

NUMERICAL HAND MODEL; SMART VIRTUAL GLOVE; TELEREHABILITATION;

LEARNING AIDS FOR HANDICAPPED PERSONS;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; GLOVE; HAND DISEASE; HAND SURGERY; HUMAN; IMAGING SYSTEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REHABILITATION CARE; STROKE; TELEVISION CAMERA;

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CLOTHING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HAND; HUMANS; SOFTWARE; TELEMEDICINE; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 34250886903     PISSN: 00104825     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compbiomed.2006.09.011     Document Type: Article

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