An X3D approach to neuro-rehabilitation

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 5073 LNCS, Issue PART 2, 2008, Pages 78-90

  Zampolini, Mauro ^a   Magni, Riccardo ^b   Gervasi, Osvaldo ^c  

^a Foligno Hospital   (Italy)

^b Pragma Engineering   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PERUGIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VIRTUAL REALITY;

NEUROLOGICAL DISEASES; REMOTE MONITORING; STATIC POSITIONS; TELEREHABILITATION; VIRTUAL WORLDS;

APPLICATIONS;

EID: 54249084179     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-69848-7_8     Document Type: Conference Paper

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23. You can find alla information about the project and the Software environment at the web site, http://www.neurovr.org
24. The X3D specifications and the documentation are available at the Web3D Consortium Web site, http://www.web3d.org/x3d