Development and user evaluation of a virtual rehabilitation system for wobble board balance training

Proceedings of the 30th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBS'08 - "Personalized Healthcare through Technology"

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 4194-4198

  Fitzgerald, Diarmaid ^a   Trakarnratanakul, Nanthana ^a   Dunne, Lucy ^a   Smyth, Barry ^a   Caulfield, Brian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER GAMES; VIRTUAL REALITY;

BALANCE TRAINING; INSTRUCTION MANUALS; ORIENTATION SENSORS; PROTOTYPE SYSTEM; UPPER SURFACE; USABILITY EVALUATION; USER EVALUATIONS; VIRTUAL REHABILITATION;

E-LEARNING;

ADULT; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BODY EQUILIBRIUM; COMPUTER INTERFACE; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEMALE; GRAVITY; HUMAN; KINESIOTHERAPY; MALE; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROPRIOCEPTION; REHABILITATION; ROBOTICS; SENSORY DYSFUNCTION; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

ADULT; ALGORITHMS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EXERCISE THERAPY; FEMALE; GRAVITATION; HUMANS; MALE; POSTURAL BALANCE; PROPRIOCEPTION; REHABILITATION; ROBOTICS; SENSATION DISORDERS; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 61849123246     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/iembs.2008.4650134     Document Type: Conference Paper

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