Animation of 3D avatars for rehabilitation of the upper limbs

Proceedings - 2011 3rd International Conferenceon Games and Virtual Worlds for Serious Applications, VS-Games 2011

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 168-171

  Moya, Sergio ^a   Grau, Sergi ^a   Tost, Dani ^a   Campeny, Ricard ^a   Ruiz, Marcel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

3-D VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENT; 3D AVATARS; ARM MOVEMENTS; INERTIAL SENSOR; NEUROREHABILITATION; REAL TIME; REAL-TIME INFORMATION; UPPER LIMBS; VIRTUAL OBJECTS;

ANIMATION; INERTIAL NAVIGATION SYSTEMS; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER GRAPHICS; SENSORS; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE); THREE DIMENSIONAL; VIRTUAL REALITY;

THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

EID: 80052125725     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/VS-GAMES.2011.32     Document Type: Conference Paper

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