Intelligent Game Engine for Rehabilitation (IGER)

IEEE Transactions on Computational Intelligence and AI in Games

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 43-55

  Pirovano, Michele ^a,b   Mainetti, Renato ^a   Baud Bovy, Gabriel ^c,d   Lanzi, Pier Luca ^b   Borghese, N Alberto ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^b POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

^c ISTITUTO ITALIANO DI TECNOLOGIA   (Italy)

^d VITA SALUTE SAN RAFFAELE UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

Author keywords

Bayes methods; fuzzy systems; game engine; patient rehabilitation; virtual feedback; virtual therapist

Indexed keywords

ANIMATION; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMPUTER GAMES; FUZZY SYSTEMS; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER GRAPHICS; PATIENT TREATMENT; REAL TIME SYSTEMS;

BAYES METHOD; BAYESIAN FRAMEWORKS; CHALLENGE LEVELS; GAME ENGINE; REAL-TIME FEEDBACK; REHABILITATION AT HOMES; VIRTUAL FEEDBACK; VIRTUAL THERAPIST;

PATIENT REHABILITATION;

EID: 84963786139     PISSN: 1943068X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCIAIG.2014.2368392     Document Type: Article

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