Physio@Home: Designing and Exploring  Visual Guidance and Feedback Techniques for At-home Rehabilitation

Tang, Richard

Physio@Home: Designing and Exploring Visual Guidance and Feedback Techniques for At-home Rehabilitation

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dc.contributor.advisor	Tang, Anthony
dc.contributor.author	Tang, Richard
dc.date.accessioned	2015-09-25T18:24:37Z
dc.date.available	2015-11-20T08:00:41Z
dc.date.issued	2015-09-25
dc.date.submitted	2015	en
dc.description.abstract	Physiotherapy patients learn rehabilitation exercises with the help of a physiotherapist, but are at risk of re-injury while exercising at home. This thesis explores the design of visualizations for guiding patients through physiotherapy exercises at home. I interviewed a physiotherapist to gain knowledge on physiotherapy practices and developed a set of visual characteristics for guidance: plane/range of movement, positions/angles to maintain, extent of movement, and rate of movement. I applied these in the design of movement-guiding visualizations in two prototypes. Zipples was a Microsoft Kinect-based prototype featuring movement recording and playback, supported by a variety of visualizations. Physio@Home was a Vicon-based iteration that featured an annotation tool, an iteratively-designed Wedge visualization, and multiple camera perspectives. I evaluated both systems with laboratory studies and found that participants using Physio@Home could follow exercises with greater accuracy than watching and mimicking video. I conclude with reflections on system limitations and potential future work.	en_US
dc.identifier.citation	Tang, R. (2015). Physio@Home: Designing and Exploring Visual Guidance and Feedback Techniques for At-home Rehabilitation (Master's thesis, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada). Retrieved from https://prism.ucalgary.ca. doi:10.11575/PRISM/27355	en_US
dc.identifier.doi	http://dx.doi.org/10.11575/PRISM/27355
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/11023/2503
dc.language.iso	eng
dc.publisher.faculty	Graduate Studies
dc.publisher.institution	University of Calgary	en
dc.publisher.place	Calgary	en
dc.rights	University of Calgary graduate students retain copyright ownership and moral rights for their thesis. You may use this material in any way that is permitted by the Copyright Act or through licensing that has been assigned to the document. For uses that are not allowable under copyright legislation or licensing, you are required to seek permission.
dc.subject	Rehabilitation and Therapy
dc.subject	Computer Science
dc.title	Physio@Home: Designing and Exploring Visual Guidance and Feedback Techniques for At-home Rehabilitation
dc.type	master thesis
thesis.degree.discipline	Computer Science
thesis.degree.grantor	University of Calgary
thesis.degree.name	Master of Science (MSc)
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