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Universal Remote Delivery of Rehabilitation: Validation with Seniors' Joint Rehabilitation Therapy

2014; Taylor & Francis; Volume: 45; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1080/01969722.2014.874807

1087-6553

Gorka Epelde, Eduardo Carrasco, Shabs Rajasekharan, José Manuel Gutiérrez Jiménez, Karmelo Vivanco, Isaac Gomez-Fraga, Xabier Valencia, J. Flórez, Julio Abascal,

Telemedicine and Telehealth Implementation

Abstract Remote rehabilitation applications still have limited deployment. The path to achieve greater user acceptance and adherence lies in the provision of solutions in their real-life context. Such acceptance is gained through flexibility provided in terms of location, client device, interaction means, and content. This article presents a universal remote rehabilitation delivery approach supporting the introduced flexibility needs. Furthermore, an implementation of the approach in joint rehabilitation for the elderly is described. The approach has been evaluated in a real scenario within Donostia Hospital. The usability evaluation results show the validity of the approach and the acceptance of the developed human −computer interaction paradigm. KEYWORDS: Abstract user interfacesinertial sensorsjoint rehabilitationseniorstelerehabilitationuniversal accessuniversal remote console (URC)virtual humans Notes Color versions of one or more of the figures in the article can be found online at www.tandfonline.com/ucbs.