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A Robot-Based Tool for Physical and Cognitive Rehabilitation of Elderly People Using Biofeedback

2016; Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute; Volume: 13; Issue: 12 Linguagem: Inglês

10.3390/ijerph13121176

1661-7827

Leire Lopez-Samaniego, Begonya García-Zapirain,

Context-Aware Activity Recognition Systems

This publication presents a complete description of a technological solution system for the physical and cognitive rehabilitation of elderly people through a biofeedback system, which is combined with a Lego robot. The technology used was the iOS's (iPhone Operating System) Objective-C programming language and its XCode programming environment; and SQLite in order to create the database. The biofeedback system is implemented by the use of two biosensors which are, in fact, a Microsoft band 2 in order to register the user's heart rate and a MYO sensor to detect the user's arm movement. Finally, the system was tested with seven elderly people from La Santa y Real Casa de la Misericordia nursing home in Bilbao. The statistical assessment has shown that the users are satisfied with the usability of the system, with a mean score of 79.29 on the System Usability Scale (SUS) questionnaire.