Subjective perceptions when using motion tracking systems. A comparison among healthy subjects, individuals post-stroke, and therapists.
Tracking technologies allow users to interact with virtual reality environments. Most research regarding tracking systems has focused on studying their performance parameters. However, even though subjective parameters also determine the responses evoked by the virtual reality experience, little eff...
| Published in: | Journal of Pain Management Vol. 9; no. 3; pp. 291 - 300 |
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| Format: | pictorial research tables/charts Journal Article |
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Nova Science Publishers, Inc.
2016
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ccm&AN=118800361&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: ccm uiTerm: 118800361 longDbName: CINAHL Complete uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: dissinfo: jinfo: jid: 19395914 903P jtl: Journal of Pain Management issn: 19395914 maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: 2016 vid: 9 iid: 3 pid: 1040 pub: Nova Science Publishers, Inc. place: Hauppauge, New York artinfo: ui: 118800361 118800361 118800361 118800361 ppf: 291 ppct: 9 formats: fmt: @attributes: type: P tig: atl: Subjective perceptions when using motion tracking systems. A comparison among healthy subjects, individuals post-stroke, and therapists. aug: au: Lloréns, Roberto Naranjo, Valery Noé, Enrique Parra, Elena Borrego, Adrián Alcañiz, Mariano affil: Instituto Interuniversitario de Investigación en Bioingeniería y Tecnología Orientada al Ser Humano, Universitat Politècnica de València, Camino de Vera s/n, Valencia, Spain sug: subj: Self Concept Wearable Sensors Stroke Patients Psychosocial Factors Physical Therapist Attitudes Therapeutic Exercise Virtual Reality Fitness Trackers Evaluation Questionnaires Step Electromagnetic Fields Human ab: Tracking technologies allow users to interact with virtual reality environments. Most research regarding tracking systems has focused on studying their performance parameters. However, even though subjective parameters also determine the responses evoked by the virtual reality experience, little effort has been made to study their influence. The objective of this paper is to determine the subjective perceptions of healthy subjects, individuals post-stroke, and physical therapists after using three tracking technologies (optical, electromagnetic, and skeleton tracking) to interact with a virtual rehabilitation exercise. Three groups participated in the experiment, involving healthy subjects (n = 19), individuals with stroke (n = 22), and physical therapists (n = 14). Participants belonging to the healthy and stroke groups interacted with a stepping exercise in three 15-minute trials using the three tracking systems. After each trial, participants filled in an ad-hoc questionnaire to report their subjective experiences. Physical therapists monitored 45 training sessions with the virtual rehabilitation exercise, 15 sessions with each tracking technology in randomized order. After the last session, they evaluated the three tracking systems completing another questionnaire. By and large, results showed that healthy subjects and physical therapists mainly preferred the skeleton tracking solution rather than the optical and electromagnetic solution (in that order). However, individuals post-stroke preferred the optical solution to the other options. In conclusion, subjective perceptions and preferences are far from being constant among different populations, thus suggesting that these considerations, together with the performance parameters, should be taken into account when designing rehabilitation systems. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: pictorial research tables/charts Journal Article ougenre: Article language: English refInfo: holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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