Design of a Central Control System for an Interactive Multimedia-Enhanced Post-Surgery Rehabilitation Space

隨著多媒體互動科技的蓬勃發展，許多研究致力於將多媒體互動科技應用在手術後病友的復健協助上，而i-m-Space便是一個將多媒體互動科技應用在乳癌病友手術後復健的互動式多媒體復健空間計畫。 i-m-Space在經過多年的發展之後，不只是期望可以協助乳癌病友手術後的復健，更希望可以運用多媒體互動科技幫助病友清楚了解他們的生理復健狀況以及心理復原情況。為了達成此一目的我們在i-m-Space中採用了複雜多變化的復健運動系列，包括了三組以放鬆呼吸練習為主的活動以及三組生理復健運動。 然而，在這樣的多媒體互動科技空間中，由於使用了很大量的軟體與感測器，如何將這些異質性的軟體與感測器整合起來是一個極大的挑戰，並且我們希望可以在這些復健運動中導入流程管理的機制，因此我們在這篇論文提出了一個互動式多媒體術後復健空間之中央控制系統設計，並且提出了一些實際的經驗討論。This paper presents the design and the implementation of the central control system in multi-session interactive multimedia rehabilitation space, i-m-Space. The purpose of i-m-Space is to help post-surgery recovery of breast cancer patients and to apply multimedia technology not only to provide patients a clear view of their physical but also the psychological rehabilitation status. To approach this goal, there is a need to involve multiple rehabilitation sessions in such recovery space, including three breathing-based sessions for relaxation training and three sessions for rehabilitation exercise training. Therefore, in such a multi-session oriented, technical-enhanced recovery space, the biggest challenge is to provide a central control system which can manipulate and integrate all communication and information exchanges between each session. In order to successfully conduct i-m-Space, we have implemented a multimedia central control system for i-m-Space project. In this paper, we also present the feedbacks and suggestions from several patients who have preliminary experience of i-m-Space, to try to improve the implementation of i-m-Space system and probably similar studies in the near future