3dui Assisted Lower And Upper Member Therapy

3DUIs are becoming very popular among researchers, developers and users as they allow more immersive and interactive experiences by taking advantage of the human dexterity. The features offered by these interfaces outside the gaming environment, have allowed the development of applications in the medical area by enhancing the user experience and aiding the therapy process in controlled and monitored environments. Using mainstream videogame 3DUIs based on inertial and image sensors available in the market, this work presents the development of a virtual environment and its navigation through lower member captured gestures for assisting motion during therapy. © 2012 The authors and IOS Press. All rights reserved.173521523Bowman, D.A., Coquillart, S., Froehlich, B., Hirose, M., Kitamura, Y., Kiyokawa, K., Stuerzlinger, W., 3D user interfaces: New directions and perspectives (2008) IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, 28, pp. 20-36Laviola, J.J., Bringing VR and spatial 3D interaction to the masses through video games (2008) IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, 28, pp. 10-15Gupta, A., O'Malley, M.K., Design of a haptic arm exoskeleton for training and rehabilitation (2006) IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics, 11, pp. 280-289Suma, E.A., Lange, B., Rizzo, A., Krum, D.M., Bolas, M., (2011) FAAST: The Flexible Action and Articulated Skeleton Toolkit, pp. 247-248Gallo, L., De Pietro, G., Coronato, A., Marra, I., Toward a natural interface to virtual medical imaging environments (2008) AVI '08 Proceedings of the Working Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces, pp. 429-432Guo, C., Sharlin, E., Exploring the use of tangible user interfaces for human-robot interaction: A comparative study (2008) CHI '08 Proceeding of the Twenty-sixth Annual SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, pp. 121-130Rizzo, A., Kim, G.J., A SWOT analysis of the field of virtual reality rehabilitation and therapy (2005) Presence: Teleoper. Virtual Environ., 14, pp. 119-14