Abstract
In this paper, we describe the design and evaluation of an interactive home-based rehabilitation visualisation system used by a wide variety of ages (users in our studies were aged from 47-89) to undertake rehabilitation in the home following knee replacement surgery. We present the rehabilitation visualization system and the results of a randomized controlled study in which we investigated the usability and feasibility of the system in the home. We found that our users were able to use the system successfully for their rehabilitation with improved rehabilitation outcomes after 6 weeks when compared to the current rehabilitation care. Finally we highlight the lessons learned which will benefit prospective designers of home rehabilitation technology in ensuring successful home evaluations in clinical rehabilitation.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | CHI '14: Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems |
| Publisher | Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) |
| Pages | 2521-2530 |
| Number of pages | 10 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9781450324731 |
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| Publication status | Published - 26 Apr 2014 |
Keywords
- knee rehabilitation
- visualisation system
- surgery