Improving rehabilitation process after total knee replacement surgery through visual feedback and enhanced communication in a serious game

B. Maurer; F. Bergner; P. Kober; R. Baumgartner

doi:10.1145/2379057.2379124

Improving rehabilitation process after total knee replacement surgery through visual feedback and enhanced communication in a serious game

B. Maurer
, F. Bergner
, P. Kober
, R. Baumgartner

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Abstract

A common problem during rehabilitation after total knee replacement surgery is a lack of intrinsic motivation to do the necessary exercises at home. Doing the exercises at home without the supervision of a physical therapist raises the risk that patients do not execute the activities in a safe and effective manner. To address this problem, we developed a serious exergame to improve engagement and the efficiency of the rehabilitation process. A team of game developers, physiotherapists and a researcher collaborated to contribute to the design and prototype development. This led to a prototype using Microsoft Kinect as an input device to engage users combined with an individualized setup that provides visual rewarding and corrective feedback to the patient and a communication channel to the therapist to enable performance monitoring. This interdisciplinary process we were engaged in has implications for the development of engaging exergames that communicate clinically relevant performance information to elderly patients through a visual feedback tool.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	SIGDOC '12: Proceedings of the 30th ACM international conference on Design of communication
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery
Pages	355-356
Number of pages	2
ISBN (Electronic)	978-1-4503-1497-8
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/2379057.2379124
Publication status	Published - 2012
Event	30th ACM International Conference on Design of Communication, SIGDOC 2012 - Seattle, United States Duration: 3 Oct 2012 → 5 Oct 2012

Conference

Conference	30th ACM International Conference on Design of Communication, SIGDOC 2012
Abbreviated title	SIGDOC 2012
Country/Territory	United States
City	Seattle
Period	3/10/12 → 5/10/12

Keywords

Communication design
Interdisciplinary process
Serious games
Surgery rehabilitation
Visual feedback
Input devices
Intrinsic motivation
MicroSoft
Performance monitoring
Prototype development
Total knee replacement
Arthroplasty
Design
Knee prostheses
Visual communication
Communication

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Maurer, B., Bergner, F., Kober, P., & Baumgartner, R. (2012). Improving rehabilitation process after total knee replacement surgery through visual feedback and enhanced communication in a serious game. In SIGDOC '12: Proceedings of the 30th ACM international conference on Design of communication (pp. 355-356). Association for Computing Machinery. https://doi.org/10.1145/2379057.2379124

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Maurer, B, Bergner, F, Kober, P & Baumgartner, R 2012, Improving rehabilitation process after total knee replacement surgery through visual feedback and enhanced communication in a serious game. in SIGDOC '12: Proceedings of the 30th ACM international conference on Design of communication. Association for Computing Machinery, pp. 355-356, 30th ACM International Conference on Design of Communication, SIGDOC 2012, Seattle, Washington, United States, 3/10/12. https://doi.org/10.1145/2379057.2379124

Improving rehabilitation process after total knee replacement surgery through visual feedback and enhanced communication in a serious game. / Maurer, B.; Bergner, F.; Kober, P. et al.
SIGDOC '12: Proceedings of the 30th ACM international conference on Design of communication. Association for Computing Machinery, 2012. p. 355-356.

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