Description

The KINTER project aims to improve the quality of life of people who need physical rehabilitation, specially hemiplegic patients. It involves monitoring using a system based on a low-cost sensor (Microsoft's Kinect) to achieve the following objectives: To manage a schedule including the physical exercises that the person has to complete, following a specific rehabilitation programme. To automatically detect the proper conduction of these exercises using the Kinect sensor and to update the schedule. To register the improvements using the measurements of the reached bending, extension, etc. angles. The developed system controls the Microsoft Kinect device from a PC powered by Windows 8.1 in order to capture the user's movements to guide they and to check the scheduled physical exercises are conducted properly and following the planned number of repetitions. This module is programmed in C# to create a desktop application with an easy and intuitive interface, based on the latest Microsoft interface (Windows Store App). Besides the completion of the suggested exercises, the system registers the detailed parameters (positions and reached angles, exercise duration, etc.) used by the therapist responsible for the person's monitoring so they can follow the improvements. Therefore, the application can be used in rehabilitation processes after a fall, a stroke, an accident, etc. The prototype is already finished and tests are conducted on real patients. The new system applied to rehabilitation can already be used individually and we are studying the interest of connecting this system to the central system that we have already developed within the GIRO group.

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