title: Mixed reality rehabilitation for stroke survivors promotes generalized motor improvements.
abstract: This paper presents results from a clinical study of stroke survivors using an adaptive, mixed-reality rehabilitation (AMRR) system for reach and grasp therapy. The AMRR therapy provides audio and visual feedback on the therapy task, based on detailed motion capture, that places the movement in an abstract, artistic context. This type of environment promotes the generalizability of movement strategies, which is shown through kinematic improvements on an untrained reaching task and higher clinical scale scores, in addition to kinematic improvements in the trained task.
authors.affiliation: School of Biological and Health Systems Engineering and the School of Arts, Media & Engineering at Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287, USA. mrduff@asu.edu
authors.forename: Margaret
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Duff
authors.forename: Yinpeng
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Chen
authors.forename: Suneth
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Attygalle
authors.forename: Hari
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Sundaram
authors.forename: Thanassis
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Rikakis
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D001696:Biomechanical Phenomena / Q000502:physiology; D003710:Demography; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009043:Motor Activity / Q000502:physiology*; D020521:Stroke / Q000503:physiopathology*; D000071939:Stroke Rehabilitation; D017741:Survivors; D013647:Task Performance and Analysis