title: Handmade task tracking applied to cognitive rehabilitation.
abstract: This article presents research focused on tracking manual tasks that are applied in cognitive rehabilitation so as to analyze the movements of patients who suffer from Apraxia and Action Disorganization Syndrome (AADS). This kind of patients find executing Activities of Daily Living (ADL) too difficult due to the loss of memory and capacity to carry out sequential tasks or the impossibility of associating different objects with their functions. This contribution is developed from the work of Universidad Politécnica de Madrid and Technical University of Munich in collaboration with The University of Birmingham. The KinectTM for Windows© device is used for this purpose. The data collected is compared to an ultrasonic motion capture system. The results indicate a moderate to strong correlation between signals. They also verify that KinectTM is very suitable and inexpensive. Moreover, it turns out to be a motion-capture system quite easy to implement for kinematics analysis in ADL.
authors.affiliation: Centre for Automation and Robotics CAR, UPM-CSIC, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, José Gutiérrez Abascal 2, 28006 Madrid, Spain. jm.cogollor@upm.es
authors.forename: José M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Cogollor
authors.forename: Charmayne
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Hughes
authors.forename: Manuel
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Ferre
authors.forename: Javier
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Rojo
authors.forename: Joachim
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Hermsdörfer
authors.forename: Alan
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Wing
authors.forename: Sandra
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Campo
mesh_terms: D056044:Actigraphy / Q000295:instrumentation*; D000203:Activities of Daily Living; D000328:Adult; D001072:Apraxias / Q000523:psychology / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D001696:Biomechanical Phenomena; D016022:Case-Control Studies; D015928:Cognitive Behavioral Therapy / Q000295:instrumentation* / Q000379:methods; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000523:psychology / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D008875:Middle Aged; D013577:Syndrome