title: "Kinect-ing" with clinicians: a knowledge translation resource to support decision making about video game use in rehabilitation.
abstract: Microsoft's Kinect for Xbox 360 virtual reality (VR) video games are promising rehabilitation options because they involve motivating, full-body movement practice. However, these games were designed for recreational use, which creates challenges for clinical implementation. Busy clinicians require decision-making support to inform game selection and implementation that address individual therapeutic goals. This article describes the development and preliminary evaluation of a knowledge translation (KT) resource to support clinical decision making about selection and use of Kinect games in physical therapy. The knowledge-to-action framework guided the development of the Kinecting With Clinicians (KWiC) resource. Five physical therapists with VR and video game expertise analyzed the Kinect Adventure games. A consensus-building method was used to arrive at categories to organize clinically relevant attributes guiding game selection and game play. The process and results of an exploratory usability evaluation of the KWiC resource by clinicians through interviews and focus groups at 4 clinical sites is described. Subsequent steps in the evaluation and KT process are proposed, including making the KWiC resource Web-based and evaluating the utility of the online resource in clinical practice.
authors.affiliation: D. Levac, PT, MSc, PhD, School of Rehabilitation Sciences, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada.
authors.forename: Danielle
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Levac
authors.affiliation: D. Espy, PT, PhD, Health Sciences, Cleveland State University, Cleveland, Ohio.
authors.forename: Deborah
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Espy
authors.affiliation: E. Fox, PT, DPT, PhD, NCS, Department of Physical Therapy, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, and Brooks Rehabilitation, Jacksonville, Florida.
authors.forename: Emily
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Fox
authors.affiliation: S. Pradhan, PT, PhD, Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, Division of Physical Therapy, University of Washington-Seattle, Seattle, Washington.
authors.forename: Sujata
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Pradhan
authors.affiliation: J.E. Deutsch, PT, PhD, FAPTA, Doctoral Programs in Physical Therapy, Rehabilitation and Movement Sciences, Rutgers University, 65 Bergen St, Room 720, Newark, NJ 07101 (USA). deutsch@shrp.rutgers.edu.
authors.forename: Judith E
authors.initials: JE
authors.lastname: Deutsch
mesh_terms: D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D003661:Decision Support Techniques; D006801:Humans; D026741:Physical Therapy Modalities; D057170:Translational Research, Biomedical; D014584:User-Computer Interface; D018910:Video Games