title: The design and evaluation of an activity monitoring user interface for people with stroke.
abstract: Usability is an important topic in the field of telerehabilitation research. Older users with disabilities in particular, present age-related and disability-related challenges that should be accommodated for in the design of a user interface for a telerehabilitation system. This paper describes the design, implementation, and assessment of a telerehabilitation system user interface that tries to maximize usability for an elderly user who has experienced a stroke. An Internet-connected Nintendo(®) Wii™ gaming system is selected as a hardware platform, and a server and website are implemented to process and display the feedback information. The usability of the interface is assessed with a trial consisting of 18 subjects: 10 healthy Doctor of Physical Therapy students and 8 people with a stroke. Results show similar levels of usability and high satisfaction with the gaming system interface from both groups of subjects.
authors.forename: Phil
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Hart
authors.forename: Rebekah
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Bierwirth
authors.forename: George
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Fulk
authors.forename: Edward
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Sazonov
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D020407:Internet; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D008991:Monitoring, Physiologic / Q000295:instrumentation*; D009043:Motor Activity; D020521:Stroke / Q000503:physiopathology*; D060388:Support Vector Machine; D014584:User-Computer Interface; D059015:Wireless Technology; D055815:Young Adult