PRESENS: TOWARDS SMART REHABILITATION WITH PROACTIVE SENSING FOR REMOTE AND AUTOMATIC MEDICAL EVALUATION

摘要

Recent advances in hardware, and more specifically sensor technologies, allow us to acquire accurate information of human behaviors and activities in daily life environments. This fact has attracted the attention of a high number of researchers from very different knowledge areas, such as computer science, biomechanics, or medical and health care, among others. In this paper, we outline the goals and developments of the project "Towards Smart Rehabilitation: Proactive Sensing for Remote and Automatic Medical Evaluation". We present the design of an information system to assist physiotherapists in managing and assessing diagnosis tests carried out by patients. The resulting information system, called 'PReSenS' (Proactive Rehabilitation Sensing System), aims at improving automatic evaluation of physical activity in medical environments, and at providing healthcare experts with a tool to acquire and analyze motion data using marker-free solutions such as depth sensor cameras.