Mixed Reality Rehabilitation
The AME Mixed Reality Rehabilitation team has developed a novel mixed reality system for stroke rehabilitation that aims to extend the benefits of mediated rehabilitation through the use of perceptual and interactive arts principles, real-time motion analysis, hybrid (physical-digital) training and computational adaptation of system parameters. Last year, we began a partnership with the Rhodes Rehabilitation Institute at Banner Baywood Medical Center. Our system was installed at the Institute and we initiated a clinical research study that compares our mediated therapy to traditional physical therapy. This study will further inform development of a home based training system that will be used in partnership with Banner Baywood Medical Center as well. As of October 2009, we have recruited 9 stroke survivors to participate in the study and aim to recruit a total of 30 patients. The patients in the intervention group experience 4 weeks of mediated training and the patients in the control group experience four weeks of traditional therapy.
Dash
Dash is an application for creating interactive 3d environments. Dash was originally created to visualize motion capture and motion analysis data in realtime for work being done in the motione project. It is currently used for feedback in the Mixed Reality System for Stroke Rehabilitation project at AME and for interactive visuals in Smallab for the Embodied and Mediated Learning project at AME. Dash provides a simple, object oriented, software foundation for creating interactive systems. A dead simple scene graph rendering system, on top of OpenGL is provided. Some other things that Dash makes easy: Open GL texturing with most popular image formats, Quicktime movies as OpenGL textures (with audio, if you desire), Shadows, using OpenGL Shading Language, sending and receiving data on a local network. There is a small dash wiki with more information here.
