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Kinect-based posturography for in-home rehabilitation of balance disorders

Tomoya Tamei, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan, tomo-tam@is.naist.jp , Yasuyuki Orito, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan, Hiroyuki Funaya, Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan, Kazushi Ikeda, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan, Yohei Okada, Kio University, Japan AND Kio University, Japan, Tomohiro Shibata, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan AND Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan
 
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Tomoya Tamei, Yasuyuki Orito, Hiroyuki Funaya, Kazushi Ikeda, Yohei Okada and Tomohiro Shibata (2015), "Kinect-based posturography for in-home rehabilitation of balance disorders", APSIPA Transactions on Signal and Information Processing: Vol. 4: No. 1, e17. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/ATSIP.2015.17

Publication Date: 28 Oct 2015
© 2015 Tomoya Tamei, Yasuyuki Orito, Hiroyuki Funaya, Kazushi Ikeda, Yohei Okada and Tomohiro Shibata
 
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Balance disorder, Kinect, Wii balance board, Personalized health care
 

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In this article:
I. INTRODUCTION 
II. PROPOSED METHODS 
III. EXPERIMENTS 
IV. DISCUSSION 
V. CONCLUSIONS 

Abstract

Low-cost, compact, and accurate systems for in-home rehabilitation are needed in aging, aged, and hyper-aged groups. In this study, we developed an in-home rehabilitation system for patients with balance disorders by providing visual feedback of postural information in real-time. Our system measures the user's whole body motion and the center of pressure (COP) using a Kinect and Wii Balance Board (WBB). The accuracy of body motion for estimating the anterior folding and lateral bending angles was validated experimentally by comparing the estimates with the angles given by an optical motion capture system. Additional experiments showed that the COP has a small correlation coefficient with the angles, suggesting that WBB is necessary for measuring the COP.

DOI:10.1017/ATSIP.2015.17