REHAB 2014 - 2nd Workshop on ICTs for improving Patients Rehabilitation Research Techniques

New technologies applied to medicine, such as Virtual Reality (VR), are beginning to cover all its fields, where the field where it is most used is, undoubtedly, Rehabilitation. Virtual reality systems allow simulating aspects of everyday life and providing flexibility in adjusting parameter settings. Intensive training, repeated, task-oriented, cannot always be done in the real world with real objects because the clinical characteristics of the subjects. Virtual Reality can recreate environments as motivated and functional tasks, which in the real world could not be performed with the same accuracy.
Virtual Reality systems allow the magnification and adaptation of the received feedback the patient obtain when he performs a task. Also it allows the program of the intensity and difficulty depending upon the therapeutic objectives and the individual circumstances of each user. Indeed, virtual reality has become very useful for patients where they interact in an imaginary world through different devices such as gloves or robots tool.
This workshop invites authors to submit contributions on concepts like: Virtual Rehabilitation theories, development, applications, techniques or environments where interaction design plays a central role by improving the rehabilitation process at all levels.
Go to the 8th International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare (PervasiveHealth).
TOPICS OF INTEREST
Key issues in this workshop will focus on (but are not limited to):
Virtual and enhanced environments
Motor rehabilitation
Neuroimaging in rehabilitation
Virtual rehabilitation
Clinical assessment
Cognitive rehabilitation
Communication and language
Ambisonics and audio environments
Haptic devices
Sensory impairment
Medical systems
Input devices, sensors and actuators
Multi-user systems for user interaction
Computer access
Virtual humans
Balance, posture and mobility
Communications aids
Tools for architectural/CAD design
Product design, testing and prototyping
Training tools for rehabilitation
Augmented reality applications
Human factors
Rehabilitation robotics
WORKSHOP PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Belinda Lange. Institute for Creative Technologies, University of Southern California
Willem-Paul Brinkman. Delft University of Technology
Mariano Luis Alcañiz. Instituto Interuniversitario de Investigación en Bioingeniería
Beatriz Rey. Universidad Politécnica de Valencia
Christos Bouras. University of Patras
Imre Cikajlo. Univerzitetni rehabilitacijski inštitut Republike Slovenije
Roberto Lloréns. Instituto Interuniversitario de Investigación en Bioingeniería
José Antonio Gil. Universidad Politécnica de Valencia
Mónica Cameirão. University of Madeira
Sergi Bermudez. University of Madeira
Emily Keshner. Temple University
Hermenegildo Gil. Universidad Politécnica de Valencia
Kjartan Halvorsen. Uppsala University
Thalmann Daniel. University of Paul Sabatier
Rosa Maria E. Moreira. Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro
Georgina Cárdenas-López. Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
Evelyne Klinger. French National Research Agency
Ben Challis. Cardiff School of Creative & Cultural Industries
Guillermo Palacios. University of Zaragoza
IMPORTANT DATES
Paper Submission: 21 January 2014
Author Notification: 21 February 2014
Camera-Ready: 14 March 2014
Conference Date: 20-23 May 2014