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Design and Development of ReMoVES Platform for Motion and Cognitive Rehabilitation
No full textExergames have recently gained popularity and scientific reliability in the field of assistive computing technology for human well-being. The ReMoVES platform, developed by the author, provides motor and cognitive exergames to be performed by elderly or disabled people, in conjunction with traditional rehabilitation.
Data acquisition during the exercise takes place through Microsoft Kinect, Leap Motion and touchscreen monitor. The therapist is provided with feedback on patients' activity over time in order to assess their weakness and correct inaccurate movement attitudes.
This work describes the technical characteristics of the ReMoVES platform, designed to be used by multiple locations such as rehabilitation centers or the patient's home, while providing a centralized data collection server. The system includes 15 exergames, developed from scratch by the author, with the aim of promoting motor and cognitive activity through patient entertainment.
The ReMoVES platform differs from similar solutions for the automatic data processing features in support of the therapist. Three methods are presented: based on classic data analysis, on Support Vector Machine classification, and finally on Recurrent Neural Networks. The results describe how it is possible to discern patient gaming sessions with adequate performance from those with incorrect movements with an accuracy of up to 92%.
The system has been used with real patients and a data database is made available to the scientific community. The aim is to encourage the dissemination of such data to lay the foundations for a comparison between similar studies
2019 Remote Evaluation of Rehabilitative Activity and Disability Assessment via Exergames. Workshop IRT 2019 – Innovation in Rehabilitation Technologies
No full textBiophysical and Motion Features Extraction for an Effective Home-Based Rehabilitation
No full textIn this paper, we describe ReMoVES (REmote MOnitoring Validation Engineering System) which is a newly developed platform for motion rehabilitation through serious-games and biophysical sensors. The main features of the system are highlighted: motion tracking capabilities are disclosed and compared with other solutions; the emotional state of the patient is evaluated with heart rate measurements and electrodermal activity monitoring during the execution of the functional exercises planned by the therapist. Preliminary results about the extraction of significant features from motion and biophysical data will be discussed: the personal rehabilitation program is meant to be performed at home by the patient himself while ReMoVES platform should deliver effective reports to the therapist about the training performance
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
2020 Exergame for systemic sclerosis rehabilitation: a pilot study In International Conference on Health Informatics and Medical Systems - HIMS 2020 Springer.
No full textIn this paper, a study on the use of ICT support to help therapists and Systemic Sclerosis (SSc) patients in the recovery phase is described.
The ReMoVES platform is conceived in the field of assistive computing technologies and delivers engaging exergames to be performed in conjunction with traditional rehabilitation both at home and at clinical centers, thus enabling the continuity of care.
The present work refers to the implementation and integration in the ReMoVES platform of standard hand rehabilitative exercises for SSc, that typically involves repetitive movements.
Data related to game sessions are collected and analyzed for assessing the patients' conditions
The SPeRA web Portal for Cooperation Associations and Projects in Africa
No full textThe importance of Organizations and Private Volunteer Projects for International Development Cooperation is widely recognized. However, although there are some websites that collect and describe information on welfare societies, very few are aimed at a detailed description of the projects. In particular, at the Italian level, the associations working for development cooperation in Africa are poorly described on the Internet, and this makes responses to humanitarian needs less efficient than they could be. Indeed, for very fruitful operations, collaborations between associations as well as funding for projects are very productive. Therefore, the dissemination of information and data in a scientific way is crucial in the framework of development cooperation. With this in mind, a web portal was created for the promotion and dissemination of humanitarian projects. It is the result of the joint work of a multidisciplinary team that includes university researchers, technology specialists and volunteers from non-profit associations. It currently places particular emphasis on small Italian associations operating in Africa, aimed at making their voices heard and promoting their activities. This contribution introduces this portal, showing how to insert it in the scenario of humanitarian projects, favoring the use of technologies for development cooperation
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
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