Games and Assistive Technologies fOr Rehabilitation (GATOR)

University

Goals

To design games and activities with cutting edge virtual reality and motion tracking technology including Occulus Rift, Leap Motion Controller, and Kinect 2 for low cost and in-home rehabilitation of patients with stroke, cerebral palsy, and traumatic brain injury. The games and activities will be designed to improve hand-eye coordination, motor control, endurance, shoulder strength, range-of-motion, grasp strength, and coordination of grasp and reach.

Issues

Games, embedded systems, virtual reality, motion capture, rehabilitation therapy, assistive technologies, sensors, object recognition, social networks, graphics, multi-media/mobile web applications, databases, user interface design.

Tools and Methods

Design of immersive games with emerging human-computer interaction devices

Seamless motion tracking and sensing

Integrating therapeutic interventions into games

Effective feedback modalities

Data and progress visualization

Web-based/scalable programming

Remote monitoring

Patient-specific adaptations

Machine learning algorithms

Desired Majors

Electrical & Computer Engineering

Computer Science

Occupational Therapy

Prep

Embedded systems, wireless sensors, controls, (web) programming, computer games, HCI/User-interface design, game design, vision processing, machine learning algorithms, (web) programming, developing new rehabilitative technologies, motion analysis, motor (movement) control and learning, neurological recovery, increasing independence of daily activities for individuals with disability