Development of a toolbox for the kinematic evaluation of hands-up video games

Children with cerebral palsy (CP) often have limited upper extremity (UE) control, Virtual reality (VR) is a current technology being evaluated as a form of UE therapy for children with CP, The systems currently available have been developed with games that cannot be graded to match the skill level of children with severely impaired UE control. A novel video game platform, "Hands-Up", has been developed at New Jersey Institute of Technology. The platform features software that allows for the customization of games and encourages users to make purposeful UE movements. To quantify changes and improvement in movement due to increased game play, a MATLAB-based toolbox of functions was developed. The functions include measures of peak velocity, percentage time to peak velocity, number of movement units, and straightness ratio. Data collected during reaching tasks were analyzed to validate the toolbox. The toolbox of functions provides different ways to interpret user intent.

Name thesis:degree_name

Master of Science in Biomedical Engineering - (M.S.)

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Biomedical Engineering

Year

2009

Author dc:creator

• Odle, Brooke Marie

Contributors dc:contributor

• Richard A. Foulds
• Sergei Adamovich
• Bruno A. Mantilla

• Cerebral palsy
• Upper extremeity control
• Kinematic evaluation
• Biomedical Engineering and Bioengineering

Repository record dc:identifier

https://digitalcommons.njit.edu/theses/313

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:digitalcommons.njit.edu:theses-1312