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. 2012;12(5):5502-16.
doi: 10.3390/s120505502. Epub 2012 Apr 30.

Personalized health care system with virtual reality rehabilitation and appropriate information for seniors

Diego Gachet Páez  1 , Fernando Aparicio, Manuel de Buenaga, Víctor Padrón
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Personalized health care system with virtual reality rehabilitation and appropriate information for seniors

Diego Gachet Páez et al. Sensors (Basel). 2012.

Abstract

The concept of the information society is now a common one, as opposed to the industrial society that dominated the economy during the last years. It is assumed that all sectors should have access to information and reap its benefits. Elderly people are, in this respect, a major challenge, due to their lack of interest in technological progress and their lack of knowledge regarding the potential benefits that information society technologies might have on their lives. The Naviga Project (An Open and Adaptable Platform for the Elderly and Persons with Disability to Access the Information Society) is a European effort, whose main goal is to design and develop a technological platform allowing elder people and persons with disability to access the internet and the information society. Naviga also allows the creation of services targeted to social networks, mind training and personalized health care. In this paper we focus on the health care and information services designed on the project, the technological platform developed and details of two representative elements, the virtual reality hand rehabilitation and the health information intelligent system.

Keywords: ambient assisted living; disability; elders' health care; information access; wellbeing.

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Demographic change according to the foresight of the United Nations. Available online: http://esa.un.org/unpd/wpp/index.htm (accessed on 21 May 2011).
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United Nations, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division (2011). World Population Prospects.
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Naviga's Technology Platform.
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A detailed High Level View of the Common Access Platform.
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Naviga—VR-Hand-Rehabilitation Service. Blue blocks represent the interfaces involved in this service.
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Data Glove Initialization subsystem.
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Health information service for elderly architecture.
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MQL offline query pattern.
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Relevant entity recognition from MedlinePlus for seniors.
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Relevant entity recognition from Freebase for seniors.
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