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The ability to deliver therapeutic healthcare remotely relying on pervasive computing technologies requires addressing real research challenges ranging from sensing people and their interactions with the environment to software abstractions to move data from low-level signals into representations that are understandable and manipulatable by domain experts who are not computer scientists. In this position paper, we inspect the potential for immersive physiotherapy, just one of many potential application of real smart health. The time is right for delivering real services for immersive physiotherapy, as many technological solutions for remote monitoring of patients and their interactions are ready for prime time. In this paper, we take a critical look at remaining tasks, to propose novel concepts for data processing and service delivery of remote physiotherapy applications. We go beyond the obvious integration tasks to uncover real and tangible research challenges that are solvable in the near term and, when solved, will make the vision of immersive physiotherapy possible.
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Roy, N., Julien, C. (2015). Immersive Physiotherapy: Challenges for Smart Living Environments and Inclusive Communities. In: Bodine, C., Helal, S., Gu, T., Mokhtari, M. (eds) Smart Homes and Health Telematics. ICOST 2014. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 8456. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-14424-5_28
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