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A Low-Cost Virtual Reality Bike for Remote Cardiac Rehabilitation

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Abstract

Exercise-based cardiac rehabilitation (exCR) is the physical activity component of a multi-disciplinary cardiac rehabilitation program and is an integral step in the care of patients with acute or chronic cardiac disease. However, most patients do not participate in exCR despite evidence for improved outcomes and event reduction. Emerging strategies for improving exCR and overcoming these barriers points toward the use of non-hospital solutions that are based on gaming technologies. This paper presents a novel virtual reality based remote exCR system called MedBike which allows patients to perform a controlled exercise program in the comfort of their own home using a virtual reality gaming experience while being monitored by a remote exCR clinician. The paper describes the various technical aspects of the system and its pros and cons.

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    Pierre Boulanger, Amir Pournajib, William Mott & Stephanie Schaeffer

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  1. University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA

    Jernej Barbic

  2. University of Nottingham, Nottingham, United Kingdom

    Mirabelle D'Cruz

  3. Universität Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany

    Marc Erich Latoschik

  4. University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

    Mel Slater

  5. University of Paris-Sud, Orsay, France

    Patrick Bourdot

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Boulanger, P., Pournajib, A., Mott, W., Schaeffer, S. (2017). A Low-Cost Virtual Reality Bike for Remote Cardiac Rehabilitation. In: Barbic, J., D'Cruz, M., Latoschik, M., Slater, M., Bourdot, P. (eds) Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality. EuroVR 2017. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10700. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-72323-5_10

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