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We present an application based on X3D technologies for the telerehabilitation of patients affected by neurological diseases. In particular the virtual world is designed to integrate the activity made on NU!Reha Desk product with the activities performed on the virtual world. The main target of our system are patients with heavy neurological disease (people not able to move a forced in static positions because of therapies, etc).
The system is designed to allow the remote monitoring and assessment of the patient’s activities by the staff at the hospital.
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You can find alla information about the project and the Software environment at the web site, http://www.neurovr.org
The X3D specifications and the documentation are available at the Web3D Consortium Web site, http://www.web3d.org/x3d
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Zampolini, M., Magni, R., Gervasi, O. (2008). An X3D Approach to Neuro-Rehabilitation. In: Gervasi, O., Murgante, B., Laganà, A., Taniar, D., Mun, Y., Gavrilova, M.L. (eds) Computational Science and Its Applications – ICCSA 2008. ICCSA 2008. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5073. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-69848-7_8
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