Titulo Estágio
Rehabilitation Games
Áreas de especialidade
Engenharia de Software
Sistemas Inteligentes
Local do Estágio
University of Coimbra, Polo II
Enquadramento
This is a part of a European Project, SwitHome. We intend to help patients who cannot walk for different reasons, to walk again! The join project involves hospitals from Netherlands, Spain and Portugal, as well as UC, IPN and SoftBionics Lda.
A smart insole is a thin pressure film inserted into the shoe in order to measure the pressure map of the foot. The goal of the project is to use this hardware and design games for a smart phone which will be used by patients for rehabilitation at home.
https://sites.google.com/site/fsrlabisr/msc-projects
Objetivo
In this project student will use two smart insoles in order to design rehabilitation games. These games will be then used for rehabilitation of patients with walking disorders.
The rehabilitation games can be roughly divided to two categories. Balance Games (static position) and Walking Games (Dynamic walking). The game can be designed for a smart phone, android/iOS.
Plano de Trabalhos - Semestre 1
1. Design of User Interface
2. Acquire pressure map data
3. Visualization of pressure map data
All of the above is already achieved for a windows application, but not for a smart phone.
Plano de Trabalhos - Semestre 2
1. To design, test and validate the two rehabilitation games
2. Record data in the software and present graphs for medical doctor
Condições
Student should have good programming skills. S/he may use for instance platforms such as Unity or similar to develop simple games, or S/he may use open source games and modifies them.
An interaction with medical doctors will be a part of project. Contacts with medical doctors is already established by the project Supervisor.
Observações
There might be available research/job positions for students who are involved in this project and provide solid progress in this project. Paid research positions may be started at any time in the project or after that based on the students success.
Orientador
Mahmoud Tavakoli
mahmoud@isr.uc.pt 📩