Modern Stroke Rehabilitation through e-Health-based Entertainment

This book is a joint effort of a number of people involved in the FP7-StrokeBack project, representing different companies and describing their respective achievements in this publication. It is a multi-disciplinary team, which has dealt with advanced research and development in diverse technological areas, from wireless sensor networks including middleware and security issues (IHP, Intracom Telecom and Meytec), signal processing for body movement tracing (University of Southampton and RFSAT Ltd), decision support and human computer interfaces for serious games (University of Potsdam, University of Pannonia and RFSAT Ltd) and rehabilitation training with patients (Brandenburg Clinic). The names of people involved can be found in the respective chapters. The efforts of the whole team have been coordinated by Dr Artur Krukowski from Intracom Telecom from Greece and Mrs Emmanouela Vogiatzaki from RFSAT Ltd from the United Kingdom.Dr Krukowski is a senior engineer and research projects manager with over twenty years of experience in such technological areas as Digital Signal Processing (DSP) for telecommunication systems, ultra-low power embedded wireless sensing devices, Digital Audio (DAB) and Video Broadcasting (DVB), computer and network security, satellite (GNSS) and wireless positioning technologies, Smart Critical Infrastructures, Building Management Systems and GIS information systems. He is a frequent reviewer of IEEE journals and conferences, often acting as external expert for many international research projects and as reviewer/rapporteur for proposal submitted for funding to national and European Research Framework programs. He is a Steering Board member of the Networked Media (NEM) European Technology Platform (ETP) and Industrial Management Group for Security research (IMG-S).Mrs Vogiatzaki coordinates research and development activities of the “Media for Performing Arts” department of RFSAT Ltd. She is also associated with the University of Peloponnesus in Greece. She focuses in her research and teaching on the impact of technologies on human-machine interfaces and especially on Culture and Performing Arts. Areas that she investigates include media broadcasting, collaborative environments employing augmented reality and virtual reality settings, body motion tracking and immersive user interfaces, cyber-physical systems, seamless mix of virtual elements with fully-immersive environments, tele-presence and immersive-reality systems, micro-embedded sensing, services and applications.

• Motivation, Market and European Perspective.- Requirements and Conceptual Architecture.- Data Flow Driven BAN: Architecture and Algorithms.- Body Area Sensing Networks for Physiological Monitoring.- Motivating Rehabilitation through Competitive Gaming.- Kinect-Based Approach to Upper Limb Rehabilitation.- Virtual Reality Gaming with Immersive User Interfaces.- Personal Health Record based e-Health Service Platform.- Prototyping and Business Potential.- Evaluations with Patients and Lessons Learned.