STTR Phase I: Developing a Mixed Reality Rehabilitation System

STTR 第一阶段：开发混合现实康复系统

• 批准号: 0637178
• 负责人: Mark Wiederhold
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: The Virtual Reality Medical Center
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2007
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2007-01-01 至 2007-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0637178&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: STTR; Phase; Developing; Mixed; Reality

This Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Phase I research project investigates the feasibility of creating a mixed reality (MR) haptics-based virtual reality system that will aid the physical rehabilitation of individuals with upper extremity disabilities. This MR rehabilitation system will include both hardware and software designed to induce neuroplastic cortical changes, increase mobility, and raise upper extremity related activities of daily living in disabled patients. The goal of this project is to address the technical issues of creating such a system, evaluating it with a human factors analysis, and developing a commercial prototype. Additionally, this project will increase the understanding of state-of-the-art alternatives and/or adjuncts to traditional rehabilitation therapy for disabled patients.This project will lead to the development of new software and hardware that can be used for further discoveries and technological developments in virtual/augmented/mixed reality systems. Of the over twelve million families in the U.S. alone that have members with a physical disability, this project will pave the way for the development of future rehabilitation systems to help this broad and underserved population, add to the public health knowledge base that could help other physically disabled people in the future, and provide the commercial rehabilitation market a new tool for upper extremity physical rehabilitation that is both enjoyable and more effective than current physical rehabilitation methods. By increasing disabled patients' upper extremity mobility, this MR system will also increase their activities of daily living and their ability to use the internet to participate in online communities.

这个小型企业技术转让（STTR）第一阶段研究项目调查了创建基于混合现实（MR）触觉的虚拟现实系统的可行性，该系统将有助于上肢残疾人士的身体康复。该MR康复系统将包括硬件和软件，旨在诱导神经可塑性皮质变化，增加活动性，并提高残疾患者上肢相关的日常生活活动。该项目的目标是解决创建这样一个系统的技术问题，通过人为因素分析对其进行评估，并开发商业原型。此外，该项目将增加对残疾患者传统康复治疗的最新替代方案和/或替代品的理解，该项目将导致新软件和硬件的开发，可用于虚拟/增强/混合现实系统的进一步发现和技术发展。仅在美国就有超过1200万个家庭有身体残疾的成员，该项目将为未来康复系统的发展铺平道路，以帮助这一广泛和服务不足的人群，增加公共卫生知识库，以便在未来帮助其他身体残疾人，并且为商业康复市场提供了一种用于上肢身体康复的新工具，该工具既令人愉快又比当前的身体康复方法更有效。通过增加残疾患者的上肢活动能力，该MR系统还将增加他们的日常生活活动以及他们使用互联网参与在线社区的能力。