SBIR Phase II: An immersive virtual reality platform for remote physical therapy and monitoring

SBIR 第二阶段：用于远程物理治疗和监控的沉浸式虚拟现实平台

• 批准号: 2304278
• 负责人: Aviv Elor
• 金额: $ 100万
• 依托单位: IMMERGO LLC
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Cooperative Agreement
• 财政年份: 2024
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2024-05-01 至 2026-04-30
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2304278&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: SBIR; Phase; II; immersive; virtual

The broader impact/commercial potential of this Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase IIproject concerns greater affordability, accessibility, and accuracy of physical therapy for patients andtherapists. The product to be commercialized will contribute to developing innovation around immersivetelehealth experiences, exploring the future of work for physical rehabilitation in the metaverse,establishing standards in embodied telehealth, and grounding novel scientific research methods within VRfor healthcare from a California-based startup with the goal of increasing access to care. Establishing aremote immersive virtual platform will provide a means for in-patient success metrics and full-body virtualguidance. Patient throughput potentially could be doubled through remote visits in virtual environmentsand automated physical health documentation. The platform will be designed with accessibility in mindwith patients from "medical deserts," where patient care is significantly limited by hospital capacity,physical distance, doctors per population, and cost. Remote physical rehabilitation tools and predictivephysical therapy analytics will benefit patients without adequate insurance coverage. This technologycould lower hospital visits, enable clinics to remain open during future pandemic periods, decrease costsfor patients and clinics alike, and begin detecting physical health needs earlier to help manage the paceof recovery.The proposed project aims to expand a novel physical rehabilitation telehealth solution through thecontinued research of an instrumented and gamified immersive virtual reality platform for physical therapyand healthcare monitoring. This technology addresses the shortcomings of widely used telehealth platforms (often videoconferencing) where therapists find it difficult to perform common evaluationssuch as movement abilities and balance coordination tests. The solution will expand upon an embodiedtelehealth platform with 3D virtual avatars and predictive AI tools to assess user biomechanics in real-timeextending to full-body assessment while providing normative assessment metrics, creating a goalstandard for remote physical therapy care. The development method will continue to utilize user-centereddesign with a panel of therapists to ensure accessibility and usability of the prototype systems by theirrelevant stakeholders. Such research will incorporate predictive biomechanical analysis to increase thereliability and repeatability of physical therapy measures and exercise programs for remote monitoringat the clinic or the patient’s home. Iterative prototyping with user experience will be conducted toestablish in-patient success metrics and full-body virtual assessment. This innovation will enable greateraffordability, usability, and effectiveness of physical therapy for patients and therapists.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

这项小型企业创新研究（SBIR）阶段的更广泛的影响/商业潜力涉及患者和治疗师物理治疗的可用性，可及性和准确性。要商业化的产品将有助于围绕沉浸式健康经验开发创新，探索元元中的身体康复工作的未来，在体现的远程医疗中建立标准，并从加利福尼亚州的一家基于加利福尼亚的初创公司中的VRFor Healthcare内部的新型科学研究方法扎根，目的是增加了越来越多的初创企业。建立Aroemote沉浸式虚拟平台将为住院成功指标和全身虚拟指标提供一种手段。患者吞吐量可能会通过在虚拟环境和自动化物理健康文档中远程访问来增加一倍。该平台将在“医疗沙漠”中使用Mind的患者进行设计，其中患者护理受到医院容量，身体距离，每个人群的医生和成本的限制。远程的身体康复工具和预测性治疗分析将使患者受益，而无需提供足够的保险。这项技术可以降低医院的就诊，使诊所在未来的大流行期间保持开放，降低患者和诊所的成本，并开始更早地发现身体健康需求，以帮助管理该项目的项目，旨在通过对仪器和游戏化的物理治疗和医疗保健和医疗保健和医疗保健和医疗保健和医疗保健的持续研究来扩展新型的物理康复健康解决方案。该技术解决了广泛使用的远程医疗平台（通常是视频会议）的缺点，在这些平台上，治疗师发现很难进行常见的评估，例如运动能力和平衡协调测试。该解决方案将在具有3D虚拟化头像和预测性AI工具上扩展在体现的telehealth平台上，以在实时延期进行全身评估评估用户生物力学，同时提供正常的评估指标，从而为远程物理治疗护理创造了目标。开发方法将继续使用一组治疗师来利用以用户为中心的设计，以确保其利益相关者的原型系统可访问性和可用性。此类研究将结合预测性生物力学分析，以增加诊所或患者家中远程监测的物理治疗措施和锻炼计划的可重复性和重复性。具有用户体验的迭代原型制作将进行守望的住院成功指标和全身虚拟评估。这项创新将使患者和治疗师的物理治疗能力造成这种创新性，可用性和有效性。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识分子优点和更广泛的影响评估标准来评估我们被认为是诚实的支持。