Persuasive Game-based Physical Therapy

基于游戏的理疗-利用虚拟游戏、运动跟踪传感器和 循证治疗-已被证明提供了一种替代治疗服务的方式 客户。通过基于Kinect的开发，Jint onix彻底改变了物理治疗的提供方式 游戏和治疗工具，使完成体育锻炼更具吸引力，同时 提供对病人进展情况的评估和反馈。尽管他们在游戏基础上的投资不断增加 治疗，一个主要的挑战仍然是如何设计游戏，以激励患者继续治疗 需要长期的物理治疗才能达到预期的治疗效果。几十年来 人机交互和说服技术领域的研究表明，交互 技术可以设计为说服、激励、提高参与度、采用率和忠诚度 任务。拟议的项目将探索设计具有说服力的界面元素，以支持技术 支持长期坚持的物理治疗，即在他们的家里和外面严密地 监测治疗环境。在与Jint onix的合作中，我们将迭代设计和评估 可嵌入其系统中的具有说服力的社交用户界面元素的原型，以促进 长期接触。根据我们的设计和评估努力，公司将获得技术支持 了解如何开发这些类型的系统(特别是支持的用户界面元素 参与度)，以及详细的用户实践，以指导他们的设计。这将直接帮助Jintonix推动他们的发展 走向以家庭为基础的物理治疗。由于技术支持的大规模扩散 物理疗法，这项研究的成功完成将导致技术创新，将受益 不仅是Jintonix，还有其他支持物理治疗的技术利益相关者--技术开发商， 医疗保健专业人员和患者。加拿大政府将从低成本的方法中受益 设计有效的技术支持的物理治疗。

Game-based physical therapy - which harnesses the power of virtual games, motion tracking sensors, and evidence-based treatments - have been shown to provide an alternative way of delivering therapy services to clients. Jintronix has revolutionized the delivery of physical therapy through the development of Kinect-based games and therapy tools that make the completion of physical exercises more engaging while at the same time providing assessment and feedback on the patient's progress. Despite their increasing investment in game-base therapy, a major challenge remains how to design games that will motivate patients to continue with their physical therapy over the long term that is required to achieve the desired treatment outcomes. Decades of research in the field of Human-Computer Interaction and Persuasive Technology have shown that interactive technologies can be designed to persuade, motivate, increase engagement, adoption, and adherence to certain tasks. The proposed project will explore the design of persuasive interface elements for technology-enabled physical therapy that support long-term adherence "in the wild", that is, in their homes and outside of tightly monitored therapy environments. In collaboration with Jintronix, we will iteratively design and evaluate prototype persuasive and social user-interface elements that can be embedded in their systems to promote long-term engagement. Based on our design and evaluation efforts, the company will receive technical understandings of how to develop these types of systems, (in particular, user interface elements for sustaining engagement), and detailed user practices to inform their designs. This will directly aid Jintronix in their push towards home-based delivery of physical therapy. Due to the massive proliferation of technology-enabled physical therapy, successful completion of this research will lead to technological innovation that will benefit not only Jintronix, but other technology-enabled physical therapy stake holders-technology developers, healthcare professionals, and patients. The Canadian Government will benefit from low-cost approaches for designing effective technology-enabled physical therapy.