{"id":1909,"date":"2022-01-03T14:12:23","date_gmt":"2022-01-03T19:12:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/groups.cs.umass.edu\/nmahyar\/?p=1909"},"modified":"2022-01-03T14:12:23","modified_gmt":"2022-01-03T19:12:23","slug":"rehabilitation-games-in-real-world-clinical-settings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/groups.cs.umass.edu\/nmahyar\/2022\/01\/03\/rehabilitation-games-in-real-world-clinical-settings\/","title":{"rendered":"Rehabilitation Games in Real-World Clinical Settings"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h1 class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-heading\"><strong>Rehabilitation Games in Real-World Clinical Settings<\/strong><\/h1>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"338\" height=\"230\" src=\"https:\/\/groups.cs.umass.edu\/nmahyar\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2022\/01\/physicalAssistance1_cropped_subbed-e1641226740470.png\" alt=\"A person engaged in a rehabilitation game. The person reaches from out of frame toward a target. There is text on top of the image that says: Directing attention to the reaching target via physical assistance.\" class=\"wp-image-1898\" srcset=\"https:\/\/groups.cs.umass.edu\/nmahyar\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2022\/01\/physicalAssistance1_cropped_subbed-e1641226740470.png 338w, https:\/\/groups.cs.umass.edu\/nmahyar\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2022\/01\/physicalAssistance1_cropped_subbed-e1641226740470-300x204.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 338px) 100vw, 338px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong>Led by:\u00a0<\/strong>Hee-Tae Jung, Taiwoo Park, Narges Mahyar, Sungji Park, Taekyeong Ryu, Yangsoo Kim, and Sunghoon Ivan Lee<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Related Links:<\/strong><br><a href=\"https:\/\/dl.acm.org\/doi\/abs\/10.1145\/3418197\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/dl.acm.org\/doi\/abs\/10.1145\/3418197\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"2000\" class=\"wp-image-1508\" style=\"width: 18px\" src=\"https:\/\/groups.cs.umass.edu\/nmahyar\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2020\/12\/pdf.png\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/groups.cs.umass.edu\/nmahyar\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2020\/12\/pdf.png 2000w, https:\/\/groups.cs.umass.edu\/nmahyar\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2020\/12\/pdf-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/groups.cs.umass.edu\/nmahyar\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2020\/12\/pdf-1024x1024.png 1024w, https:\/\/groups.cs.umass.edu\/nmahyar\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2020\/12\/pdf-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/groups.cs.umass.edu\/nmahyar\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2020\/12\/pdf-768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/groups.cs.umass.edu\/nmahyar\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2020\/12\/pdf-1536x1536.png 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" \/> &#8220;Rehabilitation Games in Real-World Clinical Settings: Practices, Challenges, and Opportunities&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Upper-limb impairments due to stroke can severely affect the quality of life in patients. Scientific evidence supports that repetitive rehabilitation exercises can improve motor ability in stroke patients. Rehabilitation games gained tremendous interest among researchers and clinicians because of their potential to make the seemingly mundane, enduring rehabilitation therapies more engaging. However, routine and longitudinal use of rehabilitation games in real-world clinical settings has not been investigated in depth. Particularly, we know little about current practices, challenges, and their potential impacts on therapeutic outcomes. To address this gap, we established a partnership with a rehabilitation hospital where game-assisted rehabilitation was routinely employed over a 2-year period. We then conducted an observational study, in which we observed 11 game-assisted therapy sessions and interviewed 15 therapists who moderated the therapy. Significant findings include (1) different engagement patterns of stroke patients in game-assisted therapy, (2) imperative roles of therapists in moderating games and challenges that therapists face during game-assisted therapy, and (3) lack of support for therapists in delivering patient-centered, personalized therapy to individual stroke patients. Furthermore, we discuss design implications for more effective rehabilitation game therapies that take into consideration both patients and therapists and their specific needs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rehabilitation Games in Real-World Clinical Settings Led by:\u00a0Hee-Tae Jung, Taiwoo Park, Narges Mahyar, Sungji Park, Taekyeong Ryu, Yangsoo Kim, and Sunghoon Ivan Lee Related Links: &#8220;Rehabilitation Games in Real-World Clinical Settings: Practices, Challenges, and Opportunities&#8221; Upper-limb impairments due to stroke can severely affect the quality of life in patients. Scientific evidence supports that repetitive rehabilitation &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/groups.cs.umass.edu\/nmahyar\/2022\/01\/03\/rehabilitation-games-in-real-world-clinical-settings\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Rehabilitation Games in Real-World Clinical Settings<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":52,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"aside","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-aside","hentry","category-project-pages","post_format-post-format-aside"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/groups.cs.umass.edu\/nmahyar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1909","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/groups.cs.umass.edu\/nmahyar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/groups.cs.umass.edu\/nmahyar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/groups.cs.umass.edu\/nmahyar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/52"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/groups.cs.umass.edu\/nmahyar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1909"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/groups.cs.umass.edu\/nmahyar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1909\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1910,"href":"https:\/\/groups.cs.umass.edu\/nmahyar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1909\/revisions\/1910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/groups.cs.umass.edu\/nmahyar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/groups.cs.umass.edu\/nmahyar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/groups.cs.umass.edu\/nmahyar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}