TY - GEN
T1 - Computer-Assisted Rehabilitation Program - Virtual Reality (CARP-VR)
T2 - 1st International Conference on Virtual and Networked Organizations Emergent Technologies and Tools, ViNOrg 2011
AU - Dores, Artemisa Rocha
AU - Carvalho, Irene Palmares
AU - Barbosa, Fernando
AU - Almeida, Isabel
AU - Guerreiro, Sandra
AU - Oliveira, Bruno
AU - De Sousa, Liliana
AU - Caldas, Alexandre Castro
PY - 2012
Y1 - 2012
N2 - Every year millions of individuals sustain Acquired Brain Injury (ABI) often resulting in physical, cognitive and psychosocial deficits, leading to life-long changes in the quality of life of patients and their families. In the domain of rehabilitation, virtual-reality (VR) technology has assumed a crucial role in the creation of innovative assessment and training programs. The purpose of this study is to present the Computer-Assisted Rehabilitation Program (CARP-VR) after a brief review of the state of the art. CARP-VR was tailored to the rehabilitation of executive functioning and other related cognitive functions in patients with ABI. It consists of virtual environments that simulate real-life contexts in which patients perform various activities that are based on daily situations. The final version of CARP-VR is now ready to be employed, and tests have been designed to validate it as a tool for the rehabilitation of executive functioning and related cognitive functions.
AB - Every year millions of individuals sustain Acquired Brain Injury (ABI) often resulting in physical, cognitive and psychosocial deficits, leading to life-long changes in the quality of life of patients and their families. In the domain of rehabilitation, virtual-reality (VR) technology has assumed a crucial role in the creation of innovative assessment and training programs. The purpose of this study is to present the Computer-Assisted Rehabilitation Program (CARP-VR) after a brief review of the state of the art. CARP-VR was tailored to the rehabilitation of executive functioning and other related cognitive functions in patients with ABI. It consists of virtual environments that simulate real-life contexts in which patients perform various activities that are based on daily situations. The final version of CARP-VR is now ready to be employed, and tests have been designed to validate it as a tool for the rehabilitation of executive functioning and related cognitive functions.
KW - Cognitive rehabilitation
KW - Executive dysfunction
KW - Virtual reality
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84865519192&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-642-31800-9_10
DO - 10.1007/978-3-642-31800-9_10
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84865519192
SN - 9783642317996
T3 - Communications in Computer and Information Science
SP - 90
EP - 100
BT - Virtual and networked organizations, emergent technologies, and tools - First International Conference, ViNOrg 2011, revised selected papers
Y2 - 6 July 2011 through 8 July 2011
ER -