Game engines and exergames to guide rehabilitation at home

Abstract

Rehabilitation is now more costly than ever and novel solutions are needed to cope with such increasing costs. Exergames at home can be a viable solution, allowing the patients to exercise in the comfort of their own home while playing simple games. However, to provide all the functionalities that a traditional therapy would, an adequate architecture is needed: the exergames should provide, in addition to the game itself, monitoring, tracking, configuration, adaptation and motivation. We show how integrating computational intelligence inside a game engine, full gamification of rehabilitation sessions can be achieved.