Who and where are we

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Who and where are we

• Presenter
• Tonny Jæger, Development-physiotherapist and
  Master of Information Technology
• From Funen hospital
• Birgitte E Mathiessen
• Peder Jest,
• Niels E. Pedersen
• From Maersk Mc-Kinney Møller Institute for
  Production Tech. University of Southern Denmark
• Henrik Hautop Lund
• From Entertainment Robotics
• Thomas Klitbo
• From MedCom
• Lars Hulbæk

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Once upon a time

• In the summer 2000, professor Henrik Hautop
  Lund and Thomas Klitbo from the Maersk Institute
  started a collaboration with Kompan playground
  systems and equipment
• Together they thougt out the idea of body games
• from passive vertical soft- ware games
• to active horizontal play- ware games

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From playing to training

• If it is possible to make children move, why do
  we not try to use the same principles to make our
  patients train?
• And maybe it is possible to be better to document
  the effect of various movements in the
  physioterapeutic treatment too?
• Tonny,- try it out!

We want to develop and test a prototype of a new
rehabilitation tool
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From then to now

The end of 2005 Spring 2006 Summer 2006 Automn winter 2006-2007 Spring 2007
Group 4 took action Ideas wishes to the prototype Prototype develoment and cross-sectional brain-stormings Fieldtrials and report First meeting with the cardiac group RESTORE
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Ideas wishes to the prototype

• Both floor and wall-based tiles
• More light (direction)
• Plain surface
• Easy to model

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Prototype development

• The designer at work
• The programmer at work

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The prototype tiles

• Both floor and wall-based
• Magnetic connections
• Plain surface
• More light
• Colour shift with heavier weight
• Possibilities in direction making
• Easy to model
• No plugs
• Magnetic and infrared connections
• Easy to recharge

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The fieldtrialhttp//www.sygehusfyn.dk/wm216477
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Some of the results from the fieldtrial

• Fitness training with colourrace and stepper
  (gt75 hrm)
• Coordination training with colourrace at wall
• Balance training with longstep
• Its a needed new individual training device
• Competition is motivating
• Further development is needed, e.g.
• Easier to use for the patients
• More possibilities for the therapist
• Better reliability
• The whole report (in Danish) at
  http//www.sygehusfyn.dk/wm214159

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Further possibilities today
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Possibilities in the futurehttp//www.steptest.dk
/index.php
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Thank You for Your attention

• Any questions?