3D editor to define generic rehabilitation therapies as a source to monitor and guide patients

The rehabilitation domain has found the movement interaction as an important factor of improvement. Evidence of this are the current efforts to develop systems to monitor remotely patients during their training. The aim is to facilitate implied tasks such as avoiding constant displacements of specialists and patients when possible. However, existing works are applied to specific injuries as dedicated rehabilitation systems leaving aside general treatments. In this sense, this paper presents EVITE, a 3D Virtual editor to define from general to specific exercises based on postures through traditional or movement interaction. The editor generates XML files with a well-defined structure what represents a powerful source for any monitoring systems. The knowledge of the tags composing the files allows those systems to guide the therapy previously define with EVITE. In order to show the feasibility of the work, the paper briefly describes REHABILITA, a monitoring application that makes use of the editor as its source.