Authors:
Israfil Akman
1
;
Rafael Bielen
1
;
Henning Brümmer
1
;
Egor Kudrjaschow
1
;
Stefan Tschentscher
1
;
Oliver Dohndorf
1
;
Heiko Krumm
1
;
Jan-Dirk Hoffmann
2
;
Anke Workowski
2
and
Detlev Willemsen
2
Affiliations:
1
TU Dortmund University, Germany
;
2
Schüchtermann-Schiller'sche Kliniken, Germany
Keyword(s):
Ambient Assisted Living, Bicycle Ergometer, Cardiac Disease, Preventive Programme, Secondary Cardiac Prevention, Immersive Virtual Reality.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Biomedical Engineering
;
Biomedical Signal Processing
;
Cardiovascular Technologies
;
Cloud Computing
;
Computing and Telecommunications in Cardiology
;
Devices
;
e-Health
;
Health Engineering and Technology Applications
;
Health Information Systems
;
Human-Computer Interaction
;
Medical and Nursing Informatics
;
Physiological Computing Systems
;
Platforms and Applications
;
Sensors-Based Applications
;
Software Systems in Medicine
;
Wearable Sensors and Systems
Abstract:
The project CordiAAL purposes the goal of developing a training system for patients with cardiovascular diseases. The first aim is to reduce the anxiety of overexertion by using a continuous monitoring of vital parameters and the second is to increase the patients' motivation according to a moderate physical activity by the virtual environment of the system. The training can be done alone or in common with several patients in a virtual group, regardless of the patients' location. When grouped together, the performance of the individual patient is aligned, so that patients with different fitness levels are able to work together. The evaluations revealed that the increase in motivation could be achieved by training in the virtual environment in virtual groups.