06May 2019 — Dec 2024Lead researcher · IIT Madras
VR Gaming System for Upper-Extremity Rehab
A Unity-built virtual-reality gaming system for upper-extremity stroke rehabilitation — it recognizes a patient's gestures through computer vision and turns them into game events, and has been deployed in hospitals across India.
UnityZMQVirtual Reality
[ VR game scene / hospital deployment ]
// approach
→Develop the rehabilitation games in virtual reality using the Unity Engine.
→Integrate computer-vision gesture recognition and stream it into Unity over the ZMQ module.
→Convert recognized patient gestures into in-game events in real time.
→Equip the system to evaluate, monitor, and track each subject's motor improvements.
// outcomes
●Deployed in several hospitals across India.
●Forms the basis of an ongoing randomised controlled trial; data under analysis.
// related publications
A Comprehensive Gaming System for Rehabilitation of Upper Extremity Stroke
IBRO World Congress · 2023
Feasibility and efficacy of VR rehabilitation compared with conventional physiotherapy for upper extremity impairment due to ischaemic stroke: protocol for an RCT
BMJ Open · 2024
// related patents
FILED
Virtual Reality-Based Rehabilitation System for Stroke Patients
App. No. 3324 · under review