NuSense: Um framework baseado em plug-ins para ambientes inteligentes aplicado ao monitoramento de gameterapias

Abstract

The emergence of technologies that promote the users' immersion has pointed the interest of researchers into the healthcare field. These technologies, when combined with electronic games, have obtained good results by being used for therapeutic purposes. Commercial games have been widely used to that end, however, it is still required the supervision of health professionals for a better targeting in the patients' treatment. To decrease the burden of the supervision, tailor-made games with monitoring capabilities have been developed. The problem with this approach is that the quality - in terms of gameplay - of those games is low due to the lack of playfulness. To solve this problem, a good scenario is add monitoring capabilities to the treatments using commercial games. Given the lack of proposals with this approach, it is necessary a mechanism to assist developers in building applications for monitoring patients during the gameplay, according with predetermined characteristics set by health specialists. In this work, we propose the NuSense, a plugin-based framework to support in developing applications for the automatic monitoring of people in environments applied to game-based therapies, motor rehabilitation and physical exercises.