TRACK 4 | SELF MANAGEMENT PART1 | DAY 2 - 1 NOV 2016 Fares Kayali, Senior Researcher | Vienna University of Technology (AT) Games for Health Europe 2016

1. Using Games to Train Myoelectric Prosthesis Control

2. Fares Kayali
Game Researcher and Designer
Positive Impact Games Lab
Vienna University of Technology
fares@igw.tuwien.ac.at http://piglab.org

3. Cosima Prahm
Researcher
CD-Laboratory for Bionic Reconstruction
Medical University of Vienna
cosima.prahm@meduniwien.ac.at

4. Myo Gesture Control Armband

5. Arm Prosthesis (Ottobock)

6. SuperTuxKart Videogame

7. Tatla, S. K., Shirzad, N., Lohse, N., Virji-Babul, N., Hoens, A., Holsti, L.,
Li, L., Miller, K., Lam M., Van der Loos, H., 2015. Therapists’
perceptions of social media and video game technologies in upper
limb rehabilitation. JMIR serious games, 3(1).
Armiger, R. S. & Vogelstein, R. J., 2008. Air-Guitar Hero: A real-time
video game interface for training and evaluation of dexterous
upper-extremity neuroprosthetic control algorithms. Biomedical
Circuits and Systems Conference, BioCAS, pp. 121-124.

8. Sample
6 upper limb amputees
11 able bodied participants

10. SuperTuxKart Step Mania 5 Pospos

12. subjects patients
Endurance
improvement in electrode separation and
muscle endurance

13. Precision
improvement fine muscle control

14. Conclusion
Most upper limb amputees use a 2-channel myoelectric
prosthesis control. This study has shown that this
control can be effectively trained by employing a
videogame based rehabilitation protocol.

16. @faresK
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