RICELab Rethinking Interaction Collaboration and Engagement

Many soft tissue injuries are well-suited for physiotherapy intervention – for instance, overuse of a shoulder, or tweaking a knee, etc. Our interest is in designing tools to support these interventions. In one exploration, we studied how to design tools for remote physiotherapy, where a client can “visit” and work with a physiotherapist via a remote video connection [Ledo, D., Aseniero, B., Greenberg, S., Boring, S., and Tang, A. (2013). OneSpace: shared depth-corrected video interaction. In CHI EA '13: CHI '13 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 997--1002.] [Dillman, K., and Tang, A. (2013). Towards Next-Generation Remote Physiotherapy with Videoconferencing Tools. In University of Calgary.] . This exploration present new challenges for conventional videochat applications, and we designed tools to overcome these challenges.

Nevertheless, we found such “visits” would still need to be augmented with at-home interventions that could support guidance on exercises, where people could be reminded of and guided to perform an exercise properly. We explored several visualization techniques for providing this feedback [Tang, R., Yang, X., Tang, A., Bateman, S., and Jorge, J. (2015). Physio@Home: Exploring visual guidance and feedback techniques for physiotherapy patients at home. In CHI 2015: Proceedings of the 2015 SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 4123-4132.] [Tang, R., Alizadeh, H., Tang, A., Bateman, S., and Jorge, J. (2014). Physio@Home: Design Explorations to Support Movement Guidance. In CHI EA '14: CHI '14 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 1651--1656.] .

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