PMID- 21893791
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20111213
LR  - 20220330
IS  - 0926-9630 (Print)
IS  - 0926-9630 (Linking)
VI  - 169
DP  - 2011
TI  - Respiration tracking using the Wii remote game controller.
PG  - 455-9
AB  - Respiration exercises are an important part in the pulmonary rehabilitation of 
      COPD (chronic obstructive pulmonary disease) patients. Furthermore, previous 
      research has demonstrated that showing respiration pattern helps the patients to 
      improve their breathing skills. We have developed a low cost and non-invasive 
      prototype based on the Wii remote game controller infrared camera to provide BPM 
      (breaths per minute) measurement as feedback. It can also be a comfortable 
      solution without wires, batteries or any kind of electronics but just wearing 
      passive markers. The lab evaluation with 7 healthy individuals showed that this 
      approach is feasible when users are resting of their exercise. The BPM monitored 
      during the tests presented less than 15% of maximum error and the RMSE (root mean 
      square error) was lower than 6% in all the tests. Further research is needed to 
      evaluate and adapt the system for COPD patients. In addition, more work is needed 
      to develop applications that can be built to motivate and guide the users.
FAU - Guirao Aguilar, J
AU  - Guirao Aguilar J
AD  - Department of Computer Science, Faculty of Science and Technology, University of 
      Tromso, Norway. juguiag@teleco.upv.es
FAU - Bellika, J G
AU  - Bellika JG
FAU - Fernandez Luque, L
AU  - Fernandez Luque L
FAU - Traver Salcedo, V
AU  - Traver Salcedo V
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
PL  - Netherlands
TA  - Stud Health Technol Inform
JT  - Studies in health technology and informatics
JID - 9214582
MH  - Diagnosis, Computer-Assisted/methods
MH  - Equipment Design
MH  - Exercise
MH  - Humans
MH  - Monitoring, Ambulatory/methods
MH  - Pulmonary Disease, Chronic Obstructive/*rehabilitation
MH  - Reproducibility of Results
MH  - *Respiration
MH  - Respiratory Mechanics
MH  - Signal Processing, Computer-Assisted
MH  - Software
MH  - User-Computer Interface
MH  - Video Recording
EDAT- 2011/09/07 06:00
MHDA- 2011/12/14 06:00
CRDT- 2011/09/07 06:00
PHST- 2011/09/07 06:00 [entrez]
PHST- 2011/09/07 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2011/12/14 06:00 [medline]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Stud Health Technol Inform. 2011;169:455-9.