3-D 'occupational therapy' for children: Virtual muscle machine for kids with disabilities

Wednesday, April 28, 2010 - 00:31 in Mathematics & Economics

A researcher is using a "virtual tabletop" to "move" kids with disabilities and provide home-based treatments using virtual reality tools. Combining new three-dimensional exercises with two-dimensional graphical movement games already programmed into the tabletop (which resembles an early video game), she reports not only success but also enthusiasm among her young patients.

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