Advanced Interactive Technologies for Health and Well-Being Dr Wendy Powell – School of Creative Technologies

Interactive Motion in Virtual Environments (iMoVE) Research group looking at ways in which emerging technology can support health and well-being

Virtual Reality for Gait Rehabilitation Virtual rehabilitation for stroke, Parkinson's, injury etc is a rapidly growing field iMoVE is working on structured evaluation of software and hardware components and their influence on walking Papers published on the influence on walking of visual flow, sound effects, treadmill types etc. Producing guidelines for optimising gait rehabilitation applications

Developing applications for walking rehabilitation

Virtual Mirror Box Therapy Conventional Mirror Box requires intact contra-lateral limb Project in preparation for Virtual therapy for phantom limb pain Working with human behaviour specialists in Winchester SME to investigate low-cost solutions for effective home-based therapy

Responsive InTeractive Avatar Technology Strategy Board: Long Term Care Revolution £500k funding for proof of concept of a new service model looking to 2020 and beyond Working with Healthcare service designers, social workers and affective computing experts RITA is a humanised empathetic and responsive interface for support and advocacy Modular design to interpret and communicate complex data from health and other systems

RITA work-in-progress (Mocap of actress)

Recent relevant publications Powell, W., & Simmonds, M. (2014). Virtual Reality and Musculoskeletal Pain: Manipulating Sensory Cues to Improve Motor Performance During Walking. Cyberpsychology, Behaviour and Social Networking, 17(6), Powell, W., Powell, V. & Simmonds, M.(2014). Virtual Reality for Gait Rehabilitation - Promises, Proofs and Preferences. Paper presented at the PErvasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments Rhodes, Greece. Powell, V., Powell, V & Simmonds, M (2014). Considerations for Virtual Environments for Upper Limb Rehabilitation Tasks. Paper presented at the PErvasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments Rhodes, Greece. Powell, W. A., & Stevens, B. (2013). The influence of virtual reality systems on walking behaviour: A toolset to support application design. Paper presented at the Virtual Rehabilitation (ICVR), 2013 International Conference on, Philadelphia, PA Powell, W., Stevens, B., Hand, S., & Simmonds, M. (2011). Blurring the Boundaries: The Perception of Visual Gain in Treadmill-Mediated Virtual Environments Paper presented at the Workshop on Perceptual Illusion in Virtual Environments (IEEEVR), Singapore. Powell, W., Stevens, B., Hand, S., & Simmonds, M. (2010). The Influence of Audio Cue Tempo on Walking in Treadmill-Mediated Virtual Rehabilitation. Journal of CyberTherapy and Rehabilitation, 3(2), Powell, V., & Powell, W. (2010). A Novel Approach to Camera Tracking in a VR Reaching Task for Patients with Shoulder and Neck Pain. Journal of CyberTherapy and Rehabilitation, 3(2), Powell, W., Stevens, B., Hand, S., & Simmonds, M. (2010). Sounding Better: Fast Audio Cues Increase Walk Speed in Treadmill-Mediated Virtual Rehabilitation Environments. Studies in Health Technology and Informatics,, 154,