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Role and quality of communication in collaborative training for Multiple Sclerosis patients

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Anastasiia Beznosyk,

Wim LamotteAuthors Info & Claims

PETRA '12: Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on PErvasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments

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https://doi.org/10.1145/2413097.2413103

Published: 06 June 2012 Publication History

Abstract

Social support provided by family and friends plays an important role in the rehabilitation of people suffering from various types of disabilities, in particular, Multiple Sclerosis (MS). Unfortunately due to the necessity of spending a substantial amount of time in rehabilitation centers, most MS patients experience lower social interaction with their immediate surroundings. To overcome this, we utilize a collaborative game played over the Internet that facilitates interaction during absence. While staying at the rehabilitation center for intense and necessary training programs, patients can play this game with relatives or friends communicating through audio and/or video channels.

In the research presented in this paper, we firstly investigate how patients perceived communication with a remote person. Secondly, the influence of network quality (i.c. presence of packet loss) on this perception was analyzed. Results show that patients prefer to see their game partners while interacting remotely. When exposed to varying levels of multimedia quality, they point out that the quality of audio is relatively more important than the quality of video.

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Index Terms

Role and quality of communication in collaborative training for Multiple Sclerosis patients
1. Applied computing
  1. Life and medical sciences
    1. Consumer health
    2. Health informatics
2. Human-centered computing
  1. Collaborative and social computing
    1. Collaborative and social computing design and evaluation methods
  2. Human computer interaction (HCI)

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PETRA '12: Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on PErvasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments

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DOI:10.1145/2413097

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Xiao LBandukda MAngerbauer KLin WBhatnagar TSedlmair MHolloway C(2024)A Systematic Review of Ability-diverse Collaboration through Ability-based Lens in HCIProceedings of the 2024 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems10.1145/3613904.3641930(1-21)Online publication date: 11-May-2024
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