KINECTOTHERAPY

The software has a series of mini-games and each falls in the genre of Serious Games. Current rehabilitation games lack entertainment and engaging qualities whereas popular games lack essential components of rehabilitation. Mixing useful elements of both, serious games can be made, which create meaningful play. Similarly, our mini-games are gamified versions of conventional rehabilitation exercises that physiotherapists and occupational therapist make their patients do. The mini-games target specific limb movement problems that are common to a large group of people. Our software animates the in-game avatar of a person using real time motion capture data. Full skeleton of the user is tracked and the functions he performs are simulated in the virtual environment. Such an interactive environment encourages the person to become more involved, motivated and immersed in rehabilitation. These types of virtual environments not only have the components which are not found in conventional..