Virtual Reality Applications Towards Therapy for Stroke Victims

Objective: I'm proposing to make a timeline of progression of VR Therapy for stroke victims from these users from my lab's study. I would like to compare their results with traditional constraint induced movement therapy. It would also be necessary to see a comparison between prices of CIMT (Constraint induced movement therapy) vs the price of a VR system

Created by: Victoria Ly (vily@ucsc.edu) in collaboration with Professor Lodha

Designed for: CMPS 263 Data Visualization Winter 2018

Data Sources: Data collected from my lab on this project, DANSER lab also has more data from user testing from the star catcher project, a VR game to help with therapy, as well as data from motion capture system. The data captured could be useful for physical therapists to anlayze how their patients are progressing throughout VR therapy.

U.S National Institutes of Health - According to the U.S National Institutes of Health, more than 700,000 people suffer a stroke each year in the U.S alone.

Stroke patients' and therapists' opinions of constraint-induced movement therapy -68 of particients said they were they were unlikely to adhere to protocol to continue CIMT. Gathering data on the prices of VR systems will range from $599+

Vizualization Sources:

CDC Website - national maps about strokes death rates, hospitalization rates, stroke deat rates age 35+, 65+ and by country

References: A lot of this data will be pulled from the research and data from the studies from DANSER Lab.