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Design of Therapeutic Training Sequences for Infants Using a Visual Approach

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In this paper we present and discuss the design, implementation and evaluation of a visual programming environment. The proposed application allows authoring of therapeutic training sequences for the CareToy system, a hardware system developed for the purpose of in-home rehabilitation training for infants, aiming to improve the motor skills of preterm infants diagnosed with neurological conditions.

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Acknowledgments

The work presented in this paper is part of the CareToy project (www.caretoy.eu), funded by the European Union (ICT-2011.5.1-287932).

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  1. Computer Science Department, University of Hamburg, Vogt-Koelln-Str. 30, 22527, Hamburg, Germany

    Eugen Richter, Luiza Mici, Norman Hendrich & Jianwei Zhang

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Richter, E., Mici, L., Hendrich, N., Zhang, J. (2014). Design of Therapeutic Training Sequences for Infants Using a Visual Approach. In: Cipresso, P., Matic, A., Lopez, G. (eds) Pervasive Computing Paradigms for Mental Health. MindCare 2014. Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, vol 100. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-11564-1_15

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