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Stroke affects around 15 million people worldwide each year, and it claims a life every two seconds. Of these 15 million stroke victims, 5 million die from its consequences. In Algeria, stroke is one of the leading causes of severe physical disability affecting 60 000 people each year. Up to 66% of all stroke survivors are unable to use their affected arm in performing activities of daily living. In order to restore their motor and sensory abilities as much as possible, patients must follow a recovery process, called rehabilitation. However, it is difficult to keep patients motivated during rehabilitation because patients find some of the traditional rehabilitation tasks mundane and boring due to their repetitive nature, additionally, rehabilitation can require patients to travel to specialized units, and health-care costs are often high. As a solution to these problems, recent studies have shown that the use of new technologies such as virtual reality and video games in the field of rehabilitation can motivate and help patients recover their motor skills. In this chapter, our objective is to develop some video or serious games that meet the needs of health professionals for upper limbs rehabilitation in post-stroke patients and then evaluate the usability of the Leap Motion Controller virtual reality system (LMC), which is a sensor that captures the movement of the patient’s hands and fingers without the need to place sensors or devices on the body. We measured the usability of the LMC system with the designed serious games as well as the level of satisfaction among healthy participants and post-stroke patients from Bounaama Djilali Hospital (CHU Douera) in Algeria. The results show favorable data, for the first time, the LMC is a usable tool, measured by the System Usability Scale (SUS). In addition, participants demonstrated good motivation, enjoyment and the majority of them said that they would like to use the proposed system in future treatment. However, further studies are needed to confirm these preliminary findings.

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Leap Motion-Controller Video Game-Based Therapy for Improving Motor Functional Recovery of Upper Limbs in Post–Stroke Patients: A Usability Evaluation

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    2026年

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  • Zineb Hadjadj,
  • Mostefa Masmoudi,
  • Abdelkrim Meziane,
  • Nadia Zenati

摘要

Stroke affects around 15 million people worldwide each year, and it claims a life every two seconds. Of these 15 million stroke victims, 5 million die from its consequences. In Algeria, stroke is one of the leading causes of severe physical disability affecting 60 000 people each year. Up to 66% of all stroke survivors are unable to use their affected arm in performing activities of daily living. In order to restore their motor and sensory abilities as much as possible, patients must follow a recovery process, called rehabilitation. However, it is difficult to keep patients motivated during rehabilitation because patients find some of the traditional rehabilitation tasks mundane and boring due to their repetitive nature, additionally, rehabilitation can require patients to travel to specialized units, and health-care costs are often high. As a solution to these problems, recent studies have shown that the use of new technologies such as virtual reality and video games in the field of rehabilitation can motivate and help patients recover their motor skills. In this chapter, our objective is to develop some video or serious games that meet the needs of health professionals for upper limbs rehabilitation in post-stroke patients and then evaluate the usability of the Leap Motion Controller virtual reality system (LMC), which is a sensor that captures the movement of the patient’s hands and fingers without the need to place sensors or devices on the body. We measured the usability of the LMC system with the designed serious games as well as the level of satisfaction among healthy participants and post-stroke patients from Bounaama Djilali Hospital (CHU Douera) in Algeria. The results show favorable data, for the first time, the LMC is a usable tool, measured by the System Usability Scale (SUS). In addition, participants demonstrated good motivation, enjoyment and the majority of them said that they would like to use the proposed system in future treatment. However, further studies are needed to confirm these preliminary findings.