What is it about?

With cutting-edge techniques, we successfully simulate the capability of a physiotherapist in interpreting the diverse actions of their patient, as well as their ways of giving feedback. We believe this is going to be a milestone towards building a virtual, remote, and personal physio for everyone.

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Why is it important?

Physiotherapy is essential for managing chronic pain, but is also expensive both financially and in terms of time. The previous methods in building remote alternatives are limited in providing the physio-like action understanding and feedback. Generally, this work moves a step closer to enabling a virtual physio for daily use at home.

Perspectives

My Ph.D. was about protective behavior detection for people with chronic pain, a step we deemed essential to make technology ready for their needs beyond the clinic. However, I realized how far our previous idea was when I really got to know the capability of a physiotherapist in the clinic. A physio is able to comprehend the action of a user, in terms of the type of action as well as the specific movement patterns. Thereon, natural and practical feedback would be made to support the user to achieve the goal. By taking the advantage of recent progresses in multimodal language modeling, I started this project in collaboration with a national hospital. I expect this kind of technique shall benefit this population soon.

Dr. Chongyang Wang
Tsinghua University

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This page is a summary of: UbiPhysio, Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive Mobile Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies, March 2024, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery),
DOI: 10.1145/3643552.
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