Balloon Buddies™ - Social Mobile Gaming for Interactive Training
Patient with severe UL impairment playing the collaborative Balloon Buddies™ game with a healthy volunteer. Both players control the height of their balloon using a GripAble™ device (www.gripable.co) by either squeezing to inflate the balloon or releasing their grip to deflate the balloon. GripAble™ and Balloons Buddies™ have been developed by GripAble Ltd. a spin out of the Human Robotics Group at Imperial College London. http://www.imperial.ac.uk/human-robotics The proof of concept study, published in the Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation (JNER), can be found at: https://jneuroengrehab.biomedcentral.com/10.1186/s12984-017-0319-x Copyright ©2017-2018 Imperial College London All rights reserved
Patient with severe UL impairment playing the collaborative Balloon Buddies™ game with a healthy volunteer. Both players control the height of their balloon using a GripAble™ device (www.gripable.co) by either squeezing to inflate the balloon or releasing their grip to deflate the balloon. GripAble™ and Balloons Buddies™ have been developed by GripAble Ltd. a spin out of the Human Robotics Group at Imperial College London. http://www.imperial.ac.uk/human-robotics The proof of concept study, published in the Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation (JNER), can be found at: https://jneuroengrehab.biomedcentral.com/10.1186/s12984-017-0319-x Copyright ©2017-2018 Imperial College London All rights reserved