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Com@Rehab project “Communication for interactive rehabilitation in virtual reality” – by researchers Maria Micaela Fonseca, from NOVA School of Science and Technology, Rute Costa, from School of Social and Human Sciences of NOVA and Ana Rita Londral, from NOVA Medical School – is one of the two winners of Santander/NOVA Collaborative Research Award 2019-2020.

The Com@Rehab project develops the Digital Communication Module (MCD Rehab) of VR4Pandemic which currently includes three components: i) a glove with haptic feedback and biosensors, ii) a Virtual Reality (VR) game with levels of difficulty and iii) a platform that analyses the physiological parameters in real-time. The purpose of the project is to contribute to the rehabilitation of post-COVID patients in hospitals and/or home environments. The researchers intend to focus on the development of communicative skills of the various agents involved while enhancing technological literacy and interactivity with technology, thereby helping to improve human-human and human-machine interaction. By developing and optimizing a rehabilitation program, based on a VR system customized according to the patient’s clinical needs, the team aims to support the management of therapeutic activities directed to post-COVID patients by making it more effective. This is a multidisciplinary project in partnership with the collaborative laboratory Value for Health CoLAB, the HEI_Lab research center, as well as with the Centro de Medicina e Reabilitação de Alcoitão.

NOVA CLUNL is participating in Com@Rehab by applying its competencies in Health Literacy in the Linguistic and Terminological components of the project, thus, improving communication between technology and patients.

Team

Micaela Fonseca (principal investigator), Cláudia Quaresma, Rute Costa, Sara Carvalho, Ana Rita Londral, Raquel Silva.

News

http://www.ensino.eu/ensino-magazine/setembro-2020/universidades-santander/premios.aspx
https://hrportugal.sapo.pt/conheca-os-vencedores-do-premio-de-investigacao-colaborativa-santander-nova/
https://www.dinheirovivo.pt/formacao/reabilitacao-de-doentes-pos-covid-e-ia-distinguidos-por-santandernova/