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Veterans will be first to try cyber physical therapy
At the Beyond Today's Internet Summit, researchers from UT Dallas showed a working prototype of a next-generation communication system that uses 3-D video and force feedback devices to virtually recreate a physical therapy session between a patient and a therapist.
Credit: National Science Foundation
The UT Dallas team created a simulation where two individuals practice sawing a log--a task that mimics the rehabilitation movements used by recovering stroke patients.
Credit: NSF
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Balakrishnan Prabhakaran is a professor of computer science at UT Dallas.
Credit: UT Dallas
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