Each year, approximately 1 million people suffer a Cerebral Vascular Accident in Europe alone, making stroke on the biggest burdens to health and social care. Improving the quality and efficiency of rehabilitation programs is one of the fundamental strategies for a better and cost-effective health system. ARCADE proposes leveraging interactive and digital technologies to create context-aware workspaces to improve physical rehabilitation practices. Following a multidisciplinary approach, ARCADE blends computer science, computer engineering, computational biomechanics, physiotherapy, interaction design, and behavioural psychology.

New 2020 Publications

ARCADE has two new publications about interactive technologies and rehabilitation of stroke survivors. One of them at the premiere international venue of Human-Computer Interaction, the ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems:

Inês Santos Silva, João Guerreiro, Marlene Rosa, Joana Campos, Augusto Gil Pascoal, Sofia Pinto, and Hugo Nicolau. 2020. Investigating the Opportunities for Technologies to Enhance QoL with Stroke Survivors and their Families. In Proceedings of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’20). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 1–11. DOI

Simon Harper, Julia Mueller, Alan Davies, Hugo Nicolau, Sukru Eraslan, and Yeliz Yesilada. 2020. The case for “health-related impairments and disabilities.” In Proceedings of the 17th International Web for All Conference (W4A ’20). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 2, 1–7. DOI