AR Training Platform at Home

Online AR Training Platform for the Elderly and Persons With Chronic Diseases at Home

Video Communications, like ZOOM, have been widely used in the time of this epidemic. But how about to design an AR / VR communication system with coaching from clinician to facilitate training at home in this time of epidemic. Vulnerable individuals at home can interact with the training platform and his/her clinician can provide online training progamme with guidance.

Study Overview

• Status: Recruiting
• Conditions: Stroke; Chronic Disease
• Intervention / Treatment: Device: An Online Augmented Reality (AR) Training Platform

• Study Type: Interventional
• Enrollment (Anticipated): 600
• Phase: Not Applicable

Contacts and Locations

• Study Contact: Name: Raymond Kai-yu Tong, PhD; Phone Number: +85239438454; Email: kytong@cuhk.edu.hk

Study Locations

• Hong Kong
  • Hong Kong, Hong Kong
    • Recruiting
    • Department of Biomedical Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: 18 years and older (Adult, Older Adult)
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No
• Genders Eligible for Study: All

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

1. age >=65 years old or suffering from chronic disease;
2. sufficient cognition to follow simple instructions as well as understand the content and purpose of the study MoCA> 21); and
3. Home setting: TV with HDMI input, internet access, and a distance of 1.5m away from TV.

Exclusion Criteria:

1. Any additional medical or psychological condition that would affect their ability to comply with the study protocol, e.g., a significant orthopaedic or chronic pain condition, major post-stroke depression, epilepsy, artificial cardiac pacemaker / joint;
2. Severe shoulder or arm contracture/pain;
3. Severe knee or hip contracture/pain;
4. Pregnant women

Study Plan

How is the study designed?

Design Details

• Primary Purpose: Treatment
• Allocation: N/A
• Interventional Model: Single Group Assignment
• Masking: None (Open Label)

Number of Arms

1

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm	Intervention / Treatment
Experimental: AR Training System; The subjects follow the daily rehabilitation training program designed by clinical and healthcare team. The system will monitor their movement and provide feedbacks to the users. The clinicians/healthcare workers can provide feedbacks and guidance to correct their movements and postures.	Device: An Online Augmented Reality (AR) Training Platform; The hardware system is based on camera depth sensor and combined with 3D human tracking technology and intelligent technology, to monitor, correct and record the user's whole body movements in real-time, and the users can follow the training program.

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Fugl-Meyer Assessment	Fugl-Meyer Assessment for Upper-Extremity the maximum score is 66, divided into 33 items in the form of a 3-point scale (0-2), 0 is cannot perform and 2 performs fully. Fugl-Meyer Assessment for Lower-Extremity consists of 34-level cumulative scoring system to examine lower-limb functions of hemiplegic stroke patients quantitatively through a set of lower-limb movement tasks in reflex, flexor/extensor synergy, volitional movement, coordination and speed (Fugl-Meyer, et al., 1975).	6-month after the first training

Secondary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
The 12-item Short Form Survey	It is a self-reported outcome measure assessing the impact of health on an individual's everyday life. It is often used as a quality-of-life measure.	6-month after the first training
Barthel Index	It assesses functional independence, generally in stroke patients.	6-month after the first training
Berg Balance Scale	Berg Balance Scale (BBS), consists of 56-level measures to examine balance ability and to predict falling risk with high reliability (ICC=0.98) (Steffen, Hacker & Mollinger, 2002). Stroke patients were assessed based on their performance on 14 simple mobility tasks, including transfer, standing, and reaching	6-month after the first training
Modified Ashworth Scale	Modified Ashworth Scale (MAS), consists of 4-level scale to examine joint spasticity based on muscle tone and resistance detected during passive stretching with good inter-rater reliability (ICC =0.85) (Bohannon & Smith, 1987).	6-month after the first training
Functional Ambulation Category Test	Functional Ambulatory Category (FAC) is a reliable measurement of independent walking ability on level-ground walking and stair ambulation, which is a good prediction of independent community walking post-stroke (Mehrholz, et al., 2007). FAC consists of 6-level scale: patients with FAC=4 requires supervision in level ground walking, FAC=5 requires supervision only when walking on non-level surface such as stairs.	6-month after the first training

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: Chinese University of Hong Kong
• Investigators: Principal Investigator: Raymond Kai-yu Tong, PhD, Department of Biomedical Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start (Actual): January 13, 2021
• Primary Completion (Anticipated): December 1, 2024
• Study Completion (Anticipated): December 1, 2024

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: November 16, 2022
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: November 16, 2022
• First Posted (Actual): November 25, 2022

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (Actual): November 25, 2022
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: November 16, 2022
• Last Verified: November 1, 2022

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Additional Relevant MeSH Terms: Pathologic Processes; Disease Attributes; Chronic Disease
• Other Study ID Numbers: 2020.538

Drug and device information, study documents

• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product: No
• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product: No