Best paper award at ACM EICS 2023 conference

Congratulations to the members of the ICS team from the FSL department and the three other authors from the Universities of Lleida and Castilla – La Mancha Albacete on winning the Best Paper Award at the ACM EICS 2023 (Symposium on Engineering Interactive Computing Systems) conference. This was the 15th ACM International Conference on Engineering Interactive Computing Systems, held from June 26 to 30, 2023 in Swansea, Wales.

Stroke rehabilitation engineering

The winning paper is entitled “Engineering Rehabilitation : Blending two Tool-supported Approaches to Close the Loop from Tasks-based Rehabilitation to Exercises and Back Again “. This work is part of the ANR TEAM UP  project on tool and process engineering for stroke rehabilitation. The article presents a technique for integrating different stroke rehabilitation technologies, with the specificity of being mainly focused on the objectives, exercises and tasks of the rehabilitation program.

Extract from the summary

Post-stroke or post-brain injuries rehabilitation is a long-term process defined by therapists and tuned to the specific damages and their consequences for each patient. This process requires the definition of well-defined multiple exercises to be performed multiple times by each patient over a long period of time. One of the key findings in the rehabilitation domain is that exercises should be tasks and goals oriented to increase functional independence, enhance development and prevent disability [24]. Patients performing the exercises must be carefully monitored to identify progress, possible regression and prevent damages due to the inadequate performance of the exercises.