Product Comparison Chart: Wearables
Wearable technology is one of the foremost fusions of science and technology with every-day life. With a combination of fashion and technology, those in the medical field as well as…read more →
Archive For June, 2014
Intelligent Clothing Calls for the Doctor
By Michael Lawo Among the initiatives aiming to improve health status monitoring technologies, the European Commission promotes CHRONIOUS, a 42-month project, started in February 2008 and involving 19 partners from…read more →
Teens Help Researchers Create Internet Environment To Curb Teen Smoking
By Nancy Ahmann Smoking kills 440,000 Americans each year. Despite this grim statistic, 2,000 teens start smoking every day. It is estimated that at least 4.5 million adolescents in the…read more →
Transforming VR into a Reality for Behavioral Health Care: The NeuroVR Project
By Giuseppe Riva et al Although frequent papers show that Virtual Reality (VR) has come of age for clinical and research applications, the majority of projects are still in the…read more →
The Eldergames Project
By Luciano Gamberini et al A longer life expectancy and decreasing birth rates in developed countries represent the main factors contributing to a rapid growth of the aging population. Even…read more →
The Evolution of Wearables
By Daniel Stevens When the word “wearable” is mentioned, mixed notions of its meaning arise amongst the general population. It is fairly safe to say that the term wearable is…read more →
Letter from the Publisher
Dear Reader, Welcome to Issue 1 of the 2009 CyberTherapy and Rehabilitation Magazine (C&R), the official voice of the International Association of CyberPsychology, Training and Rehabilitation (I-ACToR). I-ACToR, formerly known…read more →
C&R in China
By Emily Butcher Traditional Chinese medicine has been used for thousands of years to treat mental disorders and only fairly recently, in the 1990’s and new century, has the force…read more →
Technology for the Disabled Population: The Growth of Virtual Reality Rehabilitation in China
By Chen Weidong Statistics from the Second China National Sample Survey on Disability indicated that China’s population contained nearly 83 million disabled people in 2006. In contrast to the figure…read more →
Presence as a Cognitive Process: Understanding the Feeling of “Being There”
By Giuseppe Riva In its more general use in relation to experiences mediated by digital information technology, the term “presence” has referred to a widely reported sensation experienced during the…read more →