Natural User Interfaces in the Motor Development of Disabled Children

This study describes a framework based upon body tracking devices and aimed at assisting children with motor impairments and aims at understanding what positive contribute it can deliver for their rehabilitation process. A case study is defined featuring two motor disorders that take advantage of the technological specifications, as well as the types of exercise appropriate for this context. The developed framework collects motricity data by asking the user to mimic the movements of a previously recorded exercise, and is thoroughly detailed in this paper. The results obtained evidence the data collected regarding the user performance denotes certain motor patterns of the disorder, making it apt to be applied as an auxiliary tool for impairments diagnosis. A few tracking issues indicate that the technologies selected can be applied in a real context to assist in rehabilitation sessions, but require additional evaluation metrics to support its conclusions.