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Augmented reality is being used by one researcher to help treat walking abnormalities by showing them how to correct their stance.<\/p>\n
Athlone-based PhD candidate Thiago Braga Rodrigues of the Athlone Institute of Technology (AIT) has published a paper to PLOS One<\/a> documenting how augmented reality (AR) could bring enormous benefits to those with walking abnormalities.<\/p>\n If left untreated, it could result in someone developing arthritis or serious injuries through everyday wear and tear. The solution uses AR smart glasses that shows how a person is walking, where the greatest stresses is being placed on a person’s gait and give them a visual guide of how to improve it.<\/p>\n “Traditionally, patients rely solely on guided feedback which is given in a clinical setting and requires the presence of an expert to inform the rehabilitation or re-training. It also necessitates a patient travel many times to and from a clinic,” said Braga Rodrigues.<\/p>\n “The potential of AR as a portable, wearable and visual piece of technology is under-researched and certainly worth investigating further. It has a wide range of applications and is capable of augmenting human performance in a variety of ways.”<\/p>\n Braga Rodrigues, a Brazilian biomedical engineer, is currently in his final write-up phase of his research and, according to his supervisor Dr Niall Murray, getting a paper published is a “significant milestone”.<\/p>\n “Having a paper accepted to a multidisciplinary journal like PLOS One with its impact factor and H5 index is a great achievement,” he said.<\/p>\n “The fact that PLOS One is an open access journal also means that his research will be easily accessible to the research community and general public.”<\/p>\n Similar efforts to use AR to help those in need have been developed in Ireland over the past few years. One such project saw researchers from University College Dublin and the SFI centre Lero reveal a prototype device<\/a> that could make communication between deaf and non-deaf people a lot faster, based on Microsoft’s HoloLens headset.<\/p>\n Tags:<\/b> Colm Gorey<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Augmented reality is being used by one researcher to help treat walking abnormalities by showing them how to correct their stance. Athlone-based PhD candidate Thiago Braga Rodrigues of the Athlone Institute of Technology (AIT) has published a paper to PLOS One documenting how augmented reality (AR) could bring enormous benefits to those with walking abnormalities. If left … Continue reading AIT researcher using augmented reality to ‘cure’ walking abnormalities<\/span><\/a> Continue Reading Accessible to other researchers<\/h2>\n
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