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Telehealth and Telecare Aware ‘s Donna Cusano recenlty posted this announcement about Google Glass:
The University of Twente in the Netherlands is doing some unusual research in developing an app to help improve the gait of a group at high risk of falls–those with Parkinson’s disease. Current research has found that certain patterns and rhythms when viewed or heard improve gait, such as stripes on the floor or a metronome’s ticking.
Google Glass or another intelligent glasses would display these pattern and/or rhythmic sound, and it would interact with the cameras and accelerometers already built into the devices. The MIRA Institute for Biomedical Technology and Technical Medicine is working on the project together with the Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour (Nijmegen), the Medisch Spectrum Twente hospital and the VUmc University Medical Centre in Amsterdam. Google glass can improve gait of Parkinson’s patients. It also sounds like an investigatory area for smartphones and fitness bracelets. Hat tip to contributing editor Toni Bunting.
We are beginning to see how various health care specialists are using generic devices for specialty applications. Those of us in behavioral and mental health care are eager to see how such innovation impact mental health and mental health assessment?
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