A Home Rehabilitation Appliance That Integrates Universal Access with Personalized Interface

One of the key challenges in home rehabilitation field is the need for more personalized protocols and interfaces. This paper presents how UniTherapy, a telerehabilitation platform developed primarily for computer-assisted motivating rehabilitation (CAMR) applications, is being turned into a home rehabilitation appliance. This includes support for emerging standards, including universal plug and play (UPnP) and the user interface socket (UI Socket) that is enables a universal remote console (URC) to fully operate and automatically generate user interfaces on various available devices. Progress and related issues are discussed

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