Grants and Contributions:

Grant or Award spanning more than one fiscal year (2017-2018 to 2018-2019).

AnimationLeader Technology Inc. is a Calgary-based company that has motion-tracking system and offersx000D
physiotherapists a digital onboarding process, a vision-based assessment tool, an intelligent exercisex000D
recommendation portal and an interactive compliance tracking app to automate the whole process of objectivex000D
examination, exercise instruction and compliance tracking in an accurate, data driven and engaging way. Theirx000D
technology called Physio4D will help practitioners to prescribe customized exercises, track whether the patientx000D
is doing the exercise correctly, and assess the effectiveness of the prescribed exercises. To have more accuratex000D
real-time assessments for the exercises, they want to see a representation of the person's joints and bones.x000D
Using mixed reality devices will help them to overlay a digital skeleton on the patients' body and do real-timex000D
measurements while the patient is doing exercises. Also, for each patient, the company is collecting data pointsx000D
and tracks the patient's progress to evaluate the benefits of the prescribed exercises. However, since the numberx000D
of exercises is high (Some exercise programs have more than 10,000 exercises), the company is looking forx000D
ways to find normative data for each injury category to develop recommendations for an effective andx000D
personalized rehab plan.x000D
The project goal is to investigate whether mixed reality devices can help the clinicians get a betterx000D
understanding on how patients can keep a good posture during functional tests such as lifting endurance over ax000D
period of time and use machine learning to analyze collected measurements and develop predictive metrics forx000D
a personalized rehab plan using (frozen) shoulder injuries as a case study.Concretely, we will investigate ifx000D
mixed reality real-time visualizations using a Microsoft HoloLens to project information on top of the patientx000D
doing the exercises can increase the accuracy of performing the exercise and has positive healing effects for thex000D
area of injury. We will also use machine learning techniques to investigate the impact of prescribed exercisesx000D
on the outcomes. If successful, the research can help develop evidence-based personalized rehab plans and