Open Rehab Initiative: Second Development Iteration
A substantial part of rehabilitation tools are
developed in the context of research projects, which rarely reach
their target audience, in particular clinicians and patients. To
address this challenge, the Open Rehab Initiative (ORI) emerged
as an international independent online portal with the goal of
connecting clinicians, scientists, engineers, game developers, and
end-users to interact and share virtual rehabilitation tools. The
quality and efficacy of such platform can only be attained
iteratively based on a user-centered design approach. This paper
describes the design process and features implemented on the
second development iteration subsequent to a formative
evaluation of the first version of ORI. The main goal of the
second iteration was to implement new features and make the
platform functional and ready for a second evaluation process
with beta testers, which will certainly prompt new features for
improvement and will serve as a step toward the final release of
the site.
Keywords—rehabilitation; virtual environments; serious
games; web platform; open access; user-centered; iterative design.
Open for beta testing at https://www.openrehab.org/
Open for beta testing at https://www.openrehab.org/
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