An Enhanced Upper Limb Rehabilitation Table Design Based on Virtual Reality

The rehabilitation treatment combined with virtual reality (VR) has recently received widespread attention for recovering the upper limb's motor functions. The immersive environment and rich feedback in VR can help maintain users' motivation and provide a desirable user experience. This paper proposes a novel design of an enhanced upper limb rehabilitation table system. The system is an integration of the rehabilitation table and VR technology, with a game designed and implemented. This paper also evaluates the user experience of the developed rehabilitation system based on VR with different inclination angles of physical and virtual operating planes. The experiment results show no significant differences in the users' sense of presence and embodiment. This study brings new insights into the rehabilitation system design by enhancing existing rehabilitation devices with VR technology. In addition, it contributes to this growing area by exploring the user experience evaluation for the enhanced rehabilitation systems based on VR.