Integrating Mixed Reality and Body Weight Support Technology for Immersive Pediatric Rehabilitation

Interventions involving the use of assistive technology have the potential to enhance motor outcomes for children with mobility challenges. Keeping up with the intervention, however, is challenging due to decreased engagement and motivation toward practicing the training tasks. To address these challenges, this work focuses on the development of a pediatric motor training environment that combines dynamic body weight support and mixed reality technology. Both components allow for personalized, variable motor practice in an environment enriched with gamified activities. This paper describes the system configuration alongside five game scenarios that were developed to target various motor skills, such as standing, walking, squatting, and reaching. Preliminary results on the mixed reality environment performance as well as next steps in this work are discussed.