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Phyx.io: Expert-Based Decision Making for the Selection of At-Home Rehabilitation Solutions for Active and Healthy Aging

While the importance of physical activity in older adults is beyond doubt, there are significant barriers limiting the access of older adults to physical exercise. Existing technologies to support physical activity in older adults show that, despite their positive impacts on health and well-being, t...

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Autores principales: Dorado Chaparro, Javier, Fernández-Bermejo Ruiz, Jesús, Santofimia Romero, María José, del Toro García, Xavier, Cantarero Navarro, Rubén, Bolaños Peño, Cristina, Llumiguano Solano, Henry, Villanueva Molina, Félix Jesús, Gonçalves Silva, Anabela, López, Juan Carlos
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9103419/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35564884
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19095490
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author Dorado Chaparro, Javier
Fernández-Bermejo Ruiz, Jesús
Santofimia Romero, María José
del Toro García, Xavier
Cantarero Navarro, Rubén
Bolaños Peño, Cristina
Llumiguano Solano, Henry
Villanueva Molina, Félix Jesús
Gonçalves Silva, Anabela
López, Juan Carlos
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Fernández-Bermejo Ruiz, Jesús
Santofimia Romero, María José
del Toro García, Xavier
Cantarero Navarro, Rubén
Bolaños Peño, Cristina
Llumiguano Solano, Henry
Villanueva Molina, Félix Jesús
Gonçalves Silva, Anabela
López, Juan Carlos
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description While the importance of physical activity in older adults is beyond doubt, there are significant barriers limiting the access of older adults to physical exercise. Existing technologies to support physical activity in older adults show that, despite their positive impacts on health and well-being, there is in general a lack of engagement due to the existing reluctance to the use of technology. Usefulness and usability are two major factors for user acceptance along with others, such as cost, privacy, equipment and maintenance requirements, support, etc. Nevertheless, the extent to which each factor impacts user acceptance remains unclear. Furthermore, other stakeholders, besides the end users, should be considered in the decision-making process to develop such technologies, including caregivers, therapists and technology providers. In this paper, and in the context of physical rehabilitation and exercise at home, four different alternatives with incremental characteristics have been defined and considered: a software-based platform for physical rehabilitation and exercise (Alternative 1), the same software platform with a conventional RGB camera and no exercise supervision (Alternative 2), the same software platform with a convention RGB camera and exercise supervision (Alternative 3) and finally, the same software platform with a depth camera and exercise supervision (Alternative 4). A multiple attribute decision-making methodology, based on the ordinal priority approach (OPA) method, is then applied using a group of experts, including end users, therapists and developers to rank the best alternative. The attributes considered in this method have been usefulness, cost, ease of use, ease of technical development, ease of maintenance and privacy, concluding that Alternative 3 has been ranked as the most appropriate.
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spelling pubmed-91034192022-05-14 Phyx.io: Expert-Based Decision Making for the Selection of At-Home Rehabilitation Solutions for Active and Healthy Aging Dorado Chaparro, Javier Fernández-Bermejo Ruiz, Jesús Santofimia Romero, María José del Toro García, Xavier Cantarero Navarro, Rubén Bolaños Peño, Cristina Llumiguano Solano, Henry Villanueva Molina, Félix Jesús Gonçalves Silva, Anabela López, Juan Carlos Int J Environ Res Public Health Article While the importance of physical activity in older adults is beyond doubt, there are significant barriers limiting the access of older adults to physical exercise. Existing technologies to support physical activity in older adults show that, despite their positive impacts on health and well-being, there is in general a lack of engagement due to the existing reluctance to the use of technology. Usefulness and usability are two major factors for user acceptance along with others, such as cost, privacy, equipment and maintenance requirements, support, etc. Nevertheless, the extent to which each factor impacts user acceptance remains unclear. Furthermore, other stakeholders, besides the end users, should be considered in the decision-making process to develop such technologies, including caregivers, therapists and technology providers. In this paper, and in the context of physical rehabilitation and exercise at home, four different alternatives with incremental characteristics have been defined and considered: a software-based platform for physical rehabilitation and exercise (Alternative 1), the same software platform with a conventional RGB camera and no exercise supervision (Alternative 2), the same software platform with a convention RGB camera and exercise supervision (Alternative 3) and finally, the same software platform with a depth camera and exercise supervision (Alternative 4). A multiple attribute decision-making methodology, based on the ordinal priority approach (OPA) method, is then applied using a group of experts, including end users, therapists and developers to rank the best alternative. The attributes considered in this method have been usefulness, cost, ease of use, ease of technical development, ease of maintenance and privacy, concluding that Alternative 3 has been ranked as the most appropriate. MDPI 2022-05-01 /pmc/articles/PMC9103419/ /pubmed/35564884 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19095490 Text en © 2022 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Dorado Chaparro, Javier
Fernández-Bermejo Ruiz, Jesús
Santofimia Romero, María José
del Toro García, Xavier
Cantarero Navarro, Rubén
Bolaños Peño, Cristina
Llumiguano Solano, Henry
Villanueva Molina, Félix Jesús
Gonçalves Silva, Anabela
López, Juan Carlos
Phyx.io: Expert-Based Decision Making for the Selection of At-Home Rehabilitation Solutions for Active and Healthy Aging
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title_fullStr Phyx.io: Expert-Based Decision Making for the Selection of At-Home Rehabilitation Solutions for Active and Healthy Aging
title_full_unstemmed Phyx.io: Expert-Based Decision Making for the Selection of At-Home Rehabilitation Solutions for Active and Healthy Aging
title_short Phyx.io: Expert-Based Decision Making for the Selection of At-Home Rehabilitation Solutions for Active and Healthy Aging
title_sort phyx.io: expert-based decision making for the selection of at-home rehabilitation solutions for active and healthy aging
topic Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9103419/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35564884
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19095490
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