NCT03096262Completed
Transforming Robot-mediated Telerehabilitation: Citizen Science for Rehabilitation
Feasibility of a Kinect-Based Citizen Science Telerehabilitation Platform
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Last updated 11 Jul 2025
Brief summary (registry, in English)
The purpose of this study is to advance upper limb robot-mediated tele-rehabilitation for patients recovering from stroke by empowering them through active science participation. By varying the tasks' features and affordances of a platform that combines a low-cost haptic device on one hand, and an online citizen science platform on the other, investigators will evaluate different strategies for social telerehabilitation. the two fundamental modes of social interaction - competition and cooperation - in addition to a control condition. Specifically, citizen science activities will be performed by competing, cooperating, or isolated users, and their rehabilitation effectiveness examined. Such effectiveness will be measured by (i) participants' rehabilitation performance (inferred from sensorimotor data acquired through the platform and directly quantified by a supervising therapist); (ii) participants' motivations to contribute (measured through surveys administered online); and (iii) participants' emotional well-being and sense of self-esteem (measured through online surveys).
- Status (registry)
- Completed
- Study type
- Interventional
- Enrollment
- 20 (actual)
- First submitted
- 24 Mar 2017
- Start date
- Apr 2021
- Primary completion date
- May 2025
- Lead sponsor
- Johns Hopkins University
- Diseases
- Stroke
- NCT number
- NCT03096262
What you commit to
- Study type: Interventional
- Participants enrolled: 20
- From Apr 2021 to the primary completion date, May 2025
- 1 site in 1 country
- Visits and tests: ask the trial team, the registry does not list them
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Prior treatment
- medical comorbidity such as other neurological conditions (e.g. Parkinson's disease, brain tumor, epilepsy), or previous injury to the upper limb
- any previous injury or medical condition that prevents full passive range of motion to perform the exercises.
Other
- For treatment group:
- visual deficit such as deficit in visual acuity, eye movements, visual field cut, or neglect
- pain in the upper limbs that prevents full passive range of motion to perform the exercises.
- For control group:
- visual deficit such as deficit in visual acuity, eye movements, visual field cut, or neglect
Who the study is looking for
- For treatment group:
- post-stroke hemiparesis \>3 months
- ability to stand or sit independently
- sufficient cognitive skills to perform the exercises as demonstrated
- full passive range of motion in the affected arm but limited active movement as determined by a upper extremity Fugl-Meyer score of \<50/66
- technical savvy and interest to use an internet platform
- For control group:
- (ii) no history of learning disabilities (iii) technical savvy and interest to use an internet platform
Age in the registry: 18 years to 65 years · Sex: All · Accepts healthy volunteers
Sites (1)
Sites in registry order. Pick your city on the disease page to sort them by distance.
| Site | City | Country | Site status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Matthew Bird Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Baltimore | United States | Unknown status |
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