TY  - CONF
T1  - Agent-based systems for telerehabilitation: strengths, limitations and future challenges
A1  - Calvaresi, Davide
A1  - Schumacher, Michael
A1  - Marinoni, Mauro
A1  - Hilfiker, Roger
A1  - Dragoni, Aldo Franco
A1  - Buttazzo, Giorgio
TI  - X Workshop on Agents Applied in Health Care, A2HC 2017
Y1  - 2017
KW  - MAS
KW  - Multi-Agent Systems
KW  - Real-time Multi-agent systems
KW  - real-time systems
KW  - review
KW  - telerehabilitation
KW  - wearable Multi-agent systems
N2  - Telerehabilitation in older adults is most needed in the patient environments, rather than in formal ambulatories or hospitals. 
Supporting such practices brings significant advantages to patients, their family, formal and informal caregivers, clinicians, and researchers. 
Several techniques and technologies have been developed aiming at facilitating and enhancing the effectiveness of telerehabilitation. 
This paper gives a quick overview of the state of the art, investigating video-based, wearable, robotic, distributed, and gamified telerehabilitation solutions. In particular, agent-based solutions are analyzed and discussed addressing strength, limitations, and future challenges. Elaborating on functional requirements expressed by professional physiotherapists and researchers, the need for extending multi-agent systems (MAS) peculiarities at the sensing level in wearable solutions establishes new research challenges.
ER  -