Provide every member of a gigabit-enabled community with access to physical therapy services using a 3D tele-health platform that permits remotely located physicians to interact with geographically dispersed patients to determine the type of physical therapy treatments that patients may need.

This project will develop approaches to expand the provision of physical therapy services to patients and improve the convenience of the services. This may help to improve patient adherence to physical therapy treatment plans and improve recovery times.

Team Information: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, • Professor Klara Nahrstedt, the Ralph and Catherine Fisher Full Professor in the Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign • Chien-Nan Chen, Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Multimedia Operating System and Networking Group (MONET) • Zhenhuan Gao, Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Multimedia Operating System and Networking Group (MONET) • Professor Nahrstedt anticipates hiring two additional PhD students from the University of Illinois to serve as research assistants on this project. • Professor B. Prabhakaran, Professor of Computer Science, University of Texas at Dallas. • Professor Mike Twidale, Graduate School of Library and Information Science, Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign • Professor Jon Gant, Graduate School of Library and Information Science, Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign