Physical Exercise for The Elderly People using Kinect Technology

Using the game concept in rehabilitation process has the potential to provide the elderly with a fun, motivating, and challenging therapy. This research presents a new model of therapy for the elderly in physical rehabilitation, which might be boring, to be more interesting and motivated. The main purpose of this research is to create a home-based physical therapy tool that can assisting the elderly in the correct execution of movements through stimulation from interactive elements of digital games based on the procedures of the physiotherapist. This research is designed by using unity game engine and kinect hardware. Kinect is used for taking the coordinates of the user using the skeletal tracking method. Main theme of the game that is designed is to get as many points as possible in each movement. After the elderly has done physical therapy, there will be a development chart to monitor the condition of the elderly. The result of this research shows a development graph of physical therapy results that have been done by the elderly.