From invention to innovation in assistive technology.

This thesis presents an Assistive Technology gaming system that promotes new and augmented methods for occupational, physical and rehabilitative therapy. Using a combination of Software, Hardware and online-services, the system encourages a patient-centric approach to therapy, allowing a more cohesive treatment-process between the care-facility and the patient’s private residency. The thesis will evaluate the system in context of existing therapy methods and assistive-technology solutions. Special attention will be applied to the design-process of the system as an inclusive rather than segregated solution, mapping the correlation between its universal-usage and specific AT applications. In this context, the thesis comes to take a critical look at existing therapy methods and the role that technology plays in encouraging certain treatment-methodologies while stifling others.