Wii are not alone: games with motion control interfaces

Although Wii has captured the early market for low cost interactive games, other game systems are coming. Microsoft’s Xbox Kinect allows full body controller-free gaming, due to launch in November. Sony PS3 Move is played with a handheld motion controller and is due to launch on September 17.

Pc world: Playstation Move vs. Kinect
www.pcworld.com/article/199305/kinect_for_xbox_360_vs_playstation_move.html

Msnbc: Xbox (Kinect) vs. Wii vs. PS3 (Move)
www.msnbc.msn.com/id/37911691/ns/technology_and_science-games/

Pc mag: Kinect vs. Move vs. Wii
www.pcworld.idg.com.au/article/356395/kinect_vs_move_vs_wii_/

XBox Kinect official site
www.xbox.com/en-CA/kinect

Wikipedia: Kinect
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinect

CBC article: Kinect
www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2010/06/14/microsoft-xbox-kinect-video-games.html

Engadget: Kinect game descriptions
www.engadget.com/2010/06/13/microsoft-kinect-gets-official/

Cnet: Kinect review
reviews.cnet.com/8301-21539_7-20007681-10391702.html

Sony PS3 Move official site
us.playstation.com/ps3/playstation-move/

Wikipedia: Move
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PlayStation_Move

Cnet: Move
news.cnet.com/8301-13772_3-10467340-52.html

Medgadget: Dr. Richard Marks, inventor of Sony Eyetoy, talks about Move
medgadget.com/archives/2010/06/games_for_health_2010_interview_with_ps3_move_creator_dr_richard_marks.html

Pc world: Move
www.pcworld.com/article/203652/sonys_ps3_move_bundle_costs_more_and_less_than_you_think.html

Search Youtube for videos
www.youtube.com/

Sony PS3 Move
www.youtube.com/results?search_query=sony+move&aq=f

Xbox Kinect
www.youtube.com/results?search_query=kinect&aq=f

Wii
www.youtube.com/results?search_query=wii&aq=f

Tele-occupational therapy

Some information categorized under the moniker tele-occupational therapy. Perhaps it is a Canadian term as all the following links are from the Canadian Association of Occupational Therapists (CAOT).
The periodical "OT Now" has a regular section on tele-occupational therapy. New issues are not open to the public, but older articles can be viewed. Here's a 2008 article by Jonathan Halton "Virtual rehabilitation with video games: A new frontier for occupational therapy".
www.caot.ca/otnow/jan%2008/virtual.pdf
OT Now current issue (requires subscription)
www.caot.ca/default.asp?pageid=2388
OT works.ca "Canada's OT resource site" What is tele-occupational therapy?
www.otworks.ca/otworks_page.asp?pageID=749
CAOT Tele-occupational therapy Position statement
www.caot.ca/default.asp?pageid=187

Virtual reality for children with physical impairments

An update on the use of virtual reality technology to improve movement in children with physical impairments,
Danielle Levac and Cheryl Missiuna
Published and distributed by CanChild Centre for Childhood Disability Research in ‘Keeping Currents’, 2009

www.canchild.ca/en/canchildresources/VirtualRealityTechnology.asp

The potential role of virtual reality technology in pediatric rehabilitation is promising; however, this is a developing field and early evidence is inconclusive (Sandlund et al., 2009). New developments in rehabilitation-specific and commercially-available technology imply that opportunities to integrate virtual reality technology within rehabilitation will continue to increase. Research is required to explore the effectiveness of these interventions, their application in different populations of children and youth, and their potential effectiveness to promote participation in daily functional activities.

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'Keeping Currents' are based on hot issues in children's rehabilitation to provide an objective review of the issue and to move the field of childhood disability forward. 'Keeping Currents' present a summary of research evidence from the literature and may include opinions from experts in the field.

Practice Guidelines

These links document how thought about telerehabilitation is currently organized. With time, more practice guidelines will be produced. The American Telemedicine Association is working on telerehabilitation practice guidelines currently, and that document will be linked from here when completed.

ATA Telemedicine Standards and Guidelines
www.americantelemed.org/i4a/pages/index.cfm?pageid=3311

Canadian Association of Speech-Language Pathologists and Audiologists: Position Paper
www.caslpa.ca/PDF/position%20papers/telepractice.pdf

Canadian Association of Occupational Therapists: Position Statement
www.caot.ca/pdfs/telehealthPS.pdf

American Speech-Language-Hearing Association: Professional issues in Telepractice
www.asha.org/docs/html/PI2010-00315.html

American Physical Therapy Association: Definitions
www.apta.org/AM/Template.cfm?Section=Policies_and_Bylaws1&CONTENTID=67459&TEMPLATE=/CM/ContentDisplay.cfm

American Telemedicine Association: Telemental health practice guidelines
www.atmeda.org/files/public/standards/PracticeGuidelinesforVideoconferencing-Based%20TelementalHealth.pdf