Daily life movements such as standing, walking, and
jumping need balance ability to achieve. Good balance control is closely
related to the body stability and its development. According to medical
research, people showing dizziness after taking drugs may have their balance
ability substantially affected, and are more likely to fall, especially true to
the elderly. This study proposes the combination of Kinect with virtual
reality to build an information platform of interactive scenarios, for
practices and evaluation on balance ability. Based on the indicators of balance
ability, this platform sets out various training activities to improve the
balance ability, making the supposedly boring process fun and vivid for a much
better training purposes. Also, according to literatures, training with gaming
patterns results in 30% reduction of falls. What’s more, this type of training
can have the data, like time of use, scores, and joint postures, recorded and
sent through network to databases on remote computer servers. The data
collected from this platform can be sorted and analyzed, and the results can
then be used to evaluate the performance of the balance training, and
referenced for follow-up planning in the future.