ReviewFrontiers in digital health2020
A Review of Virtual Coaching Systems in Healthcare: Closing the Loop With Real-Time Feedback.
Review in Frontiers in digital health, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers.
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13 citing papers in PubMed.
- Assessment of Clinician Well-Being Using a Biometric-Informed Coaching Platform.JAMA network open · 2026Article
- Decision-centered wearable biosensors for personalized rehabilitation: integrating multimodal monitoring, artificial intelligence, and closed-loop intervention.Frontiers in bioengineering and biotechnology · 2026Review
- Automated Control of Rehabilitation Process in Physical Therapy Using a Novel Human Skeleton-Based Balanced Time Warping Algorithm.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Aging population challenges: enhancing healthy aging practices through virtual coaching systems.BMC health services research · 2025Article
- Feasibility of a Comprehensive eCoach to Support Patients Undergoing Colorectal Surgery: Longitudinal Observational Study.JMIR perioperative medicine · 2025Observational
- Deep learning-based human body pose estimation in providing feedback for physical movement: A review.Heliyon · 2024Review
- ICT in Nursing and Patient Healthcare Management: Scoping Review and Case Studies.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Enhancing knowledge of Diabetes self-management and quality of life in people with Diabetes Mellitus by usingJournal of public health research · 2023Article
- Preferences for coaching strategies in a personalized virtual coach for emotional eaters: an explorative study.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Article
- A Virtual Coach (Motibot) for Supporting Healthy Coping Strategies Among Adults With Diabetes: Proof-of-Concept Study.JMIR human factors · 2022Article
- Identification of decompensation episodes in chronic heart failure patients based solely on heart sounds.Frontiers in cardiovascular medicine · 2022Article
- Exploring user engagement with real-time verbal feedback from an exoskeleton-based virtual exercise coach.Digital healthArticle
- Coaching as a Model for Facilitating the Performance, Learning, and Development of Palliative Care Nurses.SAGE open nursingArticle
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Abstract
This review focuses on virtual coaching systems that were designed to enhance healthcare interventions, combining the available sensing and system-user interaction technologies. In total, more than 1,200 research papers have been retrieved and evaluated for the purposes of this review, which were obtained from three online databases (i.e.,PubMed, Scopus and IEEE Xplore) using an extensive set of search keywords. After applying exclusion criteria, the remaining 41 research papers were used to evaluate the status of virtual coaching systems over the past 10 years and assess current and future trends in this field. The results suggest that in home coaching systems were mainly focused in promoting physical activity and a healthier lifestyle, while a wider range of medical domains was considered in systems that were evaluated in lab environment. In home patient monitoring with IoT devices and sensors was mostly limited to activity trackers, pedometers and heart rate monitoring. Real-time evaluations and personalized patient feedback was also found to be rather lacking in home coaching systems and this is the most alarming find of this analysis. Feasibility studies in controlled environment and an ongoing active research on Horizon 2020 funded projects, show that the future trends in this field are aiming to close the loop with automated patient monitoring, real-time evaluations and more precise interventions.
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