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Increased sedentary nature of work life and motorized ambulation often causes individuals to lose their regular walking habit. However, increased sensitization towards ill-effects of such lifestyle encourage individuals to avail gym facilities providing treadmill-based exercises. Treadmill-based exercises have also reached healthcare centers for gait training. Repeated treadmill-based exercises often become monotonous. Coupling treadmill with Virtual Reality (VR) can be motivating. However, this training platform needs augmentation with devices to quantify gait through gait-related indices. Camera-based techniques can be used to measure one's gait-related indices. But, such techniques are very expensive and often pose accessibility issues in developing countries. Here, we have designed a cost-effective Sensored shoe that quantifies one's gait-related indices. Also, our treadmill-based system was synched with VR through VR-Treadmill Interface to provide realistic feel to users. Our experimental study with 14 healthy volunteers showed potential of VR-assisted treadmill walk to improve gait over its non VR-assisted counterpart.

With aging population, neurodegenerative disorder is becoming health issue and hence early screening tools to prevent adverse effects are critical. Early screening may help to detect such disorder at a nascent stage which can be clinically addressed thereby delaying its progression. With technological progress, brain scanning can identify such disorders. However, access to such tools are restricted due to high cost and necessity of technical skills to operate that are limited to specialized health centers. Tracking one's eye movement in response to a visual task can be cost-effective alternative for developing screening platform. Motivated by this, we have designed computer-based visual tasks and exposed participants to these tasks. Our system captured one's eye movement to quantify gaze in terms of reaction time and % correct fixations in response to visual stimuli presented on computer monitor. The preliminary results of our experimental study with 10 healthy participants are promising.