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This study aims to develop a telemedicine platform for self-motor rehabilitation and remote monitoring by health professionals, in order to enhance recovery in patients after hip replacement. The implementation of such a technology is justified by medical (improvement of the recovery process by the possibility to perform rehabilitation exercises more frequently), economic (reduction of the number of medical appointments and the time patients spend at the hospital), mobility (diminution of the transportation to and from the hospital) and ethics (healthcare democratization and increased empowerment of the patient) purposes. The Kinect camera is used as a Natural User Interface to capture the physical exercises performed at home by the patients. The quality of the movement is evaluated in real-time by an assessment module implemented according to a Hidden-Markov Model approach. The results show a high accuracy in the evaluation of the movements (92% of correct classification). Finally, the usability of the platform is tested through the System Usability Scale (SUS). The overall SUS score is 81 out of 100, which suggests a good usability of the Web application. Further work will focus on the development of additional functionalities and an evaluation of the impact of the platform on the recovery process.

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Knowledge of the atmospheric turbulence in the telescope line-of-sight is crucial for widefield observations assisted by adaptive optics (AO), particularly tomodel how the point spread function (PSF) elongates across the field of view(FOV) owing to the anisoplanatism effect. The extraction of key astronomical parameters accounts on an accurate representation of the PSF, which call for an accurate anisoplanatism characterisation . This one is, however, a function of the Cn2(h) profile, which is not directly accessible from single-conjugate AO telemetry. It is possible to rely on external profilers, but recent studies have highlighted discrepancies of more than 10 per cent with AO internal measurements, while we aim at better than 1 per cent accuracy for PSF modelling. In order to tackle this limitation, we present focal-plane profiling (FPP) as a Cn2(h) profiling method that relies on post-AO focal-plane images.We demonstrate that such an approach complies with a 1 per cent level of accuracy on the Cn2(h) estimation and establish how this accuracy varies regarding the calibration star magnitudes and their positions in the field. We highlight the fact that photometry and astrometry errors caused by PSF mis-modelling reach respectively 1 per cent and 50 µas using FPP on a Keck baseline, with a preliminary calibration using a star of magnitude H = 14 at 20 arcsec. We validate this concept using Canada's NRC-Herzberg HeNOS testbed images by comparing FPP retrieval with alternative Cn2 (h) measurements on HeNOS. The FPP approach allows the Cn2(h) to be profiled using the SCAO systems and significantly improves the PSF characterization. Such a methodology is also ELT-size-compliant and will be extrapolated to tomographic systems in the near future.