Estado del arte en aplicaciones móviles para parálisis facial: información, diagnóstico y rehabilitación

Abstract

This paper presents a state of the art of mobile applications aimed at patients and professionals around facial paralysis. A window of exploration is established between 2009 and 2019, geolocated in countries that have promoted the development of such applications. The objective is to provide a frame of reference for the implementations and to serve, in perspective, as a baseline for research of the Autonomous Mobile Robotics group (ROMA for its Spanish acronym) attached to the Scientific Research and Development Center of the Francisco José de Caldas District University -CIDC- and categorized in COLCIENCIAS. A bibliographic search was carried out in the following search engines: Google Scholar, Microsoft Academic, Bielefeld Academic Search Engine (BASE); databases: Dialnet, Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ), PubMed, Redalyc, Scientific Electronic Library Online (SciELO) and Scopus; and information sources specific to the field of mobile applications: Google Play (Android), App Store-Apple (iOS) and Windows Store (Windows Mobile/ Windows Phone). It is concluded that the mobile applications available in the current market of such platforms are few, informative and diagnostic and for facial rehabilitation; it is noted that there are projects in universities in Latin America, the United States, Europe and Asia focused on marketing products generated for therapeutic purposes.