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Guitar Hero as training for bionic arms
Boing Boing — ... from the muscles there. “It’s fun,” says Kuniholm, who achieved the highest score reported by the experimental subjects: 70 percent. Kuniholm says that while Air Guitar Hero is the only game so far that requires individual finger movement to train an amputee to deal with those muscles again, the real success is in striving for a realistic goal. “You’re doing something simple,” he says. “It’s not rocket science. But you have to do it fast and you have to time it right.” For Those Without Hands, There's Air Guitar Hero

Guitar Hero Repurposed to Help Train Bionic Arms
Medgadget — ... are supposed to hit. To correctly play a note, the player must press the right color fret button and the strum button with the opposite hand. But Vogelstein and Armiger wanted to use the game to train an amputee. So first they needed to make the game’s controls one-handed. They did that by wiring the two controls together so that an input from a muscle contraction would be read by the VIE as a simultaneous “fret” and “strum.” More from IEEE Spectrum Online... Image credit: Roberto Rizzato...