Augmented Reality Based Self-Treatment Using Acupressure

Abstract

Acupressure is an ancient Asian method of relieving pain and curing diseases. This paper presents our work on customized Augmented Reality Based Self-Treatment Using Acupressure (ARBASTUA) that uniquely uses facial symmetry to model acupressure points personalized for users’ faces and displays the information using augmented reality. We also bridge the gap in presenting this useful information to users in a userfriendly manner. With the increase in use of smart-phones, a lot of health tips apps have been released. Most of these apps are text based, and provide health related information in text form which is not very user friendly. This information can be better presented in a novel way by using augmented reality. Index Terms—Acupressure, Golden Ratio, Face Detection, Face Symmetry, Augmented Reality, Chinese medicine