Cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of death in the world. A program of cardiac rehabilitation (CR) is related to physical activities or exercises to regain the optimal quality of life. CR relies on the necessity to evaluate, control and supervise a patient's status and progress. This work has two objectives: on the one hand, provide a tool for clinicians to assess the patient's status during CR. On the other hand, there is evidence that robots can motivate patients during therapeutic

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... ocedures. Our sensor interface explores the possibility to integrate a robotic agent into cardiac therapy. This work presents an exploratory experiment for on-line assessment of typical CR routines.