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The healthcare sector is undergoing rapid change using information and communication technologies (E-Health). E-Health enables faster access to patient records and effective diagnosis and opens new areas of technology curated treatments. The unprecedented situation of the COVID pandemic faced by the world population has shifted greater focus toward healthcare and remote care systems, which have given rise to technological innovations in healthcare systems, including advancements in immersive extended reality (XR). Virtual reality, augmented reality, and mixed reality are together referred to as XR or immersive XR. Immersive XR also refers to all real-and-virtual collaborative environments and human–machine interactions. The characteristics of XR, such as integrating real and virtual environments and user interaction facilitation by utilizing past data, have promoted the application of immersive XR in many healthcare domains, including psychotherapy, patient recovery, wellness, etc. Poststroke motor recovery and neurorehabilitation are some examples that utilize XR-enabled platforms. Thus, this chapter will focus on mapping current research and development of immersive XR in patient recovery and wellness in the context of trivial and emerging nontrivial applications. This chapter will also involve systematic exploration of the available academic manuscripts, global patent grants, and emerging technical standards to compare the current academic and commercial developments to extend immersive XR in the field of patient recovery and wellness. © 2023 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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Purpose –Engineering processes involve multiple interrelated activities comprehended through workflows. An increase in remote working accelerated by Covid-19 has pushed an immediate shift to technology-enabled processes, fundamentally shifting workflow dynamics causing information overload. Graphic facilitation as a high-artifact representation methodology for processes, concepts, or ideations, employing an organized cluster of images, arrows, diagrams, sketches, doodles, and text elements offers a unique application for information management in engineering context. and the article further investigates the adoption framework focusing on the stakeholders. Methodology –This study applies a systematic literature review (SLR) approach to present essential literature across multiple databases and provides an adoption framework systematically exploring six years of popular peer-reviewed journal bibliographic and global patent grants data. Findings –The study reveals that the discussions are still emerging, and the domain is not thoroughly explored in engineering context. The patent dataset showcases insignificant development;however, emerging approaches are summarized, and newer tools are presented along with an adoption framework as a roadmap to further exploration. Practical Implications –Graphic facilitation demonstrates the potential capacity to support individuals and groups in different, creative, and innovative ways to address information overload. The presented outline will serve as a template for engineering leaders towards reviewing, experimenting with, and incorporating across the engineering workflows. Originality –The approach addresses information overload and presents its use cases along with entry-level barriers to graphic facilitation and suggests an exploratory future research scope including enhanced patent data analytics that synergises with the latest technologies mitigating barriers. IEEE