Marge Coahran
Research Associate
Toronto Rehabilitation Institute
Biography
Marge Coahran holds a Master of Science from the University of Toronto in Computer Science (2005), and a Bachelor of Science from the University of Massachusetts in Physics (1987). Her Masters project was in computer graphics, in which she developed a sketch-based system for designing Bargello quilt patterns. She subsequently spent seven years teaching computer science to undergraduates at the University of Toronto, Grinnell College in Iowa and Dickinson College in Pennsylvania.
Marge joined IATSL in August 2013 as a Research Associate. She currently is contributing to the following projects doing software development, hardware trouble-shooting, or whatever is needed at the moment:
- Intelligent Haptic Robotic System for Upper Limb Rehabilitation After Stroke
- Intelligent Personal Emergency Response (PERS) and Fall Detection System
- Sensory Conflict Neuro-Rehabilitation
She loves working with the IATSL team because of the variety of learning opportunities it presents, its interdisciplinary nature, and its focus on improving people's lives.
Publications
Computer-Assisted Bargello Quilt Design, M.Sc. Thesis, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Toronto, September, 2005.
Coahran, M. and Fiume, E., "Sketch-based design for Bargello quilts", Eurographics Symposium Proceedings: Sketch-Based Interfaces and Modeling (Sept. 2005), Takeo Igarashi, Joaquim Jorge (Eds.), 165-174.
Workshops
Coahran, M. and Davis, J., "Circuits and Microcontrollers in Computer Organization Laboratories," ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education (March 2012).
Software
BargelloSketcher 1.0: Easy-to-use software for designing Bargello quilts. Free download for Windows 2000, XP, Vista, and Windows 7. Available for Linux by request. Launched August 2011:
