Join Our Innovative Study: Enhance Stroke Rehabilitation with Robotic Technology
We are looking for stroke survivors to participate in an exciting user centered design study aimed at enhancing the rehabilitation experience for stroke survivors. The University of Toronto's Intelligent Assistive Technology and Systems Lab is developing a new home-based modular robotic rehabilitation system designed to make post-stroke upper limb exercises more engaging.
Study Details:
Location: 500 University Avenue, Toronto
Compensation: $30 per session
Sessions: Up to 10 sessions focused on iterative user-centered design
Participants will engage with a rehabilitation platform that integrates gaming elements to keep exercises motivating. Your feedback will be crucial in refining our technology to better serve the needs of the community.
How to Participate:
Interested candidates should contact Deniz Jafari at deniz.jafari@utoronto.ca or phone at +1 647-456-3612 or Bing Ye at bing.ye@utoronto.ca . Please refer to the consent documentation for more details.
Your participation is voluntary, and you can withdraw at any time. Join us in shaping the future of stroke rehabilitation!
Current Projects
Aging-in-Place
Older Adults with Dementia
- Home-Based Reminder System to Enable Self-Directed Dementia Care and Remote Behaviour Monitoring
- Automated Pain Assessment for Older Adults with Dementia
- Social Cognition for Assistive Robots
- Identifying Effective Communication Strategies Utilized by Caregivers Interacting with Individuals Diagnosed with Alzheimer’s Disease
- Co-designing ambient assisted living (AAL) environments: unravelling the situated context of informal dementia care
- An Assessment Tool to Identify Assistive Technologies to Support Community-Dwelling Older Adults with Dementia
- Detecting Behavioral and Psychological Symptoms of Dementia Using Multimodal Sensors
Rehabilitation and Well-being
- RoboRehab: Social Gamified Therapy
- Vision-Based Assessment of Parkinsonism and Levodopa-Induced Dyskinesia
Past Collaborative Projects
- AAL-WELL: Ambient Assistive Living Technologies for Wellness, Engagement, and Long Life
- An Intelligent Supportive Environment for Completing a Factory Assembly Task: The NCAPS project (COACH@Work)
- Data Mining in Bone Marrow Transplant (BMT) Medical Records
- ePAD: Computer-based Facilitation of Creative Expression Activities for Older Adults with Dementia
Past Projects
- Intelligent Personal Emergency Response (PERS) and Fall Detection System
- Personal Robots to Support Aging-in-Place
- Machine Learning Approaches for Automated Gait Analysis
- Synthetic Memory
- Ubiquitous Robotics to Support Older Adults with Dementia
- Wearable Hand Robots for Rehabilitation and Daily Assistance
- Smart Phone Application for the Management of Mild Traumatic Brain Injury
- Multimodal COACH System to Assist Older Adults with Dementia Perform ADL
- Non-contact sleep monitoring and sleep apnea detection
- COACH: An Intelligent Supportive Environments for ADL Prompting with Older Adults
- Beyond the discourse of ‘burden’: Understanding the experiences of adult children who care for parents with dementia living at home
- Intelligent Haptic Robotic System for Upper Limb Rehabilitation After Stroke
- Intelligent Nutritional Assessment system (INA)
- Sensory Conflict Neuro-Rehabilitation
- Using Vision and Electromyography for Autonomous Control of Robotic legs
- Driving Cessation and Dementia
- Cognitive Telerehabilitation through New Computing Technologies: A Focus on Traumatic Brain Injury
- Anti-collision and Navigation Systems for Powered Wheelchairs
- Frailty Toolkit: Home-based Frailty Assessment and Prediction Using Internet of Things and Artificial Intelligence
- Biomechanics of Upper-Limb Stroke Rehabilitation Therapy
- Development of a Smart System that can Predict Changes in Cognition in Older Adults
- Snap 'N Dose: An easy-to-use dosage calculator and reminder for children's medication
- Automated Speech Recognition for a Personal Emergency Response System
- Space Squirrel Project
- Age-CAP (Age-friendly Communities Assessment apP)
- An Assistive Technology Framework for Older Adults with Dementia: A User-Centred Design Approach
- Dialogue-Based COACH Project (Intelligent Supportive Environment for Older Adults)
- Understanding the Attitudes and Preferences of Current and Future Older Adults in the Use of Robots to Facilitate Occupational Performance
- The People and Technology at Home (PaTH) Project: Supporting development of home technologies for people with Alzheimer's disease
- Context-aware display system for patient rooms
- Automatic Video Analysis for Product Usability Assessment (part of the RERC For Universal Design)
- The Impact of Familiarity on the Usability of Products by Older Adults (part of the RERC For Universal Design)
- Application of Context-awareness to Hand Hygiene Compliance
- Investigating conscious control of autonomic physiological signals as an access point for communication with patients with severe and profound disabilities
- Prompting Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder Through Activities of Daily Living
- Acceptability of Home Monitoring Technology Among Community-Dwelling Older Adults
- Efficacy of Visual Prompting Among Older Adults with Dementia
- Efficacy of a personal hand sanitization device for improving handwashing compliance in nurses
- iWalker - A walker able to collect biophysical, environmental, and behavioural data
- Wheelchair Obstacle Avoidance System Using an Infrared Sensor
- Perception and Society: The Autism Emulation Project
- Context-Aware Medication Reminding Device
- Effects of a Knee-Brace on the Mobility of Older Adults with Osteoarthritis
- Manoeuvrability of a Powered Wheelchair
- Technology in the Lives of Women who Live with Memory Impairment as a Result of Traumatic Brain Injury
- An Automated Tool for Detecting and Preventing Unsafe Stair Use by Older Adults
- Automatic Detection of Abnormal Gait on Stairs
- Autonomous and Unobtrusive Monitoring of the Physiology and Physical Activity of Seniors with Heart Failure
- Brick Computing: Embedded, Autonomous, and Passive Physiological Monitoring
- An Automated Prompting System to Help Teach Handwashing to Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder
- The Usability of a Large Multi-Touch Enabled Interface For Children With Cerebral Palsy: A Pilot Study
- CanWheel: Improving wheeled mobility of older adults
