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Call for participants
We are looking for your participation on a Resident and Family Centred Care Working Group to direct and assist in the development of CSA Z8004, Operation and Infection Prevention and Control of Long-Term Care (LTC) Homes. Please see more detail here.
Current Projects
Aging-in-Place
- Acceptability of Autonomous Cars
- Intelligent Personal Emergency Response (PERS) and Fall Detection System
- Automated Speech Recognition for a Personal Emergency Response System
- Personal Robots to Support Aging-in-Place
- Machine Learning Approaches for Automated Gait Analysis
- Frailty Toolkit: Home-based Frailty Assessment and Prediction Using Internet of Things and Artificial Intelligence
Frameworks, Guidelines, and Methodologies
Older Adults with Dementia
- Automated Pain Assessment for Older Adults with Dementia
- Ubiquitous Robotics to Support Older Adults with Dementia
- Driving Cessation and Dementia
- COACH: An Intelligent Supportive Environments for ADL Prompting with Older Adults
- Social Cognition for Assistive Robots
- Anti-collision and Navigation Systems for Powered Wheelchairs
- 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
- Vision-Based Assessment of Parkinsonism and Levodopa-Induced Dyskinesia
- Wearable Hand Robots for Rehabilitation and Daily Assistance
- Smart Phone Application for the Management of Mild Traumatic Brain Injury
- Non-contact sleep monitoring and sleep apnea detection
- Snap 'N Dose: An easy-to-use dosage calculator and reminder for children's medication
- Intelligent Haptic Robotic System for Upper Limb Rehabilitation After Stroke
- Cognitive Telerehabilitation through New Computing Technologies: A Focus on Traumatic Brain Injury
- Intelligent Nutritional Assessment system (INA)
- Sensory Conflict Neuro-Rehabilitation
- Development of a Smart System that can Predict Changes in Cognition in Older Adults
- Biomechanics of Upper-Limb Stroke Rehabilitation Therapy
Supporting informal / family caregiving
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
- 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
