Project details

News reports and in the press: medGagdet, MassDevice, UberGizmo, Vector

Project name: Multi-Touch Rehabilitation Intervention Tools
Project members (present and past): Alan Dunne, Luca Della Toffola, Son Do-Lenh, Chia Shen, Paolo Bonato
Collaborators: Donna Nimec (MD), Brian Snyder (MD, Ph.D.), Michelle L. Coldwell (OT)
Partners: Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital, Boston Children's hospital, Harvard SEAS SDR Lab
Published paper(s):

Alan Dunne, Son Do-Lenh, Gearóid Ó' Laighin, Chia Shen, Paolo Bonato, "Upper Extremity Rehabilitation of Children with Cerebral Palsy using Accelerometer Feedback on a Multitouch Display", in the Proceedings of 32nd Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC'10), 1st - 4th September, 2010.

Project description

A collaborative project between the SDR Lab and the Motion Analysis Laboratory at Harvard Medical School’s Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation. and Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital.

This project utilizes multi-touch tabletop and motion-tracking technologies to develop adaptive therapeutic interventions based on interactive gaming, including uni-manual, bi-manual, tangible as well as multi-person games. This application domain requires adaptability and accessibility as built-in features of the games. The inital development platform will be Microsoft Surface. These games will be developed to improve motor functions for impaired upper extremity (arms and hands) rehabilitation of children with cerebral palsy.

Pictures

News and Featured

November 11 - 14, 2012: ACM ITS 2012 will be held in Boston this year!

July 2, 2012: Workshop on Digital Ecosystems for Collaborative Learning

May 5 - 10, 2012: Two papers to be presented in ACM CHI 2012:

"Of BATs and APEs: Designing an interactive tabletop game for natural history museums". Horn, M.S., Leong, Z.A., Block, F., Diamond, J., Evans, E.M., Phillips, B.C., Shen, C.

"Phylo-Genie: Engaging Students in Collaborative 'Tree- Thinking' through Tabletop Techniques". Schneider, B., Strait, M., Muller, L., Elfenbein, S., Shaer, O., Shen, C. (2012).

`Press`

Wall Street Journal Health article

Press Release on "Life on Earth"

Vector (Children's Hospital Boston's science and clinical innovation blog) and medGadget (internet journal of emerging medical technologies) report on our Multi-touch Rehabilitiation Intervention games.

Chia Shen gave a keynote at the IEEE/IFIP EUC 2010 (International Conferences on Embedded and Ubiquitous Computing).

Chia Shen was a keynote speaker at the 6th Joint Conference on Harmonious Human Machine Environment in the ancient city Luoyang, China.

The SDR Lab featured in the Harvard gazette Read article.

Chia Shen was an invited speaker at the 2009 Interactive Tabletop and Surfaces conference in Banff, Canada.

15-16 March 2010: Chia Shen is an invited speaker to the China Symposium on HCI in Bejing, China.