Program Presentations

  




Key note address.
  A SWOT Analysis of the Field of Virtual Rehabilitation

  Dr. Albert (Skip) Rizzo, University of Southern California
PowerPoint file size: 191,395 KB
Paper Session 1: Telerehabilitation and Haptics
  Session Chair: Paul Sharkey

Home-Based Telerehabilitation Using a Virtual Environment System
   Maureen K. Holden, Thomas A. Dyar, Lee Schwamm and
   Emilio Bizzi
PowerPoint file size: 8,125 KB

Formative Evaluation of a Virtual Reality Telerehabilitation System for the Lower Extremity
   Elizabeth Whitworth, Jeffrey A. Lewis, Rares Boian,
   Marilyn Tremaine, Grigore Burdea,  Judith E. Deutsch
PowerPoint file size: 3,471 KB

A Virtual-Reality based motor tele-rehabilitation system
   Lamberto Piron, Paolo Tonin, Andrea Atzori, Elena Trivello,
   and Mauro Dam
PowerPoint file size: 3,344 KB

Virtual Reality and Haptics as an Assessment Tool for Patients with Visuospatial Neglect: a preliminary study
   Jurgen Broeren, MSc, Maria Lundberg, BSc, Tim Molén,
   Camilla Samuelsson, Katharina Stibrant Sunnerhagen,
   Anna-Lena Bellner, and Martin Rydmark
PowerPoint file size: 2,421 KB

Design and Implementation of Rehabilitation Haptic Simulators with History Units
   I. Goncharenko, M. Svinin, S. Matsumoto, S. Hosoe, Y. Kanou
PowerPoint file size: 1,506 KB
 
Paper Session 2: Cognitive deficits
  Session Chair: Maureen Holden

Applications of Computer as a Cognitive Rehabilitation Tool
   Rosa Maria Esteves Moreira da Costa,
   Luís Alfredo Vidal de Carvalho
PowerPoint file size: 839 KB

Learning and Memory in a Virtual Office Environment
   Robert J. Matheis, M.A. Maria T. Schultheis, and
   Albert A. Rizzo
PowerPoint file size: 8,620 KB

Using Virtual Reality to Examine Hippocampus Functioning in Schizophrenia
   Robert S. Astur, Daniel H. Mathalon, D. Cyril D'Souza,
   John K. Krystal, R. Todd Constable, and Godfrey D. Pearlson
PowerPoint file size: 2,780 KB

Effectiveness of Virtual Realty for Attentional Control to Reduce Children's Pain During Venipuncture
   Greg M. Reger, Albert A. Rizzo, J. Galen Buckwalter,
   Jeff Gold, Rebecca Allen, Raj, Augustine and
   Eitan Mendelowitz
PowerPoint file size: 13,993 KB
Paper Session 3: VR use in Neuro-rehabilitation
  Session Chair: Daniel Thalmann

Virtual Reality and Neurorehabilitation: the concept of Impairment-oriented Training
   Thomas Platz

A virtual reality based exercise system for hand rehabilitation post-stroke
   Adamovich S.V., Merians A., Boian R., Tremaine M.,
   Burdea G., Recce M. and Poizner H.
PowerPoint file size: 6,715 KB

Using a video projected VR system for patients with spinal cord injury
   Rachel Kizony, Liat Raz, Noomi Katz, Harold Weingarden and
   Patrice L. (Tamar) Weiss
Paper Session 4: Novel VR techniques and Bio-feedback devices
    Session Chair: Thomas Platz

Altered walking pattern in VE.
   Björn Sondell, Lillemor Lundin-Olsson, Lars Nyberg,
   Staffan Eriksson, Bjorn Engstrom, Anders Backman, Kenneth
   Holmlund, Gosta Bucht
PowerPoint file size: 18,499 KB

Video projection versus HMD VR system for rehabilitation: Within and between comparisons
   Debbie Rand, Rachel Kizony, Uri Feintuch, Noomi Katz,
   Naomi Josman, A.A. "Skip" Rizzo and
   Patrice L. (Tamar) Weiss
PowerPoint file size: 11,872 KB

Myo-Kinetic Interface for a Virtual Limb
   James A. Flint, Sam L. Phillips and William Craelius
PowerPoint file size: 849 KB

VIA: A Virtual Interface for the Arm of Upper-limb Amputees.
   Manjuladevi Kuttuva, James A. Flint, Grigore Burdea.,
   Am Phillips and William Craelius
PowerPoint file size: 3,223 KB
Paper Session 5: Other aspects of Virtual Rehabilitation
    Session Chair: Skip Rizzo

Building Exposure; Synergy of Interaction and Narration through Social Channels
    Bruno Herbelin - Michal Ponder - Daniel Thalmann
PowerPoint file size: 7,486 KB

Emotions as a mean for enhancing presence in virtual cognitive rehabilitation.
    Mariano Alcañiz, Beatriz Rey, Rosa Baños, Cristina Botella
PowerPoint file size: 2,648 KB

Virtual Reality as a Stress Inoculation Environment for high demanding Emergency Planning and Preparedness
    Ioannis A. Tarnanas, Katerina Tsirgogianni
PowerPoint file size: 309 KB
Government Panel on Funding of Virtual Rehabilitation

Dr. Carol Lucas, the National Science Foundation
PowerPoint file size: 6,103 KB


Dr. Grace Peng, the National Institutes of Health
PowerPoint file size: 1,445 KB


Dr. Robert Ruff, Department of Veterans Affairs
PowerPoint file size: 112 KB


Dr. Daniel Thalmann, EPFL, Switzerland
PowerPoint file size: 503 KB