Session Listing

Day One (Sunday, Sept 21)

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

  Dr. Albert (Skip) Rizzo, University of Southern California

    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

  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

  A Virtual-Reality based motor tele-rehabilitation system
  Lamberto Piron, Paolo Tonin, Andrea Atzori, Elena Trivello, and Mauro Dam

  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

  Design and Implementation of Rehabilitation Haptic Simulators with History Units
  I. Goncharenko, M. Svinin, S. Matsumoto, S. Hosoe, Y. Kanou

    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

  Learning and Memory in a Virtual Office Environment
  Robert J. Matheis, M.A. Maria T. Schultheis, and Albert A. Rizzo

  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

  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

    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.

  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

    Poster Session
 

   Development of increasingly complex virtual environments for locomotor training after
   stroke
   Comeau, F., Chapdelaine, S., McFadyen, B.J., Malouin, F., Lamontagne, A., Galiana, L.,
   Laurendeau, D., Richards, C.L., and Fung, J.

   Driving Scenarios for Virtual Assessment
   Ronald R. Mourant and Beverly K. Jaeger

   Dual Stewart-platform Gait Rehabilitation System for Individuals Post-Stroke
   R. F. Boian, H. Kourtev, K. Erickson, J.E. Deutsch, J.A. Lewis, G.C. Burdea

   Implementing a Data Glove with Tactile Feedback for VR Experiments using fMRI
   Jeonghun Ku, Richard Mraz, Nicole Baker, Konstantine K. Zakzanis, Jang Han Lee, In Y. Kim, Sun I.
   Kim, and Simon J. Graham

   Large-Scale Computational Models for Adaptive Sensorimotor Control in Virtual
   Environments
   Craig Carignan and José Contreras-Vidal

   Physical Activity-Based Virtual Reality: A Psychophysical Ergotherapy Model
   Patricia Heyn and Beatriz C. Abreu

   Real Time Computer Aided Feedback Device for Delivery of Treatment Forces for Low Back
   Pain
   M.R. Gudavalli and James M. Cox

   Robotic Rehabilitation and Diagnosis using Bilateral Force Feedback over the Internet
   Craig Carignan, Kevin Cleary, H. Igo Krebs, and Andy Tannenbaum

   The use of immersive virtual reality in the rehabilitation of the upper limb after stroke.
   McDonough SM, Crosbie, JH and McNeill, MDJ

   Vision-based Hand Rehabilitation System
   Chan-Su Lee and Grigore C. Burdea

Day Two (Monday, Sept 22)
    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

  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

  Myo-Kinetic Interface for a Virtual Limb
  James A. Flint, Sam L. Phillips and William Craelius

  VIA: A Virtual Interface for the Arm of Upper-limb Amputees.
  Manjuladevi Kuttuva, James A. Flint, Grigore Burdea., Am Phillips and William Craelius

    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

   A Neuroimaging Study of Task Loading and Executive Function Using a Virtual Apartment
   Stephen Baumann

   Emotions as a mean for enhancing presence in virtual cognitive rehabilitation.
   Mariano Alcañiz, Beatriz Rey, Rosa Baños, Cristina Botella

   Virtual Reality as a Stress Inoculation Environment for high demanding Emergency
   Planning and Preparedness
   Ioannis A. Tarnanas, Katerina Tsirgogianni

    Government Panel on Funding of Virtual Rehabilitation
  Dr. Carol Lucas, the National Science Foundation
  Dr. Grace Peng, the National Institute of Health
  Dr. Robert Ruff, Department of Veterans Affairs
  Dr. Daniel Thalmann, EPFL, Switzerland
 
    CAIP Center Laboratory Demonstrations