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Current Projects
Aging-in-Place
- Intelligent Personal Emergency Response (PERS) and Fall Detection System
- Automated Speech Recognition for a Personal Emergency Response System
- Brick Computing: Embedded, Autonomous, and Passive Physiological Monitoring
- Automated Analysis of Functional Balance
- An Automated Tool for Detecting and Preventing Unsafe Stair Use by Older Adults
Older Adults with Dementia
- Intelligent Supportive Environments for ADL Prompting with Older Adults (COACH)
- Anti-collision and Navigation Systems for Powered Wheelchairs
- Identifying Effective Communication Strategies Utilized by Caregivers Interacting with Individuals Diagnosed with Alzheimer’s Disease
- A Systems Analysis to support Independent Living (SAIL): Toward effective technologies used by people with mild to moderate Alzheimer's Disease residing at home
- Designing a simple technology interface to help dementia caregivers use COACH in the home
- An Assessment Tool to Identify Assistive Technologies to Support Community-Dwelling Older Adults with Dementia
Children with Autism
Rehabilitation and Support for Disabilities
- Intelligent Haptic Robotic Device for Upper-Limb Stroke Patients
- Sensory Conflict Neuro-Rehabilitation
Collaborative Projects
- An Intelligent Supportive Environment for Completing a Factory Assembly Task: The NCAPS project (COACH@Work)
- CanWheel: Improving wheeled mobility of older adults
- ePAD: Computer-based Facilitation of Creative Expression Activities for Older Adults with Dementia
Past Projects
- 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
