At the International Conference on Virtual Rehabilitation 2011, Karmen Franinovic will talk about the design of interfaces for stroke rehabilitation grounded in user-centered methods. The talk entitled Integrating VR rehabilitation in daily life will present two recent IAD projects: the Arm Coach by Samuel Bauer and Dinis Meier and the HandsOn by Michael Huber. This lecture was invited by Prof. Dr. Andreas Luft (University Hospital Zurich) as a part of the Virtual Reality for Arm Therapy session taking place on Monday 27 June 2011 at the ETH Hönggerberg.
See full program: http://www.virtual-rehab.org/2011/program.html#workshops
Bachelor Project
HANDS|on is a supportive device for home rehabilitation after stroke. When working on a PC, most patients only use one hand. GESTURE|band and DUAL|mouse integrate the impaired hand and allow easier working with therapeutic progress as side effect.
Karmen is an architect and designer working with critical and playful uses of technology in everyday life. She pursues research in fields of sonic interaction, responsive environments, basic design, enaction and ...