Events

We are excited to be informing our users that we are hosting a first-time virtual event, the Kinarm User Knowledge Exchange: Best Practices for Gaze Tracking.

This upcoming event is inspired by Kinarm users who have expressed enthusiasm in organizing knowledge sharing events akin to our previous ‘Kinarm Paloozas’ held at Queen’s University. The event will serve as an opportunity for Kinarm users to share knowledge about their use of the Kinarm Gaze-Tracker with Kinarm Robots (either End-Point or Exoskeleton) and for Kinarm staff to speak to new enhancements and address questions.

This event will take place over Zoom on Thursday, February 10, 2022 between 10 am – 12 pm EST.

We are allotting the first hour for select Labs to present their research with the Kinarm Gaze-Tracker. The second hour will include a short presentation by our Vice-President, Ian Brown and a moderated forum where staff and users can discuss and answer questions regarding best practices.

If you are interested in attending, please use this Google form [link address: https://forms.gle/Tq2dG8mem6aNpupVA] to RSVP and if applicable, indicate interest to present your research. The registration deadline is Friday, January 14, 2022.

We may very well host more knowledge sharing events on other topics of interest in the future, so please stay tuned!

Can robotic technology bring neurological assessment into the 21st century?
Stephen H. Scott
Centre for Neuroscience Studies, Dept. of Biomedical and Molecular Sciences, Queen’s University, Kingston, ON K7L 3N6 Canada

Location: KITE, University Health Network, Toronto

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Customers of BKIN Technologies can receive preferential registration rates for the upcoming RehabWeek conference in Toronto, June 2019.

In order to apply the membership discount, please proceed as follows:

• Choose that you are a member of IISART during the registration process (https://www.rehabweek.org/registration/)
• Enter the company-specific code IISART-BKIN-182584
• When asked which conference you mainly plan to attend, choose INRS. This does not mean you cannot attend other conferences during the RehabWeek, but it helps to allocate resources.

Please feel free to share the code.

 

Dr Sean Dukelow, July 18, 2017 

Long-time KINARM Lab user, Dr. Sean Dukelow, spoke at the International Neurorehabilitation Symposium in London, UK last week.  INRS was one of four conferences that bound together for the biennial installment of RehabWeek.   In his session, he described his research related to identifying and quantifying neurological impairments from stroke, concussion, CP and other disorders.  He spoke of his long-term longitudinal study monitoring outcomes from over 100 subjects with stroke. Over the 6 month period he noted clear differences between early responders, late responders and non-responders. His results highlight the need for more sensitive, targeted identification of sensory and motor deficits to optimize rehabilitation after stroke. Further he has noted that the trajectory of recovery for some individuals with mild to moderate stroke may be much longer than previously considered. underlined the need for better characterization of impairments post stroke (Semrau, et al, 2015).

Semrau, J.A., Herter, T.M., Scott, S.H., Dukelow, S.P.  (2015) Examining Differences in Patterns of Sensory and Motor Recovery After Stroke With Robotics Stroke 2015 Dec; DOI:10.1161/STROKEAHA.115.010750