We are pleased to announce that registration for our 10th annual Kinarm Camp is now open!
The camp will be held on-line Monday, May 15 – Friday, May 19, 2023 from ~ 10 am to 4 pm EDST.
Neuroscience 2022: November 13-16, 2022, San Diego Convention Centre, Booth #2631
WOW! It really is going to happen: an in-person exhibit hall! We can’t wait to see you again and to provide the opportunity see TWO Kinarm Labs in action. You have to ‘try it to believe it’!
Ian, Paul and Anne are travelling to San Diego to answer your tough questions and give demonstrations of our Kinarm End-Point Lab and Kinarm Exoskeleton Lab.
Send Anne a note if you want to pre-book your visit to avoid a wait!
Exhibit hours: 9:30-5 pm, Sunday through Wednesday
3.9 Released: Dexterit-E & Dexterit-E Explorer are Now Available *Update: Dexterit-E 3.9.4 Released*
Dexterit-E 3.9.4 patch has been released to address a significant MATLAB bug affecting the collection of Gaze data. This bug only affects users of MATLAB 2019b and Dexterit-E 3.9.
Queen’s Cinq à Sept Research Talks: You can’t fix what you can’t see!
With thanks to Queen’s Faculty of Health Sciences for this post.
Dr. Stephen Scott
Professor, Department of Biomedical and Molecular Sciences (cross appointed to the Department of Medicine)
Incoming Vice Dean Research for Queen’s Health Sciences
Dr. Scott stars in the role of researcher – and inventor – in this exploration of the impact of his robot, Kinarm, which is changing the way we understand the brain. The groundbreaking robot allows researchers to perform clinical testing to assess a broad range of brain functions including motor skills, perception, memory, and decision making.
Trained in systems designs engineering, and with a background in physiology, Dr. Scott has combined two areas of expertise into something incredible. Kinarm is used to assess neurological impairments related to stroke, MS, ALS, Transient Ischemic Attacks, Parkinson’s disease, kidney dialysis, and more.
Dr. Scott holds the GSK Chair in Neuroscience and has won several awards for innovative research. He is widely respected in Canada as a forward thinker and a team researcher, with a huge number of collaborations across disciplines; you’ll see why through his Research Talk.
Watch now »
Technical Bulletin: Kinarm Gaze-Tracker; Impact of Reducing the Number Calibration Targets
Abstract:
The 13-point calibration routine for the Kinarm Gaze-Tracker is slow, and often difficult to achieve a good subject calibration with, often requiring multiple calibration attempts. Two factors contribute to these problems: the large number of target locations used in the calibration routine and the large size of the region over which the calibration is performed. This study quantified the effects on calibration accuracy when each of these factors was reduced. The results show that reducing the number of targets from 13 to 5 has a small impact on calibration accuracy (1.0±0.6° vs 1.1±0.7°) while significantly reducing the total time for the calibration routine. Further, reducing the size of the 5-point calibration region from 100% to 70% had only a marginal increase in uncertainty (1.2±0.9°). It is recommended that for most Kinarm users a 5-point calibration routine will save time without sacrificing the quality of the collected data.
Impact of COVID 19: recovery phase
Like all businesses around the world, we are feeling the impacts of COVID 19. To keep you abreast of the impact, we’ve started this blog:
Learn more about the Arm Movement Matching task from its developers
Kinarm’s President and CEO Anne Vivian-Scott sat down with Dr. Sean Dukelow and Dr. Jennifer Semrau, the developers of the Arm Movement Matching (‘Kines’) task to discuss its utility in understanding kinesthesia.
Kinarm Labs Now Available to Brainbox Clients
Kinarm welcomes Brainbox as a value-added reseller of Kinarm Labs, bridging Kinarm Labs’ strength in the quantitative assessment of brain injury into the rapidly advancing field of neurostimulation.
Kinarm End-Point Lab (PN 14332) Released
We are pleased to announce the release of our latest model of Kinarm End-Point Lab, PN 14332.
This updated design includes many “under-the-hood” enhancements that preserve the ‘feel’ and function of the old Kinarm End-Point robot (PN 10288, first released in 2010) while bringing the overall electronics design up to current day standards.
To an experienced user, you may find it difficult to find the differences!
Stephen Scott spoke at KITE, UHN, June 28, 2020
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