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Events Calendar

Posted on Mar 1, 2023

We’re back in the swing of things and looking forward to engaging with you at these upcoming meetings!

Upcoming MeetingsDateLocationBooth Number
ASNR  Annual MeetingMarch 13-17, 2023CharlestonN/A
Neural Control of Movement 2023April 17 – 21, 2023Victoria, BCTable #1
World Congress of Neurology Oct 15-19, 2023Montreal, QC#TBD
Neuroscience 2023 (SfN Annual Meeting)  Nov 11-15, 2023, 9:30-5pmWashington, DC#TBD
AAN 2024  #TBD

 

Filed Under: Events, Neuroscience

Dexterit-E & Dexterit-E Explorer 3.10 has been released!

Posted on Feb 24, 2023

After a year and a half of hard work, the design and development teams at Kinarm are pleased to simultaneously release:
  • Dexterit-E™ 3.10.0; and
  • Dexterit-E Explorer™  3.10.0
Some of the more noteworthy changes in Dexterit-E & Explorer 3.10.0 include:
  • For Kinarm Standard Tests
    • New Test: Paired Associates Learning
    • Video instructions
    • Updated Analysis for Arm Posture Perturbation: per our product advisory, the rare event in the task has been corrected.
    • Updated analysis of VGR & RVGR:
      • To better handle rare instances where Movement Time could look worse as a subject is improving.
      • To avoid rare instances of very large values for Path Length Ratio.
      • Updated RVGR’s Direction Errors parameter to be scaled by the number of completed trials when calculating Z-scores (i.e., for partial exams).
    • Enhanced Analysis Export for more efficient (re)analysis of database records
  • Task Development: Exoskeleton users can now define targets using the global frame of reference
  • Kinarm Gaze-Tracker now uses an efficient 5-point calibration
  • See the release notes for a full list of new features:
    • Dexterit-E Release Notes 
    • Dexterit-E Explorer Release Notes 
  • Please note that Win7 “black case” Dexterit-E computers are not supported by this release (last shipped 2015).
All installers are available for download once logged into the Support website Software Downloads page. Please see the linked release notes for a complete list of changes and fixes.

Instructions for upgrading from 3.9 to 3.10:

  1. Go to the Kinarm website Support-Software Downloads page:  http://www.kinarm.com/support/software-downloads/
  2. Login or request an account:
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  3. Download Dexterit-E 3.10.0 and the Task Development Kit 3.10.0 from the Software Downloads page.
  4. Install the software and run Dexterit-E 3.10.0 .
  5. Send the displayed Computer ID to support@kinarm.com.
  6. Kinarm support will send back a license key.
  7. Start Dexterit-E 3.10.0 again and enter the license key provided by Kinarm support.
  8. Rebuild all existing Custom Tasks using the Kinarm Task Development Kit 3.10.0.
  9. Review the updated manuals available on our website.
Instructions for upgrading Dexterit-E Explorer 
  1. Go to the Kinarm website Support-Software Downloads page:  http://www.kinarm.com/support/software-downloads. No login is required.
  2. Scroll down to Dexterit-E Explorer.
  3. Select your operating system.
  4. Download and run the installer.
  5. Mac users may need to allow the application to “open anyway” through your Security settings.
If you did not upgrade to Dexterit-E 3.9, and are jumping from 3.8 or earlier, you will need to:
  • upgrade to Dexterit-E Explorer 3.10.0 at the same time.
    • As of Dexterit-E 3.9, Dex uses a new file format to save exam data that is not backward compatible with previous (1.5 and earlier) releases of Dexterit-E Explorer.
  • obtain the latest release of the Kinarm Analysis Scripts in order to load data recorded with Dexterit-E 3.9 or later. The updated MATLAB scripts are backwards compatible with previous releases and include several enhancements for usability and performance.
  • contact support@kinarm.com to obtain a new license key for Dexterit-E 3.10. 
    • As always, Dexterit-E Explorer does not require a license and can be run on any Windows 64 bit or Mac OSx computer.
If you have any difficulty with the upgrade or want to give us feedback, please don’t hesitate to contact us at: support@kinarm.com
We look forward to your feedback on the new features,
 
The Development Team at Kinarm
 
Kinarm Support

Filed Under: Kinarm News, Product Notices

Neuroscience 2022: November 13-16, 2022, San Diego Convention Centre, Booth #2631

Posted on Nov 1, 2022

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

Filed Under: Events, Kinarm News, Neuroscience

Queen’s Cinq à Sept Research Talks: You can’t fix what you can’t see!

Posted on Apr 26, 2022

With thanks to Queen’s Faculty of Health Sciences for this post.

Video featuring Dr. Stephen Scott

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 »

Filed Under: Kinarm News

Learn more about the Arm Movement Matching task from its developers

Posted on Jul 20, 2021

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.

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Kinarm Camp 2023: Camp is Full!

Posted on Feb 28, 2023

If you would like to be added to the wait list, please email: Camp@kinarm.com

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Filed Under: Events, KINARM Camp, Kinarm News

Product Advisory: Arm Posture Perturbation, Dex 3.9 bug found – FIXED

Posted on Feb 24, 2023

As of 24-Feb-23 this bug has been fixed, with the release of Dexterit-E 3.10

Description of the bug

A bug was found in the Arm Posture Perturbation (Dexterit-E Version 3.9) task that allowed a trial without a perturbation to occur under rare conditions. This situation will occur if the subject leaves the target (after the background load has been applied) and does not return for 10 seconds. This behaviour  causes the trial to time out. At this point, the next trial will run without background loads. All following trials will run correctly. This erroneous trial would be analyzed incorrectly as if it had background loads.

Correction Plan

The task has been corrected in Dexterit-E 3.10 (to be released Feb-23) so that this situation will not occur. Additionally, the analysis in Dexterit-E 3.10 has been updated to recognize these trials that do not contain loads and properly exclude them from analysis. We strongly recommend reanalyzing all Arm Posture Perturbation data that you have collected once you’ve upgraded to Dexterit-E 3.10.

Impact of the bug

A review of nearly 900 impaired assessments from 195 individuals who were assessed with this task found that about 10% of assessments contained timeouts and therefore would be affected by this issue. Of those affected assessments 70% had 4 or fewer timeouts. At that level we expect the Task Score would increase by 0.5 or less with the updated analysis. The maximum number of timeouts possible is approximately 10. At that number of timeouts we would expect an increase in task score of approximately 2 with the updated analysis.

If you are concerned about the integrity of your analysis, please contact Kinarm support.  We can help identify specifically impacted data files.

Filed Under: Product Notices

3.9 Released: Dexterit-E & Dexterit-E Explorer are Now Available *Update: Dexterit-E 3.9.4 Released*

Posted on Nov 1, 2022

 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.

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Filed Under: Kinarm News, Product Notices

Virtual Kinarm Camp 2022: we are full!

Posted on Apr 19, 2022

We are now full for our 9th annual Kinarm Camp, will be held Monday, May 16 – Friday, May 20, 2022 ‘virtually’ from ~ 10 am to 4 pm EDST.

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Filed Under: Events, KINARM Camp

Technical Bulletin: Kinarm Gaze-Tracker; Impact of Reducing the Number Calibration Targets

Posted on Feb 8, 2022

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.

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Filed Under: Kinarm News, Product Notices

Kinarm User Exchange & Learning (KUEL): Best Practices for Gaze Tracking

Posted on Feb 8, 2022

**Post event update: a recording of this event is available here.**

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