Achievement

Margaret Duff is a fourth year IGERT Bioengineering PhD student. Margaret is the student lead in organizing the clinical study at Banner Baywood Medical Center to test the efficacy of the Adaptive Mixed Reality Rehabilitation (AMRR) system for stroke survivors. She also creates interactive tangible objects to sense and track the hand position and force during the AMRR therapy. Data from these objects will be used to create algorithms to categorize different types of interaction and grasping, solely through sensors on the objects. Margaret recently had a journal paper accepted at the high impact IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering. The paper summarizes a pilot study where three stroke survivors trained on the AMRR had significant improvements in kinematic attributes related to reaching and grasping. Very promising data from the current clinical study will lead to two more high impact publications this summer.