I³R Researchers Awarded Women's Giving Circle Grant | University of Arkansas - University of Arkansas Newswire

Researchers astatine the Institute for Integrative and Innovative Research were awarded $10,000 by the Women's Giving Circle to survey the usage of neuro-haptic feedback successful virtual world for sensorimotor rehabilitation.

Assistant probe prof Andres Pena and doctoral chap Aliyah Shell are collaborating connected the project "Making 'Sense' of Sensorimotor Rehabilitation successful Virtual Reality." They identified a request for sensorimotor rehabilitation therapy that is accessible and meets the request for grooming frequency, particularly successful the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic. Virtual reality, with its comparatively debased outgo and portability, appears to clasp large committedness for telerehabilitation, enabling patients to bid and rehabilitate astatine home.

Pena and Shell volition utilize technologies developed by the Adaptive Neural Systems Group astatine I³R and volition collaborate with the AgeingOn Research Group astatine the University of the Basque Country successful Spain and Dr. Ana Rodriguez Larrad to analyse the relation sensory feedback plays successful the usage of interventions specified arsenic exoskeletons and restoring centrifugal function.

"I americium excited to beryllium portion of this innovative squad moving to span the sensory spread successful virtual world with our caller technology, ExtendedTouch." Shell said. "Given the magnitude of radical successful the federation who unrecorded with sensorimotor impairments and deficiency entree to rehabilitation, the probe result of this enactment volition person the imaginable to marque important impacts connected our society. I privation to convey the Women's Giving Circle for seeing the imaginativeness of our enactment and I3R for the continued support."

The Women's Giving Circle is made up of U of A alumni, faculty, unit and friends of the assemblage and was created to promote women arsenic philanthropic leaders. Members of the ellipse marque yearly contributions to make funds for the yearly awards, and these contributions are pooled unneurotic and awarded to selected recipients who implicit the assistance connection process. 

Pena and Shell volition usage the funds to acquisition virtual/augmented world headsets, neurostimulation electrodes and prototyping supplies, and to enactment study-participant compensation funds.