Achievement

This reporting year, Nicole Lehrer, a fourth year Media Arts and Sciences Ph.D. student and member of the Mixed Reality Health Module, led two companion papers that were accepted for publication by the Journal of Neuroengineering and Rehabilitation (impact factor of 2.64), which features interdisciplinary research across neuroscience, biomedical engineering and physical medicine and rehabilitation. The journal has reported that both papers have high access statistics since their publication. These papers seek to disseminate a novel design methodology for interactive stroke rehabilitation that fuses motor learning principles with concepts from human-computer interaction and media arts. Part I of these companion papers presents generalizable principles for designing interactive systems for stroke rehabilitation, while Part 2 describes an application of these principles within the implementation of a mixed reality system for the upper limb rehabilitation of stroke survivors.