[UCI-Calit2] Tuesday seminar: Robotics and Computer Gaming for Sensory Motor Restoration

Stuart Ross stuross at calit2.uci.edu
Mon Aug 20 15:51:09 PDT 2012


SURF-IT SEMINAR SERIES

Summer Undergraduate Fellowships in Information Technology

California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology

 

"Robotics and Computer Gaming for Sensory Motor Restoration" 

Dr. David Reinkensmeyer

Department of Mechanical Engineering 

 

Tuesday, August 21, 2012    11:45 AM

Room 3008, Calit2 Building

A light lunch will be available at 11:45; the seminar will begin at
12:00

The seminar is open to the public.

Prof. Reinkensmeyer's research interests are in neuromuscular control,
motor learning, robotics, and rehabilitation. A major goal is to develop
physically interacting, robotic and mechatronic devices to help the
nervous system recover arm, hand, and leg movement after neurologic
injuries. Another goal is to understand the computational mechanisms of
human motor learning, in order to provide a rational basis for designing
movement training devices. His laboratory has developed a variety of
robotic devices for manipulating and measuring movement in humans and
rodents. These devices are being used to investigate the role of
mechanical assistance in retraining arm movement following stroke, the
feasibility of providing movement training remotely using the Internet,
and the role of sensory information in locomotor plasticity after spinal
cord injury. 

Dr. Reinkensmeyer received the B.S. degree in electrical engineering
from MIT, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from
UC Berkeley. He was a postdoctoral fellow and then research assistant
professor in the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago and the Department
of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at Northwestern University
Medical School. He joined UCI in 1998; here he also holds joint
appointments in the Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology and the
Department of Biomedical Engineering. 

The SURF-IT student working on the project is Gregory Zambrano, a
Mechanical Engineering major.

 

 

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