Using Virtual Reality to Examine the Neural and Physiological Anxiety-Related Responses to Balance-Demanding Target-Reaching Leaning Tasks, by Rachneet Kaur, Rongyi Sun, Liran Ziegelman, Richard Sowers, and Manuel E. Hernandez has been accepted to 2019 IEEE-RAS 19th International Conference on Humanoid Robots.

Exploring Characteristic Features in Gait Patterns for Predicting Multiple Sclerosis, by Rachneet Kaur, Sanjana Menon, Xiaomiao Zhang, Richard Sowers,  and Manuel Hernandez, has been accepted to the 41th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (2019).

Using Virtual Reality to Examine the Neural and Physiological Responses to Height and Perturbations in Quiet Standing, by Rachneet Kaur, Rongyi Sun, Liran Ziegelman, Richard Sowers, and Manuel Hernandez, has been accepted to the 41th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC’19).

Rachneet Kaur will be presenting a poster Predicting Multiple sclerosis disorder from gait patterns, at the
9th International IEEE EMBS Conference On Neural
Engineering (NER’19)

Congratulations, Rachneet Kaur, for being awarded a scholarship to attend the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing (GHC) workshop to present a poster A Brain Computer Interface Approach To Examine Changes In Anxiety While Walking In A Virtually Infinite World.

Body-in-the-loop control of soft robotic exoskeletons during virtual manual labor tasks, by Manuel E. Hernandez, Richard Sowers, Nicholas Thompson, Girish Krishnan, and Elizabeth T. Hsiao-Wecksler, has been accepted to ICRA 2018.

Congratulations, Rachneet Kaur, for winning 2nd place in the Spring 2018 ISE Graduate Student Travel Award Poster presentation for her poster Visual Cliffs, Virtual Reality, and Movement Disorders (presented at the 2017 INFORMS Annual Meeting).

Congratulations, Yiyang Kong, of Virtual Reality, Visual Cliff, and Movement Disorders IGL project; Yiyang will be pursing graduate studies at Carnegie Mellon University

Virtual Reality, Visual Cliffs, and Movement Disorders, by Rachneet Kaur, Xun Lin, Alexander Layton, Manuel Hernandez, and Richard Sowers, has been accepted to the 40th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society.

Congratulations,  Rachneet Kaur, on being named a William A. Chittenden II Fellow for 2018-2019.

Congratulations, IGL-ers: The 2017 IGL project “Virtual Reality, Visual Cliffs, and Movement Disorders” has been selected as the winner of the 2018 IGL Research Award.

The pilot proposal Feasibility of virtual reality and brain-computer interface technology for neurorehabilitation of fall-related anxiety in frail older adults, by M. Hernandez (lead), S. LaValle, R. Sowers, and G. Yershova, has been funded by the Collaborations in Healthy Aging Research and Technology program at UIUC.

“A Brain Computer Interface Approach To Examine Changes In Motion Patterns While Walking In A Virtually Infinite World,” by Rachneet Kaur, Daan Michiels, Richard Sowers, and Manuel Hernandez, and  has been accepted in the general poster session of the INFORMS 2017 Annual Meeting.

‘A Brain Computer Interface Approach To Examine Changes In Anxiety While Walking In A Virtually Infinite World’, by Rachneet Kaur, Daan Michiels, Vivek Kaushik, Martin Bantchev, Manuel Hernandez, Richard Sowers, accepted as a poster presentation at the 2017 Biomedical Engineering Society Annual Meeting

R.S. is a collaborator on a funded Jump/Arches proposal (M. Hernandez and D. Lamichhane are the PI’s) ‘Simulation of postural dysfunction in Parkinson’s disease’.

Final Poster for 2017 Spring IGL project on Visual Cliffs, Virtual Reality and Movement Disorders

• Students (undergraduate students): Martin Bantchev, Shruti Goli, Vivek Kaushik, Anirudh Manoj, Dongjun Seung, Shreya Sharma, Cong Shen
• Project leaders (graduate students): Rachneet Kaur, Daan Michiels

Co-sponsored by Professor Manuel Hernandez, UIUC Dept. of Kinesiology

Daan Michiels, graduate mentor in a Spring 2017 IGL project, has been mentioned in Scientific American for prior work in virtual reality.

Midterm Poster for 2017 Spring IGL project on Visual Cliffs, Virtual Reality and Movement Disorders

• Students (undergraduate students): Martin Bantchev, Shruti Goli, Vivek Kaushik, Anirudh Manoj, Dongjun Seung, Shreya Sharma, Cong ShenShindnes, Haozhe Wang, Jing Wang, Ziying Wang, Yu Wu, Bin Xu
• Project leaders (graduate students): Rachneet Kaur, Daan Michiels

Co-sponsored by Professor Manuel Hernandez, UIUC Dept. of Kinesiology