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Troy K. Biomechanical validation of upper extremity exercise in wheelchair users: design considerations and improvements in a prototype device. Disability and Rehabilitation: Assistive Technology, 2011;6 (1): 1–7

Hiremath SV and Ding D. Evaluation of activity monitors in manual wheelchair users with paraplegia. Journal of Spinal Cord Medicine. 2011;34(1):110-117

Zhang S,Banerjee P, Luciano C. Immersive Virtual Exercise Environment for People with Lower Body Disabilities. SIGACCESS NEWSLETTER, ISSUE 99, JAN 2011

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Rimmer JH, Yamaki K, Davis-Lowry B, Wang E, Vogel LC. Obesity and Overweight Prevalence in Adolescents with Disabilities. Preventing Chronic Disease. In press.

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Ding D, Hiremath S, Kelleher A,  Cooper R.  Using SenseWear® Armband to Evaluate Energy Expenditure in Manual Wheelchair Users with SCI. Paper presented at : The 4th International State-of-the-art Congress;  April 2009 Amsterdam.

Gmuender JJ, Hurley SL, Axelson P.  Wheelchair Stability Tests while using Fitness Equipment. Paper presented at: The 2010 Conference of the Rehabilitation Engineering and Assistive Technology Society of North America (RESNA); June 2010; Las Vegas, NV.

Hilderbrand H, Hurley SL, Axelson P. Measuring Luminance Color Contrast on Products, Including Fitness Equipment, for People with Visual Impairments. Paper presented at: The 2010 Conference of the Rehabilitation Engineering and Assistive Technology Society of North America (RESNA); June 2010; Las Vegas, NV.

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RESNA Workshop’09

RERC RecTech has partnership with Segal Design Institute, Northwestern University. Through this partnership they conducted a workshop at RESNA. The PIs of RERC Bruce Ankenman and Stacy Benjamin presented the session title on “Using rehabilitation projects to teach user-centered design to engineering students”. The workshop discussed many of the best practices that have evolved during this time period, to enable students to successfully implement rehabilitation projects in their design courses with a shorter learning curve.

Specific topics included project selection criteria and evaluation, student/client/user interaction points, and creating effective mockups for user testing. The workshop combined lecture material, video and audience interaction activities.

The workshop had a very good response. When asked for the attendees suggestions they commented that it was a great session and very well designed. Some suggested discussing the problem solution aspects of the program in more detail. In future they have recommended covering topics to show how this works in multi-disciplinary setting and upper level design projects.