International Society for Virtual Rehabilitation (ISVR) newsletter - 7th Issue
The April 2016 issue of the International Society for Virtual Rehabilitation (ISVR) newsletter is here! In this issue we feature the Sensorama Lab in Denmark, the Centro Médico da Murtosa in Portugal and the recent startup neuroathome.
We are looking forward to your contribution! Please contact us at newsletter@isvr.org or join our mailing list: http://isvr.org/join-our-mailing-list/
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"We hope you have had a great start to 2016. As part of our ongoing features to highlight recent work in the advancement of virtual reality technologies for rehabilitation, we have included three profiles in this edition of the newsletter. The Technology Profile features the work of Anthony Brooks’ Lab at Aarlborg University in Denmark. The Sensorama Lab has recently undergone a number of changes but they are continuing to develop a range of different interactive VR and mobile technologies with a focus on health and education. The Clinical Profile highlights work at Gabriel Costa’s clinics at Centro Médico da Murtosa in Portugal. Three virtual reality systems are being used in 12 clinics providing interventions aimed a range of different populations. In the last edition of the newsletter, we added a Rehabilitation Startup profile to support and highlight the emerging interest in commercialization of virtual reality and mobile technologies for rehabilitation. Our featured startup in this edition of the ISVR newsletter is NeuroAtHome. The system uses several interactive devices such as touchscreens and the Microsoft Kinect sensor to provide physical and cognitive exercises for people with neurological impairments in the hospital, clinical and home settings. In 2015, NeuroAtHome received a Microsoft Health Innovation Award for innovation in care delivery.
In the last newsletter, we announced the inauguration of the ISVR Early Career Investigator Award. The purpose of this award is to recognize and acknowledge outstanding contributions by early career scientists whose research relates to virtual rehabilitation. The call for nominations for the award closed on April 1, 2016. The nominations have been received and the winner and runner up will be announced at the International Conference on Disability Virtual Reality and Associated Technologies in Los Angeles, California in September this year.
We have listed three new books that might be of interest to you and four upcoming conferences. We are always looking for interesting news from our membership, so if you have something exciting to share, such as a meeting announcement or news from your clinic or lab, please pass it on to our newsletter team (see the email address on the bottom right of this page). If you are interested in writing a Technology, Clinical or Rehabilitation startup profile, please contact the newsletter team.
Finally, in our ISVR Society News section, you will notice that we have added a new category of membership for clinicians. We are reaching out to rehabilitation clinicians who have been using or want to use VR technology in their clinical practice. We encourage clinicians to join the society (membership is free for the first year!) and to enter into a dialog with researchers and technology developers to share experiences and work together to facilitate technology uptake in the clinical milieu, through our ISVR forums, Facebook and Twitter.
Happy reading and hope to see you all this fall at the 11th ICDVRAT in September!
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