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Am Johal interviews co-authors Matt Hern and Selena Couture.
Author (aut): Hern, Matt, Author (aut): Couture, Selena, Author (aut): Johal, Am
Date created: 2019-07-08
Author (aut): Taylor, Audrey K., Author (aut): Perez, Diane S., Author (aut): Zhang, Xin, Author (aut): Pilapil, Brandy K., Author (aut): Engelhard, Mark H., Author (aut): Gates, Byron D., Author (aut): Rider, David A.
Date created: 2017-09-27
Author (aut): Zhang, Cheng, Author (aut): Zhou, James H.-W., Author (aut): Sameoto, Dan, Author (aut): Zhang, Xin, Author (aut): Li, Yasong, Author (aut): Ng, Him Wai, Author (aut): Menon, Carlo, Author (aut): Gates, Byron D.
Date created: 2012-08-10
The full text of this paper will be available in Mar 2022 due to the embargo policies of Journal of Hazardous Materials. Contact summit@sfu.ca to enquire if the full text of the accepted manuscript can be made available to you.
Author (aut): Belhaj Abdallah, Bouchra, Author (aut): Zhang, Xin, Author (aut): Andreu, Irene, Author (aut): Gates, Byron D., Author (aut): El Mokni, Ridha, Author (aut): Rubino, Stefano, Author (aut): Landoulsi, Ahmed, Author (aut): Chatti, Abdelwaheb
Date created: 2019-11-08
Stroke is one of the leading causes of permanent disability in adults. The literature suggests that rehabilitation is key to early motor recovery. However, conventional therapy is labor and cost intensive. Robotic and functional electrical stimulation (FES) devices can provide a high dose of repetitions and as such may provide an alternative, or an adjunct, to conventional rehabilitation therapy. Brain-computer interfaces (BCI) could augment neuroplasticity by introducing mental training. However, mental training alone is not enough; but combining mental with physical training could boost outcomes. In the current case study, a portable rehabilitative platform and goal-oriented supporting training protocols were introduced and tested with a chronic stroke participant. A novel training method was introduced with the proposed rehabilitative platform. A 37-year old individual with chronic stroke participated in 6-weeks of training (18 sessions in total, 3 sessions a week, and 1 h per session). In this case study, we show that an individual with chronic stroke can tolerate a 6-week training bout with our system and protocol. The participant was actively engaged throughout the training. Changes in the Wolf Motor Function Test (WMFT) suggest that the training positively affected arm motor function (12% improvement in WMFT score).
Author (aut): Zhang, Xin, Author (aut): Elnady, Ahmed M., Author (aut): Randhawa, Bubblepreet K., Author (aut): Boyd, Lara A., Author (aut): Menon, Carlo
Date created: 2018-04-03
Author (aut): Zhang, Xin, Author (aut): Park, Hyeong-Ho, Author (aut): Choi, Yong-June, Author (aut): Park, Hyung-Ho , Author (aut): Hill, Ross
Date created: 2011
The full text of this paper will be available in July, 2021 due to the embargo policies of Advanced Optical Materials for works funded by Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC). Contact summit@sfu.ca to enquire if the full text of the accepted manuscript can be made available to you.
Author (aut): Zhang, Xin, Author (aut): Ali, Rana Faryad , Author (aut): Boyer, John‐Christopher , Author (aut): Branda, Neil R., Author (aut): Gates, Byron D.
Date created: 2020-07-26
Electroencephalography (EEG) has recently been considered for use in rehabilitation of people with motor deficits. EEG data from the motor imagery of different body movements have been used, for instance, as an EEG-based control method to send commands to rehabilitation devices that assist people to perform a variety of different motor tasks. However, it is both time and effort consuming to go through data collection and model training for every rehabilitation task. In this paper, we investigate the possibility of using an EEG model from one type of motor imagery (e.g.: elbow extension and flexion) to classify EEG from other types of motor imagery activities (e.g.: open a drawer). In order to study the problem, we focused on the elbow joint. Specifically, nine kinesthetic motor imagery tasks involving the elbow were investigated in twelve healthy individuals who participated in the study. While results reported that models from goal-oriented motor imagery tasks had higher accuracy than models from the simple joint tasks in intra-task testing (e.g., model from elbow extension and flexion task was tested on EEG data collected from elbow extension and flexion task), models from simple joint tasks had higher accuracies than the others in inter-task testing (e.g., model from elbow extension and flexion task tested on EEG data collected from drawer opening task). Simple single joint motor imagery tasks could, therefore, be considered for training models to potentially reduce the number of repetitive data acquisitions and model training in rehabilitation applications.
Author (aut): Zhang, Xin, Author (aut): Yong, Xinyi, Author (aut): Menon, Carlo
Date created: 2017-11-29
Author (aut): Paul, Michael T.Y., Author (aut): Yee, Brenden B., Author (aut): Zhang, Xin, Author (aut): Alford, Eiji H., Author (aut): Pilapil, Brandy K., Author (aut): Gates, Byron D.
Date created: 2019-01-01
Can art challenge us to shift our economy to one that embraces sustainability, equality, and justice? Can we create local and global economies that are not only resilient and thriving but inclusive of everyone?The Artist Round Table (A.RT) on New Economies brought together a diverse group of panellists who have provocative ideas about art, economy, and transformative change. Set within a staged 1983 corporate boardroom, the A.RT kickoff with a presentation by artist Marilou Lemmens about her collaborative, multidisciplinary practice with Richard Ibghy. Lemmens presented artistic projects that explore the ways in which the economic system pervades nearly every facet of our daily lives. In response, panellists from various fields engaged in a lively discussion, digging deeply into the issues at the heart of the duo’s practice. The panelists draw on their experiences in the realms of art and culture, activism and citizenship, and sustainability and radical urbanism as they tell stories, debate ideas, and challenge each other and the audience with thought-provoking questions. The audience was invited into a discourse on the emergence of a new economy and how art can be a driving force for social change.FEATURING:Marilou Lemmens is a visual artist based in Durham-Sud and Montreal, Quebec where she works in collaboration with Richard Ibghy. Spanning various media, including video, performance, and installation, their work explores the material, affective, and sensory dimensions of experience that cannot be fully translated into signs or systems. For several years, they have examined the rationale upon which economic actions are described and represented, and how the logic of economy has come to infiltrate the most intimate aspects of life. Their work has been shown nationally and internationally, including at La Biennale de Montréal (Montreal, 2014), 27th Images Festival (Toronto, 2014), La Filature, Scène Nationale (Mulhouse, France, 2013-14), Centre for Contemporary Arts (Glasgow, 2012), and the 10th Sharjah Biennial (Sharjah, UAE, 2011), among others.WITH PANELISTS:Community organizer, writer, and activist Matt Hern teaches at UBC and is known for his work in radical urbanism, community development, and alternative forms of education. He is founder of the Purple Thistle Centre, Car-Free Vancouver Day, and Groundswell: Grassroots Economic Alternatives.Cédric Jamet is a Project Manager at the Montreal Urban Ecology Centre and a Curator at Cities for People. His work explores the relationship between the urban imaginary, active citizenship, and the co-creation of sustainable cities.Artist and cultural producer Todd Lester has dedicated his career to supporting and enabling socially engaged artists around the world. He is a senior fellow at the World Policy Institute and founder of both freeDimensional and Lanchonete.org.
Author (aut): SFU's Vancity Office of Community Engagement, Author (aut): Lemmens, Marilou, Author (aut): Hern, Matt, Author (aut): Jamet, Cedric, Author (aut): Lester, Todd
Date created: 2015-05-29
Author (aut): SFU's Vancity Office of Community Engagement, Author (aut): Hern, Matt
Date created: 2014-11-06
Video recording talk and panel discussion of The Human Right to Housing and the Vancouver Situation.
Author (aut): Kothari, Miloon, Author (aut): Young, Margot, Author (aut): Swanson, Jean, Author (aut): Hern, Matt, Author (aut): Seigl, sχ?emt?na:t, St’agid Jaad, Audrey, Author (aut): Johal, Am
Date created: 2017-06-05
Panelists:Mary Clare Zak, Managing Director, Social Policy & Project Division, City of VancouverMatt Hern, instructor in SFU Urban Studies and author of Common Ground in a Liquid City: Essays in Defense of an Urban Future, Co-founder/Director of 2+10 IndustriesPaul Taylor, Executive Director of Gordon Neighborhood House in the West End, and formerly Executive Director of the DTES Neighborhood HouseViveca Ellis, Single Mothers AllianceMargot Young, law professor at UBC Bill Beauregarde, Community Coordinator, Aboriginal Front Door Society Moderated by Charlie Smith, editor of the Georgia Straight.
Author (aut): SFU's Vancity Office of Community Engagement, Author (aut): Zak, Mary Clare, Author (aut): Hern, Matt, Author (aut): Taylor, Paul, Author (aut): Ellis, Viveca, Author (aut): Young, Margot, Author (aut): Beauregarde, Bill
Date created: 2015-11-02
Author (aut): SFU's Vancity Office of Community Engagement, Author (aut): Hern, Matt, Author (aut): Johal, Am, Author (aut): Coulthard, Glen , Author (aut): Bates, Lisa , Author (aut): Al-Zobaidi, Sobhi , Author (aut): Anthony, Josiane
Date created: 2016-10-27
Fulltext of the document is not available until March 2025 due to the journal embargo policies of the American Chemical Society. If you need fulltext access please email summit@sfu.ca.
Author (aut): Rea, Alex, Author (aut): Zhang, Xin, Author (aut): Mobrhan-Shafiee, Nazanin, Author (aut): Wang, Michael C.P., Author (aut): Proulx, Howard, Author (aut): Gates, Byron
Date created: 2024-03-26