{"id":337,"date":"2020-02-18T09:18:36","date_gmt":"2020-02-18T15:18:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.radyfhs.umanitoba.ca\/cors\/?p=337"},"modified":"2020-02-18T13:35:16","modified_gmt":"2020-02-18T19:35:16","slug":"visiting-researchers-explore-emerging-technologys-role-in-health-care","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.radyfhs.umanitoba.ca\/cors\/visiting-researchers-explore-emerging-technologys-role-in-health-care\/","title":{"rendered":"Visiting researchers explore emerging technology\u2019s role in health care"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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From left to right \nPatrick Henaff, Amine Choukou, Eric Monacelli, Jean-Eric Ghia (Honorary Consul of France in Winnipeg) <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

In December 2019, the College of Rehabilitation Sciences welcomed two engineering professors from France to discuss advancements in smart home solutions, artificial intelligence (AI), robotics, haptics and virtual reality (VR) for health care. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWinnipeg is a winter city, so a good place for ideation\nabout winter-related technologies to support health care and services in the\nNordics,\u201d said Dr. Amine Choukou, assistant professor in the department of occupational\ntherapy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Virtual Fauteuil (VF), developed by Eric Monacelli, uses a robotic platform and virtual reality to simulate driving a wheelchair in realistic environments. Photo: Vincent Baillais\/Toma <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Eric Monacelli, professor at the University of Versailles Saint Quentin en Yvelines (LISV lab \u2013 UVSQ \u2013 Paris Saclay University) in France, and Patrick Henaff, professor in the Mines Nancy school of engineering at the University of Lorraine spent few days discussing opportunities for international and multidisciplinary collaborations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Monacelli specializes in interactive and assistive robotics\nand how this technology can be used for wheelchair mobility training. A system\nhe developed, called Virtual Fauteuil (VF), uses a robotic platform and virtual\nreality to simulate driving a wheelchair in realistic environments. The system,\nwhich can accommodate manual or motorized wheelchairs, is already being tested\nin Quebec and France. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Choukou sees an opportunity to bring this project to\nManitoba, where an adaptation of a winter-specific version of the program and\nevaluation is under consideration. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWhen you use a wheelchair for the first time in your life,\nyou need to be trained, but the current training in institutions is very basic\nand unspecific,\u201d Choukou said. Once fully developed, he said, the VF system can\nshow users how to navigate through ice and snow in different modalities before\nthey experience the real thing. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The VF platform will be added to the Winter Wheeled Mobility\nresearch group led by Dr. Jacquie Ripat, associate professor in the department\nof occupational therapy. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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No\u00e9mie Laguelle, from the University of Lorraine in France, works with a 3D depth camera at Choukou\u2019s lab at Health Sciences Centre Winnipeg. <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Henaff\u2019s research interests lie in the bio-inspired control\nof humanoid robots. He is the head of the AI, complex systems and robotics\nresearch department at the Loria lab of the University of Lorraine. Last year, two\nof his engineering students attended the College of Rehabilitation Sciences<\/a>\nto work with Choukou on his project at Riverview Health Centre developing a\nsystem to alert the dementia unit staff to dangerous situations relying on a\nset of 3D depth cameras that monitor the residents\u2019 navigation without\nbreaching their privacy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cOne of the goals of this visit was to foster student exchanges,\u201d Choukou said. \u201cI hope to see more of professor Henaff\u2019s students in my lab this summer, and if some of our students want to be trained in France, we want also to encourage and support that exchange.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These topics will be further explored at the Augmented\nHuman International Conference<\/a>, May 27 \u2013 29 at the University of Manitoba\nFort Garry campus. Choukou is global co-chair of the conference, along with\nRedha Taiar from the University of Reims Champagne-Ardenne in France. The\nevent, in its 11th<\/sup> year, is being held in Canada for the first time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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