2024 Spring
2023 Conference Award Winners Recap!
TNG Best Overall Technology Poster Award
Performance Assessment of 3-Finger Adaptive Robotic Grippers
in Handling Objects for Daily Living Assistance
Awardee
Md Mahbubur Rahman (first author)
Ph.D. Student
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Wisconsin
“I am working on Assistive Robots for wheelchairs for accomplishing daily tasks.”
LaunchPad Winner – Best Overall
Give Voice to the Speechless for A Vision Neuroscience-Based Communication & Detection Solution
Awardee
Maheen M. Adamson, PhD, MHL
Director of Research, WRIISC-WOMEN
Clinical Associate Professor, Stanford Neurosurgery
CEO & Founder, WRIISC-WOMEN,
VA Palo Alto, Stanford School of Medicine
Soof Solutions Inc.
“I am so humbled to receive this award and I cannot wait to attend this year’s ACRM meeting. Soof Solutions, Inc. is a communication-detection solution based in vision neuroscience to help older adults with various neurological problems to communicate. We utilize existing eye tracking technology available in the AR kit of Apple iPad® to optimize the capture and delivery of the stimuli from patient device to caregiver device using the eye tracking metrics for a detection algorithm. Our current prototype solution uses digital personalized stimuli for basic needs and assessments for psychiatric conditions. Our patented solution targets the speech pathologist as the initial customer who works with the patient and caregiver from hospital to home settings.”
LaunchPad Winner – Most Innovative
Regained Inc. for A New Paradigm in Hand Function Rehabilitation
Awardees
Vineet B K Johnson, PhD(c)
Founder, President & CEO
IRegained Inc
Samir Sahoo, B. E. MBA
COO & VP Engineering
IRegained Inc
Eric Dumais
Dy. Director -Clinical Operations
IRegained Inc.
We all were quite delighted to receive the Most Impactful device award, and a big kudos to the other winners and the other participants. IRegained®’s goal is to help individuals with hand function disability reclaim their independence and thereby their lives. The MyHand® System is a focused and comprehensive tool for clinicians to help with hand function rehabilitation at a granular level. This allows clinicians to focus on function centric rehabilitation for those affected by neurological, neuromuscular and/or musculoskeletal disorders and/or injuries.
The MyHand® System was designed to redefine hand function rehabilitation. The device offers provisions to train muscle by muscle, finger by finger or function by function.
For more details, please visit IRegained®.
