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Stories
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"Emotionally supportive virtual assistant could help people with Alzheimer's disease," Waterloo News, Jesse Hoey, August 14, 2017
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"ACT@Home: An emotionall intelligent cognitive assistant to help people with Alzheimer's disease," Computer Science News, Jesse Hoey, June 29, 2017
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"Accessing the eye as a window to the brain," Waterloo-Guelph Physics Grad Studies News, Melanie Campbell, July 26, 2016
- "Public lecture explains optical principles behind the latest eye-based medical diagnosis," Science News Melanie Campbell, March 3, 2016
- "Waterloo pharmacist examines drug therapies for Alzheimer's disease," Pharmacy News, Praveen Nekkar Rao, July 29, 2015
- "Early Alzheimer's diagnosis: Imaging the living eye," Research2Reality, Melanie Campbell, May 8, 2015
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“Dementia patients may one day get assistance from robot helpers,” CBC News, Jennifer Boger, March 15, 2015
- "Chemist Elizabeth Meiering takes on the ALS ice bucket challenge," Chemistry News, Elizabeth Meiering, August 20, 2014
- "GPS technology may help detect Alzheimer's disease earlier," Waterloo Stories, Pascal Poupart, James Tung, July 8, 2014
- "Waterloo discovers a key regulator in the pacemakers of our brain and heart," Science News, David Spafford, April 25, 2014
- "Breaking the fall: Smart walker will help prevent injuries," Waterloo Stories, Pascal Poupart, April 12, 2013
- "An early test for Alzheimer's disease," Waterloo Stories, Melanie Campbell, February 12, 2013
- "Early test for Alzheimer's disease may rely on the eyes," Waterloo Stories, Melanie Campbell, January 22, 2013
- "Making life easier for those living with Alzheimer's," Waterloo Stories, Jesse Hoey, January 2, 2013
Press/Media
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"Using VR to help seniors exercise," CTV News, Jennifer Boger, February 2, 2018
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"Emotional AI and Alzheimer's disease," Youtube, Jesse Hoey, September 8, 2017
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"Creature comforts: robotic animals in the car eof dementia patients," Youtube, Jesse Hoey, September 8, 2017
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"The complex issue of emotion," Youtube, Jesse Hoey, September 8, 2017
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"Smart living: the DIY smart home project," Youtube, Jesse Hoey, September 8, 2017
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"Current work to detect the early signs of Alzheimer's disease," Youtube, Jesse Hoey, September 8, 2017
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"Amyloid as a biomarker of Alzheimer's disease in the retina," Youtube Lecture, Melanie Campbell, November 17, 2016
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"Heather Keller - Kinesiology," Youtube, Heather Keller, November 11, 2016
- "CAM Video: Melanie Campbell, using the science of light for early detection of Alzheimer's," Youtube, Melanie Campbell, November 2, 2016
- "Socio-emotional alignment for cognitive assistive technologies, NIH distinguished speaker - Dr. Jesse Hoey," Youtube Lecture, Jesse Hoey, October 20, 2015
- "Scanning probe microscopy in biomedical research," YouTube Lecture, Zoya Leonenko, October 1, 2014
Publications by CBB Researchers
- Mahzar Eisapour, Shi Cao, and Jennifer Boger. 2018. Game Design for Users with Constraint: Exergame for Older Adults with Cognitive Impairment. In The 31st Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology Adjunct Proceedings (UIST '18 Adjunct). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 128-130
- Huang, H. Y., Farkhatdinov, I., Arami, A., & Burdet, E. (2017). Modelling neuromuscular function of SCI patients in balancing. In Converging Clinical and Engineering Research on Neurorehabilitation II (pp. 355-359). Springer, Cham.
- Arami, A., Tagliamonte, N. L., Tamburella, F., Huang, H. Y., Molinari, M., & Burdet, E. (2017, July). A simple tool to measure spasticity in spinal cord injury subjects. In Rehabilitation Robotics (ICORR), 2017 International Conference on (pp. 1590-1596). IEEE.
- Culik, R. M., Sekhar, A., Nagesh, J., Deol, H., Rumfeldt, J. A., Meiering, E. M., & Kay, L. E. (2018). Effects of maturation on the conformational free-energy landscape of SOD1. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 115(11), E2546-E2555.
- Keller, H. H. (2016). Improving food intake in persons living with dementia. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1367(1), 3-11.
- Morrissey, K., Lazar, A., Boger, J., & Toombs, A. (2017, May). HCIxDementia Workshop: The Role of Technology and Design in Dementia. In Proceedings of the 2017 CHI Conference Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems(pp. 484-491). ACM.
- Mihailidis, A., Qiu, J., Boger, J., & Chang, S. J. I. (2017). Pervasive Computing and Ambient Physiological Monitoring Devices. In Smart Technologies in Healthcare (pp. 26-78). CRC Press.
- Chen, M. L., Yao, L., Boger, J., Mercer, K., Thompson, B., & Jiang, N. (2017). Non-invasive brain stimulation interventions for management of chronic central neuropathic pain: a scoping review protocol. BMJ open, 7(10), e016002.
- Boger, J., Eisapour, M., Domenicucci, L., & Cao, S. (2017). Design of Virtual Reality Exergame to Promote Upper-Body Movement for Older Adults with Dementia. 한국재활복지공학회 학술대회 논문집, 91-94.
- König, A., Francis, L. E., Joshi, J., Robillard, J. M., & Hoey, J. (2017). Qualitative study of affective identities in dementia patients for the design of cognitive assistive technologies. Journal of Rehabilitation and Assistive Technologies Engineering, 4, 2055668316685038.
- Robillard, J. M., & Hoey, J. (2018). Emotion and Motivation in Cognitive Assistive Technologies for Dementia. Computer, 51(3), 24-34.
- Campbell, M. C., Emptage, L., Corapi, F., Redekop, R., Shah, N., Kitor, M., ... & Mackenzie, I. (2017). Amyloid beta deposits in ex vivo retinas correlate with the severity of Alzheimer’s brain pathology. Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science, 58(8), 1255-1255.
- Campbell, M. C., Corapi, F., Emptage, L., Redekop, R., Shah, N., Kitor, M., ... & Mackenzie, I. R. (2017). THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN AMYLOID IN THE RETINA AND A BRAIN-BASED POST-MORTEM DIAGNOSIS OF ALZHEIMER’S DISEASE. Alzheimer's & Dementia: The Journal of the Alzheimer's Association, 13(7), P284-P285.
- Sutley, J. K. L., & Rao, P. P. N. (2017). INVESTIGATING THE EFFECTS OF LEVOTHYROXINE AND LIOTHYRONINE ON BETA-AMYLOID AGGREGATION. Alzheimer's & Dementia: The Journal of the Alzheimer's Association, 13(7), P626.
- Hane, F. T., Lee, B. Y., & Leonenko, Z. (2017). Recent progress in Alzheimer’s disease research, part 1: Pathology. Journal of Alzheimer's Disease, 57(1), 1-28.
- Hane, F. T., Robinson, M., Lee, B. Y., Bai, O., Leonenko, Z., & Albert, M. S. (2017). Recent Progress in Alzheimer’s Disease Research, Part 3: Diagnosis and Treatment. Journal of Alzheimer's Disease, 57(3), 645-665.
- Drolle, E., Negoda, A., Hammond, K., Pavlov, E., & Leonenko, Z. (2017). Changes in lipid membranes may trigger amyloid toxicity in Alzheimer's disease. PloS one, 12(8), e0182194.