News
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March 6, 2019OBDAF Cluster Partners with Top VR Solutions Company WorldViz
The cluster is pleased to announce a new exciting partnership with the virtual reality (VR) solutions company WorldViz. Founded 2002 in Santa Barbara, CA, WorldViz is an industry-leading provider of VR solutions for the academic, public, and enterprise sectors. Its patented VR solutions are…
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March 1, 2019Safety Harness Design Project Awarded NSERC Engage Grant
We are pleased to announce the award of an NSERC Engage grant to Dr. Jean Sebastien and British Columbian based company Arc’teryx for their collaborative project aimed to improve harness design to enhance both safety and comfort. Harnesses are a necessary component in safety…
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February 20, 2019CBC News Highlight Cluster Member's Research
A recent article in CBC news highlighted the important work done by two of our cluster members; Stephen Robinovitch, SFU and Alison Novak, Toronto Rehabilitation Institute: Beyond the hospital, researchers at Simon Fraser University in Burnaby, B.C., have been studying the science of…
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January 21, 2019Dr. Carpenter and HeadCheck Health Awarded NSERC Engage Grant
We are delighted to announce that Dr. Mark Carpenter and Dr. Harrison Brown, CEO of HeadCheck Health, have been awarded an NSERC Engage Grant for their collaborative project entitled "Validation of Mobile Motion Tracking Technology for the Assessment of Human Standing Balance". …
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December 11, 2018OBDAF Cluster Awarded Grant for Catalyzing Research Clusters
We are delighted to announce that The Origins of Balance Deficits and Falls research cluster has been awarded a Grant for Catalyzing Research Clusters (GCRC) from UBC for a second year in a row. A cluster of research excellence is defined as a “network of researchers spanning multiple…
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November 23, 2018Teen Tuesday at Science World "Modeling and Visualizing Motion"
Cluster trainee Calvin Kuo (pictured above wearing motion sensors) hosted an exhibition at Science World on Tuesday , November 20th, for their "Teen Tuesday" events on the theme of "Human Modeling and Visualization". UBC researchers and clinicians are using new wearable technologies to…
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June 7, 2018Research Infrastructure Support Services Funding awarded for Cluster Server
Dr. Tim Inglis and Mark Carpenter were recently awarded $10,000 from the UBC Faculty of Education Research Infrastructure Support Services (RISS) program to acquire the computer platform needed to establish an internationally- recognized balance and falls research database to support research for…
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June 7, 2018PT-KIN Collaborative Seed Grant funding awarded to Dr.Inglis and Dr.Pollock
Congratulations to cluster members Tim Inglis and Courtney Pollock for being awarded a $5000 Kin-PT Collaborative Seed Grant for their project on: "Characterizing lower limb somatosensory reflexes during standing post-stroke”. Other Cluster members collaborating on the project are Mark…
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June 7, 2017PT-KIN Collaborative Seed Grant funding awarded to Dr.Blouin and Dr.Hunt
Congratulations to cluster members Jean-Sebastien Blouin and Michael Hunt for being awarded a $5000 Kin-PT Collaborative Seed Grant for their project on: "Optimizing wearable sensor utilization to assess human movement patterns”. Other Cluster members collaborating on the project are…