Summer School "Towards a Continuum of Technology-assisted Therapy (TCTT)"

With the support of:

Organization and funding

• Rehabilitation Engineering Laboratory, ETH Zurich
  
• external page Clinica Hildebrand Centro di riabilitazione Brissago
  

Goal

The goal of the TCTT Summer School is to enhance the collaboration between clinicians, health scientists, and engineers. Promoting this cooperation is important, as it is fundamental in all stages of the development of new technological tools able to answer patients’ and clinicians’ needs in a meaningful way and to further explore the technology-assisted rehabilitation field.

Registration fee

CHF 350.- (includes hotel (doubleroom), lunch, welcome cocktail, and Gala dinner).

Topics and preliminary schedule

This year, the TCRT Summer School focuses on three topics (T1-T3) related to wearable and camera-based assessment and therapy and to establishing a technology-assisted continuum of care from the clinic to the home, to promote independence in persons with neurological injuries such as stroke. These topics are examined from the clinical, the engineering, and the industry perspective.

• T1. Wearable and camera-based assessment and therapy: In-clinic interventions
• T2. Wearable and camera-based assessment and therapy: At-home interventions
• T3. Integration of technology data into the clinical routine: how to provide feedback to clinicians and patients

We will discuss the related challenges and opportunities through plenary lectures and interactive case studies. During the case studies, participants are divided into groups and each group is assigned to a patient case. A patient from the clinic, together with a therapist, will present him/herself and participants will need to design a technology that can support the rehabilitation journey of the patient based on his/her specific needs.

Confirmed speakers

• Prof. Dr. Roger Gassert (Rehabilitation Engineering Lab, ETHZ): Welcome and introduction to the 4th Summer School TCTT
• Dr. med. Daria Dinacci (Clinica Hildebrand Centro di riabilitazione Brissago): The sensorimotor system and the “cognitive hand”
• Gabriele Margaroli (Clinica Hildebrand Centro di riabilitazione Brissago, Neuropsychologist): Cognitive rehabilitation with robotics and technology: the mutual interplay between motor skills and cognition
• Prof. Dr. Margit Alt Murphy (University of Gothenburg): Wearable and camera-based assessment in clinical settings
• Prof. Dr. Joachim Hermsdörfer (Technische Universität München): Kinematics in the Assessment of Everyday Life Performance in Neurorehabilitation
• Prof. Dr. Olivier Lambercy (Rehabilitation Engineering Lab, ETHZ): Wearables to monitor and encourage functional arm use at home
• Prof. Dr. Veronica Cimolin (Politecnico di Milano): Integration of technology data into the clinical routine: how to provide feedback to clinicians and patients
• Dr. med. Meret Branscheidt (Cereneo): There is no place like home - the future of HDHI
• Dr. Florian Haufe (Akina, CEO and Founder): AI for Home Therapy: Hope, Hype, and Hard Truths
• Prof. Dr. Catherine E. Lang (WashU Medicine): Wearable sensing opens new windows to understand and improve rehabilitation