Hello!

Participants are needed for a rehabilitation study involving reaching in a virtual environment. The experiment will be held in MERL 129 and will take 45 minutes. You'll receive a $10 Amazon gift card for participating.
(Full details attached below.)

If you are right-handed and would like to volunteer for the study, please email: charm.rehab@stanford .edu.

We're especially looking for participants this Thursday and Friday. Thanks!

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We are currently conducting a human/machine interactive experiment in the Collaborative Haptics and Robotics in Medicine (CHARM) Laboratory, directed by Prof. Allison Okamura. As part of this work, over the next few weeks, I will be conducting an experiment with a human-machine interface device. This experiment will be performed in a single session spanning no more than 45 minutes, including breaks. All experiments will take place in Room 129 in the Mechanical Engineering Research Laboratory Building. Only those 18 or over, right-handed with no neurological disorders and with no injuries to the hand or arm are eligible to participate. Subjects will receive a $10 gift card for participating in the study.

The purpose of the research study is to investigate the role of haptic feedback during task performance, particularly those involving hand and arm motions. Haptic feedback modalities include tactile, force, proprioceptive, and temperature information presented to the user via a haptic device. The study may include other modalities, primarily visual and auditory. We will study the effects of various feedback methods and combinations thereof on task speed, task performance (measured efficiency and effectiveness), subjective measures such as comfort and ease of use, and learning curves. Further, we may investigate how cognitive loading influences user performance with these feedback modalities. These results will assist researchers in the design of haptic systems (e.g. haptic devices, control laws, teleoperation systems, and virtual environment designs) for a number of useful applications (e.g., surgical robotics, rehabilitation, prosthetic devices, and training simulators). If you are interested in being an experiment subject please contact me via email at charm.rehab@gmail.com or at 732-895-5648. Your participation in this experiment is entirely voluntary.

If you have any questions or concerns, feel free to contact me or Prof. Allison Okamura at aokamura@stanford.edu. If you have any concerns, complaints, or general questions about the research or your rights as a participant, please contact the Stanford Institutional Review Board (IRB) to speak to someone independent of the research team at 650-723-2480 or toll free at 1-866-680-2906. You can also write to the Stanford IRB, Stanford University, MC 5579, Palo Alto, CA 94304.

Your assistance in helping us meet our research goals would be greatly appreciated.

Thank You,
Michele Rotella

Department of Mechanical Engineering
Stanford University

IRB Protocol Number: 22514