Patrice L. (Tamar) Weiss

Department of Occupational Therapy

Faculty of Social Welfare & Health Studies

University of Haifa

Research in the newly established Laboratory for Innovations in Rehabilitation Technology focuses on a number of complementary topics:  
 Virtual Reality (VR) as a training and treatment tool for the rehabilitation of individuals with physical or cognitive deficits.  
 development and evaluation of assistive technology access interfaces that enable individuals with severe physical disabilities to use their residual motor abilities in more efficient and less fatiguing ways.  
 Sonification, the use of speech and non-speech audio display to convey information normally displayed visually on a computer screen.  
 Telepresence, online learning and telework applications for people with disabilities, the Internet and online learning for teaching health care professionals at the university and for continuing education.  
 Ergonomics and the Identification of risk factors.  
 Physical rehabilitation and biomechanics  
 Computerized evaluation of handwriting and keyboarding.

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