Funding : This project is funded by Healthy Brains Healthy Lives (CONNECT program) and FRQ-Inter.
Principal Investigator: Prof. Stefanie Blain-Moraes
Collaborators: Dr. Naila Kuhlmann, Dr. Alexandre Reynaud, Amelia Robinson, Sapphire Hou, and Niloofar Gharesi.
Project Description:
This session is part of a pilot study on designing technologies to convey the lived and felt experience of Parkinson's disease. The objective is to test prototypes that simulate aspects of Parkinson's disease to evaluate their potential for knowledge transfer and clinical empathy. The session would consist of testing the SymPulse armband, which records and simulates the specific muscular tremor of a Parkinson's disease patient, with PT/OT students and people living with Parkinson's disease. We will conduct a focus group to capture initial reactions to the simulation, and to consider its potential applications in a clinical setting.
