What's new?

• ICORR'07 website is online
• Papers now online!
• Richard Weir summarized ICORR in a article in the 'Capabilities' newsletter
• ICORR 2005 Demographics Summary
• ICORR 2005 conference & "Roundtable discussion" featured by IEEE-RAS
• Media report for ICORR 2005
• Limited number of conference CD proceedings available for purchase
• Pictures from ICORR 2005
• See more photographs of the latest devices demonstrated at ICORR 2005

ICORR 2005 was hosted by the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago (RIC),  home to the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at Northwestern University.  RIC has been rated as the "Best Rehabilitation Hospital in America" since 1991 by U.S. News & World Report.  RIC and the Northwestern University-Chicago Campus are only blocks away from Conference Center. See map of the conference area. 

 

This conference was held at Northwestern Memorial Hospital's (NMH), Feinberg

Pavilion Conference Center located on the 3^rd floor of 251 E Huron, Chicago, IL 60611. Northwestern Memorial Hospital is a large urban academic medical center with a 766-bed facility and 6000 employees. The Feinberg Pavilion (the eastern wing) Conference Center within Northwestern Memorial accommodates up to 500 people. The venue is accessible, and had internet access and two computers available for email. Here is the floor plan.

 

ICORR 2005 took place just off Chicago's luxurious Magnificent Mile district on the shores of Lake Michigan. The timing of ICORR 2005 allowed participants to travel directly from RESNA, in Atlanta - June 23-27, 2005.  Also at Chicago's Navy Pier was NEXTFEST technology fair which precedes ICORR 2005. Then after ICORR, the 3^rd International Conference on Smart Homes and Health Telematics: ICOST 2005 was held not too far away from Chicago in Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada, from July 4-6, 2005.

ICORR 2005 highlighted the most recent advances in the basic sciences of rehabilitation robotics. This conference focused on a number of topics, including the themes of:   

• Assistive Robotics
• Therapeutic Robotics
• Brain-machine Interfaces for Rehabilitation
• Robotics in Prosthetics and Orthotics
• Hardware and Control Developments for Rehabilitation
• Evaluation Methods and Clinical Experience
• Biorobotics and Biomimetics
• Basic Science and Sensory/Motor Control Learning

 

ICORR 2005 received formal sponsorship from the most distinguished engineering organization, IEEE Robotics and Automation Society, and EMBS, our technical co-sponsor.  Additionally, ICORR 2005 obtained financial support from The Whitaker Foundation, the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago, the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging & Bioengineering, the National Institute of Neurological Disorders & Stroke, and the National Institute of Child Health & Human Development.

 

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