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ICORR 2005
IEEE 9^th International Conference on Rehabilitation Robotics
Frontiers of the Human-Machine Interface
June 28 - July 1, 2005
Chicago, Illinois

ICORR 2005 Committee

Executive Committee
General Chair	James Patton	RIC / NU Chicago, IL, USA
Co-Chair	Richard F. ff. Weir	NU Chicago, IL, USA
Secretariat	Mary-Ellen Devitt	RIC Chicago, IL, USA
Finance Chair	Derek Kamper	RIC / NU Chicago, IL, USA
Scientific Chairs	Yoky Matsuoka (Publication/Sponsorship)	Carnegie Mellon Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Scientific Chairs	Yasin Dhaher (Scientific Review)	RIC / NU Chicago, IL, USA
Awards Chair	Dan Ferris	University of MI Ann Arbor, MI, USA
Web Development Chair	Margaret Holzer	RIC / NU Chicago, IL, USA
Exhibit Chair	Lennie Kahn	RIC / NU Chicago, IL, USA
Academic Demonstration Chair	Michelle Johnson	Marquette University Milwaukee, WI, USA
International Liaison	Mohsen Makhsous	RIC / NU Chicago, IL, USA

Scientific Program Committee
Assistive Robotics	Machiel Van der Loos	Stanford University / V.A. Palo Alto, CA, USA
	Dimitar Stefanov	Rookwood Hospital Cardiff, Wales, UK
Therapeutic Robotics	David J. Reinkensmeyer	University of CA-Irvine Irvine, CA, USA
	Hermano Igo Krebs	Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, MA, USA
Brain-Machine Interfaces for Rehabilitation	Jiping He	Arizona State University Tempe, AZ, USA
	Nicholas Hatsopoulos	University of Chicago Chicago, IL, USA
Robotics in Prosthetics/Orthotics	Just Herder	Delft University of Technology The Netherlands
	Gill Pratt	Olin College, Needham, MA, USA
Hardware/Control Developments for Rehabilitation	Kazuhiro Kosuge	Tohoku University Sendai, Japan
	Gerry Colombo	University Hospital Balgrist Zurich, Switzerland
Sensory/Motor Control and Learning	V. Reggie Edgerton	UCLA Los Angeles, CA, USA
	John F. Soechting	University of Minnesota Minneapolis, MN, USA
Biorobotics/Biomimetics	Stefan Schaal	USC Los Angeles, CA, USA
Evaluation Methods/Clinical Experience	Maureen K. Holden	MIT Cambridge, MA, USA
	Carolee J. Winstein	USC Los Angeles, CA, USA

Advisory Committee
Chair	W. Zev Rymer	RIC / NU Chicago, IL, USA
	David A. Brown	NU / ChicagoPT Chicago, IL, USA
	Charles G. Burgar	Central TX Veterans Health Care System Temple, TX, USA
	Dudley Childress	RIC / NU Evanston, IL, USA
	J. Edward Colgate	NU Evanston, IL, USA
	Volker Dietz	Balgrist University Hospital Zurich, Switzerland
	Anita Halper	RIC Chicago, IL, USA
	William Harwin	University of Reading Reading, England
	Neville Hogan	MIT Cambridge, MA, USA
	Kevin Lynch	NU Evanston, IL, USA
	Linda Lovell	RIC / NU Chicago, IL, USA
	Sandro Mussa-Ivaldi	RIC / NU Evanston, IL, USA
	Michael Peshkin	NU Evanston, IL, USA
	Tariq Rahman	A.I. duPont Hospital for Children Wilmington, DE, USA
	Elliot Roth	RIC / NU Chicago, IL, USA
	Edward Taub	University of Alabama Birmingham, AL, USA
	Machiel Van der Loos	Stanford University / V.A. Palo Alto, CA, USA

International Steering Committee
Chair	Tariq Rahman	University of Delaware Wilmington, DE, USA
	Z. Zenn Bien	KAIST Daejeon, Korea
	Axel Graeser	University of Bremen Bremen, Germany
	William Harwin	University of Reading Reading, England
	Michael Hillman	Bath Institute of Medical Engineering Bath, England, UK
	Machiel Van der Loos	Stanford University / V.A. Palo Alto, CA, USA
	Richard Mahoney	ReAbility USA Mount Laurel, NJ, USA
	Mounir Mokhtari	INT Evry, France
	James Patton	RIC / NU Chicago, IL, USA
	Dimitar Stefanov	Rookwood Hospital Cardiff, Wales, UK
	Noriyuki Tejima	Ritsumeikan University Kita-ku, Kyoto, Japan

Awards Committee
Chair	Dan Ferris	University of Michigan Ann Arbor, MI, USA
	Brent Gillespie	University of Michigan Ann Arbor, MI, USA
	Carolynn Patten	Rehabilitation R&D Center VA Palo Alto HCS Stanford University Palo Alto, CA, USA
	Richard F. ff. Weir	NU / Jesse Brown VA Medical Center Chicago, IL, USA
	Yasin Dhaher	RIC / NU Chicago, IL, USA

Logistics Committee
Chair	Mary-Ellen Devitt	RIC Chicago, IL, USA
Local Arrangements Chair	Nora Wenthold	RIC Chicago, IL, USA
Web Development Chair	Margaret Holzer	RIC / NU Chicago, IL, USA
Gala Dinner Chair	Marianne Kaplan	RIC / NU Chicago, IL, USA
Finance Co-Chair	Anita McClure	RIC Chicago, IL, USA
Posters & Exhibits Co-Chair	Anthony DiMaio	RIC Chicago, IL, USA
Signage and Banner Chair	James Sulzer	RIC / NU Chicago, IL, USA
Local Arrangements Co-Chair	Sheila Walker Wilkins	RIC Chicago, IL, USA
Continuing Education Co-Chair	Lance Adams	RIC Chicago, IL, USA
AV Chair	Jamie Hitchens	RIC Chicago, IL, USA
AV Co-Chair	Eric Faulring	RIC / NU Chicago, IL, USA
Marketing & Public Relations Chair	Samantha Caplan	RIC Chicago, IL, USA
Lab Tours Chair	Chris Scharver	RIC Chicago, IL, USA
Podium Presentations Co-Chair	Rosemary (Bonnie) Collard	RIC Chicago, IL, USA
Marketing & Public Relations Co-Chair	Katie Bernard	RIC Chicago, IL, USA

Keynote Speakers
	Andrew Schwartz	University of Pittsburgh Pittsburgh, PA, USA
	Paolo Dario	Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna Pisa, Italy
	John Hollerbach	University of Utah Salt Lake City, UT, USA

Volunteer Committee
	Matt Krutky
	Elisa Pelosin
	Venn Ravichandran
	Bing-Shiang Yang
	Mike Hirsh
	Carren Lorredo
	Assaf Pressman

Scientific Review Committee

Camilo A. Acosta-Marquez, University of Abertay Dundee, Dundee, UK

Patricia Andres, MA General Hospital, Reading MA, USA

Randie Black-Schaffer, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA

Paolo Bonato, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA

Lara Boyd, University of KS Medical Center, Kansas City, MO, USA

Georg Bretthauer, Institute for Applied Computer Science, Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe Eggenstein, - Germany

Stephen Buerger, MA Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA

Joel Burdick, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA

Andrew Butler, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta GA, USA

Lance Cai, CA Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA

Craig Carignan, Georgetown University ISIS Center, Washington, DC, USA

James Carroll, Clarkson University, Potsdam, NY, USA

Jorge Cham, CA Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA

Pyung-hun Chang, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Taejon, - Korea, South

Gun Rae Cho, KAIST Daejeon - Korea, South

Goran Christiansson, Delft University of Technology, Delft - Netherlands

Myung Jin Chung, EECS, KAIST Daejeon - Korea, South

Gery Colombo, CEO Hocoma AG Volketswil, - Switzerland

Roberto Columbo, Bioengineering, Fondazione Salvatore Maugeri, VERUNO, (NO), Italy

Erik Cruz, SMPP, RIC, Chicago IL, USA

Julius Dewald, Northwestern University, Chicago IL, USA

Yasin Dhaher, Northwestern University, RIC, Chicago, IL, USA

Laura Dipietro, MIT, Cambridge MA, USA

Bart Driessen, TNO Science and Industry, TNO Science and Industry, Delft - Netherlands

William Durfee, University of MN, Minneapolis, MN, USA

Poul Dyhre-Poulsen, Neurology UCLA, Los Angeles CA, Uzbekistan

V. Reggie Edgerton, UCLA, LA, CA, USA

Jeremy Emken, University of CA-Irvine, Irvine, CA, USA

Susan Fasoli, MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA

David Feil-Seifer, USC- LA, LA, CA, USA

Andy Fong, CA Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA

Larry Forrester, University of MD, School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA

Junji Furusho, Osaka University, Suita - Japan

Jose Galvez, UC-Irvine, Irvine, CA, USA

Steve Gard, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, USA

Mahmoud Horbel