Rehabilitation Engineering Links on the Internet

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Assistive Devices Information from Japan

• Information Resources for People with Disabilities in Japan
• Home Care & Rehabilitation Exhibition in Japan
• Barrior Free Exibition in Japan
• Disabilities Information Resorces in Japan by JSRPD

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Public Agencies or Organizations about Rehabilitation Engineering in Japan

• the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare
• NATIONAL REHABILITATION CENTER FOR THE DISABLED
• Japanese Society for Rehabilitations of Persons with Disabilities
• Tsukuba College of Technology
• The National Institute of Special Education
• Medical and Welfare Equipment Dept. at NEDO
• Japanese Industrial Standards Center
• ATC Ageless Center
• the Kyoyo-Hin Foundation

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Rehabilitation Engineering Lab. in Japan

• National Rehab. Center for the Disabled
• Rosai Rehabilitation Engineering Center
• Human Stress Signal Research Center at AIST
• Inst. for Human Science and Biomedical Engineering at AIST
• Intelligent Systems Institute at AIST
• Biomedical Precision Eng. Lab at the Univ. of Tokyo
• LAB. OF SENSORY INFO. ENG., RES. INST. FOR ELECTRONIC SCIENCE, HOKKAIDO UNIV.
• Ogawa Lab. at Tokyo Denki Univ. College of Science & Engineering
• Rehabilitation Eng. Lab. at Saitama Rehabilitation Center
• Communications Res. Lab./Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications
• Biomedical Engineering Lab. at Ochanomizu Univ.

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Rehabilitation Robots

Links and Informations
• Rehabilitation Robotics Jumpstation
• Univ. of Delaware & Alfred I. duPont Inst.
• Robotian :: A Cyber Robot Museum

  Products

• HANDY 1 (Rehab Robotics Ltd.)
• MANUS (Exact Dynamics社)
• The Raptor(Applied Resources Corp. )
• Afmaster(Afma-Robots)
• Therapeutic Exercise Machine (TEM) (YASKAWA ELECTRIC Co.)
• MY SPOON (SECOM Co. Ltd.)

  Projects & Lab.

• Robot for Carrying Food Trays to the Aged and Disable (YASKAWA ELECTRIC Co.)
• Rehabilitation Robotics Research Programs (ASEL University of Delaware)
• The Nursing Robot (MEAM at Univ. of Michigan)
• ALL TERRAIN WHEELCHAIRS (Univ. Pennsylvania)
• Fingerspelling Hand : RALPH (VA Palo Alto)
• Robot-Assisted Upper Limb Neuro-Rehabilitation (VA Palo Alto)
• VTF Project (VA Palo Alto)
• Medical Robotics (Univ. of London)
• The Tin Man Wheelchair Robots (KISS Inst. for Pracitcal Robotics)
• rehab robotics:european perspective
• SVR Group (Univ. Cambridge)
• Interactive robotics in workshop activities (Univ. of Cambridge)
• EPI-RAID (Univ. Cambridge)
• Anthroform Arm Project (Univ. of Washington Biorobotics Lab.)
• Autonomous robots in rehabilitation (Certec, Lund Univ.)
• Virtual Prototyping of Rehabilitation Aids (McGill Univ.)
• Rehabilitation Robotics (Univ. Bath)
• Univ. California, Irvine
• The AURORA project (Univ. Hertfordshire)
• Robotic assistance in neuro and motor rehabilitation (Univ. Reading)

  Societies, Conferences

• ICORR Homepage
• ICORR2001
• ICORR2003 Announcements
• AAATE SIG-1 Robotics

  Pepers for conferences

• ICORR '99 Schedule and Presentations
• Wheelchair Robot Workshop
• Content of 3rd TIDE congress proceedings
• Information from Research and Conferences (CSUN97-2000, TIDE98, RESNA96)
• 2nd VA National Meeting
• Robotics in rehabilitation (IEEE'95)
• Tele-Service-Robot: integrating the socio-technical framework of human service through the InterNet-World-Wide-Web (Proc. Int. Workshop on Biorobotics '95)
• The role of user modelling in rehabilitation robotics (ICORR'97)
• VIPRR: A VIRTUALLY IN PERSON REHABILITATION ROBOT (ICORR'97)
• The role of user modelling in rehabilitation robotics (ICORR'97)
• DUAL-CHARACTER BASED USER INTERFACE DESIGN FOR AN ASSISTIVE ROBOT (Roman98)
• DESIGN OF A WHEELCHAIR MOUNTED ROBOT (AAATE'99)
• Robot Enhanced Interaction and Learning for Children with Profound Physical Disabilities (AAATE'99)
• Contribution to the development of an open software architecture for the Robotic Manus ar (AAATE'99)

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Rehabilitation Engineering and Assistive Devices

• RESNA Home Page
• AAATE Home Page
• ARATA
• International Society for Gerontechnology
• Disability Resources
• disABILITY Information and Resources
• Functional Electrical Stimulation
• BIOMECHANICS WORLD WIDE
• ERGOWEB
• REHADAT
• REHADAT Canada
• ABLEDATA (NIDRR)
• Univ. of Toronto
• LAB Resources
• Apple - Education - Disability Resources
• NIDRR - National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research in US
• Americans with Disabilities Act Document Center
• Rehabilitation R&D Center, Dept. of VA Palo Alto
• Prosthetics Research Lab. and Rehabilitation Engineering Research Program (Chicago)
• Careers On-line (Univ. of Minnesota)
• California State Univ.
• The Swedish Handicap Institute
• Jockey Club Rehabilitation Engineering Centre(HongKong)
• TNO Centre for Ageing Research (Netherlands)
• Bobby Approved

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Others

• International Paralympic Committee

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Please mail to tejima@se.ritsumei.ac.jp.

Last modified: Wed June 5 2002