T1 - Outreach/Training for Individuals with Disabilities, Caregivers, and Clinicians on mRehab Interventions and Technologies

This project will create a series of outreach and training initiatives, which include semi-annual webinars on emerging mRehab trends and solutions as well as annual in- person, day-long instructional courses at conferences of the main interdisciplinary rehabilitation research and engineering societies (e.g., ACRM, RESNA, CSUN).

T2 - Student Capacity Building: Training the Next Generation of Rehabilitation Engineers and Researchers

Capacity building will be undertaken in 3 areas:

T2-A – Graduate research assistantships in data analytics and predictive modeling in the Biobotics Lab at UC Irvine to develop algorithms based on data collected for the D2 “Data Lake” project for testing with Flint Rehab devices and Pt Pal digital therapeutics platform.

T2-B – Identify and present mRehab projects in grad and undergrad engineering design classes. Each year we will introduce at least one mRehab project and scope it appropriately for undergrad/graduate engineering design classes at Duke and UCI.

T2-C – Mentored engineering student research & lab training – Each year, 10 students at Duke University will be trained in utilization–focused R&D via clinical and laboratory ICT mRehab research projects. They will also engage in knowledge translation efforts, including opportunities for presentations, publications, and technology transfer.

T3 - State of the Science Conference: Future of mRehab Interventions and Technologies

A conference program committee with members of the RERC Advisory Board, staff, and co-sponsoring scientific and consumer advocacy organizations will determine the theme, structure, and content. The program will include invited presentations, panel presentations, breakout sessions and a plenary discussion session to generate recommendations for a consensus statement about the current state of the science.