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Bambi Roberts Brewer
PhD Student

No longer a member of RI.

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Research interests

I am interested in the use of robotic technology for rehabilitation and for assistive devices. I am currently attempting to use visual distortion combined with a force-feedback robot to improve rehabilitation for chronic stroke and traumatic brain injury (TBI) patients. More generally, I am interested in the mechanisms by which people recover after severe injuries and how technology can be used to make this recovery quicker and more complete. I am also interested in how technology can be used to allow more functional independence for permanently impaired patients.

Past Labs & Groups

Neurobotics Laboratory - Investigating neural control of movement, brain-machine interface, and devices for rehabilitation, motor enhancement, and entertainment.

Past Projects

Feedback Distortion for Rehabilitation - We are developing a virtual environment with a robotic device to extend the strength and mobility of people recovering from strokes.	Quality of Life Technology Center - QoLT is a unique partnership between Carnegie Mellon and the University of Pittsburgh that brings together a cross-disciplinary team of technologists, clinicians, industry partners, end users, and other stakeholders to create revolutionary technologies that will improve and sustain the quality of life for all people.
Sensory Transfer Systems for the Sensory Impaired - We are developing a sensory transfer system to assist and enhance the manipulation abilities of the sensory impaired.

Publications

Note: This list may not be comprehensive. It contains only those publications in the RI publications database. Entries are listed in reverse chronological order.

• Enhanced Visual Error in a Coordinated Pinching Task
  B.R. Brewer, R. Klatzky, and Y. Matsuoka
  Proceedings of the IEEE Intl. Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA '06), May, 2006.

• Visual Feedback Manipulation for Hand Rehabilitation in a Robotic Environment
  B.R. Brewer
  doctoral dissertation, tech. report CMU-RI-TR-06-24, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, May, 2006. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [6630 KB] copyrighted

• Perceptual Limits for a Robotic Rehabilitation Environment Using Visual Feedback Distortion
  B.R. Brewer, M. Fagan, R. Klatzky, and Y. Matsuoka
  IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering, Vol. 13, 2005, pp. 1 - 11. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [659 KB] copyrighted

• Shaping Synergistic Pinching Patterns with Feedback Distortion in a Virtual Rehabilitation Environment
  Y. Matsuoka, B.R. Brewer, and R. Klatzky
  In The 26th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, September, 2004, pp. 4866 - 4869. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [449 KB] copyrighted

• Effects of Visual Feedback Distortion for the Elderly and the Motor-Impaired in a robotic Rehabilitation Environment
  B.R. Brewer, R. Klatzky, and Y. Matsuoka
  Proceedings of the 2004 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA '04), May, 2004. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [445 KB] copyrighted

• Feedback Distortion to Increase Strength and Mobility
  B.R. Brewer, R. Klatzky, and Y. Matsuoka
  Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Rehabilitation Robotics (ICORR 2003), April, 2003, pp. 258 - 261.
  Download: pdf [250 KB] copyrighted

• Feedback Distortion to Overcome Learned Nonuse: A System Overview
  B.R. Brewer, R. Klatzky, and Y. Matsuoka
  IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology, 2003, pp. 1613 - 1616.
  Download: pdf [546 KB] copyrighted