Kyle Reed

There are many benefits of home-based therapy for individuals who have had a stroke. This talk will discuss general stroke rehabilitation as well as one specific device developed in my lab that can help individuals with stroke learn to walk more effeciently.

I wish I knew that when I was younger.... This talk will help you learn about some things you can do to get the career you want. Dr. Reed will share his academic journey with hints and advice for steps along the way. This talk is applicable for anyone that wants to get a job after graduating but has a little more focus toward graduate school and professor careers. The benefits and detriments of academia and industry jobs will be compared. Unless you already have a job ready for you after graduating, this talk will probably benefit you.

This talk will focus on the joint action of human-human teams and human-robot teams interacting. In one study inspired by a physical therapist guiding a patient, two people jointly work on a physical task to move an object. The results show that the two individuals divided the forces into distinct motions and performed faster than they did alone, despite participants' opinions to the contrary. However, when specialization was programmed into a robot partner, subjects did not specialize, and their performance was worse. During a bimanual task, where both arms are controlled by the same person, some of the same interactions exist, but the higher coordination enables additional interactions that can be used for self-rehabilitation of stroke. The coordinated motions that are possible between the hands will be discussed. Throughout this talk, the forces involved in the interaction will be discussed to demonstrate the subtle interactions of haptic negotiation.