Students will work on one of two IKTeams according to the Integrated Knowledge Translation (IKT) Principles, which promote “meaningful engagement of the right research users at the right time throughout the research ... process”.  Each IKTeam is made up of students and faculty from multiple disciplines.  The IKTeam works together toward a common research goal only achievable through collaboration across disciplines.  IKTeams include a member of the disability community with lived experience.  Students will work on one or more of these IKTeams.

IKTeam on Physical and Social Human-Machine Interactions

This IKTeam’s long-term objective is to create technologies that improve individuals’ abilities to access, engage with, and manipulate their physical, social, and sensory environments.

IKTeam on Human-Machine Processing and Communication

This IKTeam’s long-term objective is to understand human processing and communication and develop artificial processing and communication allowing people with limited arm and hand function to engage in meaningful activities in realistic environments. This might include human-machine systems allowing independent feeding, cooking, and grooming. In a sense, we want to create, with people with paralyzed arms, a technology that has an impact akin to what a wheelchair does with people who cannot walk.

IKTeam on Implantable Devices and Regenerative Medicine

This IKTeam’s long-term objective is to develop therapeutic devices to regenerate bone, muscle, or spinal tissue lost to trauma or disease to restore normal tissue and organ function. The devices will be developed using conventional tissue engineering techniques or state of the art bioprinting and 3D printing.