Approved Human Subjects Studies of the RERC-AMI

• Accessible Medical Instrumentation Healthcare Consumer Needs Assessment: Delphi Study. Interative process for refining national consumer survey, based on input from over 20 consumers. PI: Jill Winters. Approved at both Western University and Marquette University in April 2003, in support of R1.1 (Consumer Needs Assessment).
• Accessible Medical Instrumentation Healthcare Consumer Needs Assessment: National Survey. National consumer survey, completed by over 400 respondents. PI: Jill Winters. Approved at both Western University and Marquette University in September 2003, in support of R1.1 (Consumer Needs Assessment).
• Accessible Medical Instrumentation Healthcare Provider Assessment: Delphi Study. Interative process for refining national provider survey, based on input from providers. PI: Jill Winters. Approved at both Western University and Marquette University in February 2004, in support of R1.2 (Provider Needs Assessment).
• Evaluation of the RERC-AMI Mobile Usability Lab for Accessibility and Usability Testing of Medical Device Positioning Challenges – Helps improve the functionality and robustness of the MU-Lab and PM, and to gain knowledge useful for the development of the positioning components of Med-AUDIT. PI: Melissa Lemke. Approved July 2004 at Marquette University in support of D1 (Tools: MU-Lab).
• Effectiveness of Multimedia Telecommunication among Persons with Disabilities during Conferencing Activities – Understand how people with various disabilities use different videoconferencing equipment during several types of goal-directed communication tasks. PI: Jason Foil. Approved June 2004 at Marquette University in support of D3 (Emerging Technologies).
• Ergonomic Evaluation of Hand Tools - IRB approval for a range of projects involving use of hand interface technologies. PI: David Rempel. Approved previously at UC Sanfrancisco and UC Berkeley, and by Marquette University for RERC-AMI studies in July 2004, in support of R2 (Usability Analysis) and D1 (Tools: MU-Lab) studies.
• Accessibility of Exercise Ergometers & Monitors When Used by Older Adults With Disabilities – Studies the usability and accessibility of home exercise bikes and vital sign monitoring equipment used by older adults with disabilities and a history of a cardiac event. PI: Sean Campbell. Approved August 2004 at Marquette University in support of D1 (Tools: MU-Lab) and D3 (Emerging Technologies)
• Evaluation of an Enhanced TheraJoy Technology and the UniTherapy Program for use in Stroke Neurorehab – Compare motion in the horizontal to vertical planes; evaluate user performance and UniTherapy use during assessment and therapy tasks PI: Laura Johnson. Approved June 2004 at Marquette University in support of D3 (Emerging Technologies)