Update: Due to the overwhelming number of responses we have received, we are no longer looking for participants! Thank you very much to all of those who volunteered for our study!Dr. Walter Bischof, Fraser Anderson, and I have just started running a user study and are looking for people in the Edmonton area to participate! In our study, you will get to wear a super nifty motion capture jacket, have your muscular activity recorded by EMG electrodes, and use one of the AIRTouch multi-touch tabletops that Fraser and I have built. We are using all of these technologies to compare different rehabilitation activities: those performed on a multi-touch tabletop and those performed on a traditional table. The information collected during our study will be used to evaluate the potential of multi-touch tabletops in rehabilitation programs.

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We are looking for people who are 18 years of age or older who weigh less than 220 lbs (due to the sizes of motion capture jackets that we have). The study will take place in the AMMI Lab (Department of Computing Science, University of Alberta) and will take approximately one hour. Participants will receive $15 CAD for participating in the study and an additional $5 CAD if all tasks in the study are completed. The study is running from July 18th, 2011 to August 5th, 2011.

For more information and/or to schedule a convenient time to participate, please contact our research assistant, Gauri Chaggar, at chaggar1@ualberta.ca.