On Tuesday I presented our group’s work on stroke rehabilitation games at VS Games ‘09 (First International IEEE Conference in Serious Games and Virtual Worlds).  I was pretty nervous considering it was my first public conference presentation but it went alright in the end.  More surprisingly, however, is that we won best paper at the conference!  Hurrah!

I’ve included the presentation below for anyone that may be interested in viewing it.  It can also be downloaded from the SlideShare page.  Hopefully in the next few days I will also be able to add the audio of the presentation to this.

Next week I’ll be presenting at the IEEE VS Games 2009 (March 23-24) conference in Coventry University.  I’ll be discussing our paper, “Serious Games for Upper Limb Rehabilitation Following Stroke” (Burke et al.).  This will entail a bit of background on stroke, a look at the existing ways technology has been applied to stroke rehabilitation, a discussion of game design in rehabilitation and finally a look at the games our group has developed for upper-limb post-stroke rehabilitation.  Apparently it will also be broadcast into Second Life (see VS Games site for details), as if I wasn’t nervous enough already.