The 20 researchers chosen for the Three-Minute Talk competition will speak on topics including gamified telerehabilitation, wearable movement sensors, and DEI in rehabilitation sciences.
With a three-minute time limit, ICAIR's 3MT competition gives participants the unique challenge of concentrating months or even years of research into a presentation the length of a pop song.
“A great elevator pitch is one of the most important tools to have,” says Dr. Milos R. Popovic, KITE Research Institute Director and Chair of the ICAIR Organizing Committee. “Trainees hone those skills with 3MT and share them with an audience of their peers.”
Scientist Dr. Tilak Dutta, an adjunct professor at the University of Toronto and head of the Engineering Health team at KITE, will serve as the moderator of the event, which will take place on May 2.
THE FINALISTS OF 3MT 2025:
- “A novel patient-centred robotic rehabilitation of the upper extremity after stroke,” by Aisha Raji
- “Assessment of measures used to study gender in clinical and functional outcomes: A systematic review,” by Alicia Ruetas & Teodora Prnjat
- “The development of the AquaReBal water-based reactive balance training—protocol for the participatory design process,” by Anna Ogonowska-Slodownik
- “Exploring self-cueing in older adults with and without dementia to support the maintenance of daily activities,” by Christina Commisso
- “HERO glove insight,” by Daimen Landori-Hoffmann
- “Is augmented reality a viable option for at-home hand rehabilitation? Assessing perspectives from individuals with cervical spinal cord injury,” by Damian M. Manzone
- “Evaluating motor point activation and torque generation between single electrode stimulation and spatially distributed sequential stimulation in thigh muscles,” by Derrick Lim Ruey Chuan
- “Advancing Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) in rehabilitation sciences: a toolkit for sustainable change,” by Gabrielle Tsai
- “Inclusive park employment for people with disabilities,” by Hannah Dudney
- “Pedestrian safety: estimation of pedestrian-vehicle interactions,” by Jakson Paterson
- “Investigating the effect of capsaicin-induced central sensitization on contralateral motor unit excitation,” by Joana Dilipkumar
- “Age differences and the effect of vibration-based motion cues on visually induced motion sickness in virtual reality,” by Katharina Pöhlmann
- “Cognitive and neural costs of listening while driving in older adults with hearing loss,” by Katherine Bak
- “Using a spatial navigation task to identify preclinical cognitive decline,” by Lianna Montanari
- “Changes in self-reported health outcomes in long COVID,” by Mehvish Jamal
- “Wearable movement sensors for continuous activity monitoring in spinal cord injury clinical trials,” by Melina Giagiozis
- “Disease management knowledge by cardiac rehabilitation use globally and its correlates,” by Sheikh Sophia Shaubnaum
- “Gamification-based telerehabilitation for patients with Parkinson’s disease: a scoping review,” by Somayeh Norouzi-Ghazbi
- “Scalable design of dry, flexible textile embedded electrodes” by Stephanie DiNunzio
- “SPECT-guided BTX injection in Parkinsonian postural abnormalities” by Ronghua Hong