Papers

• Striatal Dopamine Denervation and Sensory Integration for Balance in Middle-Aged and Older Adults
• Slip-related muscle activation patterns of the stance leg during walking
• Does supplementation with vitamin D or calcitropic hormone concentration in serum predict neuromuscular function and falling in older community-dwelling women?
• Gait parameters as predictors of slip severity in young and older adults
• Spectrally similar periodic and non-periodic optic flows evoke different postural sway responses
• Responses to a virtual reality grocery store in persons with and without vestibular dysfunction
• Restoring Skill in Walking: A Motor Re-learning Approach to Intervention for Older Adults with Mobility Disability
• Knee Strength and Slip Severity in Young and Older Adults
• Kinematics of the fingers and hands during computer keyboard use
• Developing an observational instrument to evaluate personal computer keyboarding style
• Ethnic differences in the frequency and circumstances of falling in older community-dwelling women
• Sensory re-weighting in human postural control during moving-scene perturbations
• Clinical measurement of sit-to-stand performance in people with balance disorders: Validity of data for the five-times-sit-to-stand test
• Gait adaptations during load carrying on level and inclined surfaces
• Measurement of slipperiness: fundamental concepts and definitions.
• Spectral characteristics of visually-induced postural sway in healthy elderly and healthy young subjects
• Visual influences on balance
• Attention influences sensory integration for postural control in older adults
• Biomechanics of slips.
• Quantification of direction and magnitude of cyclical postural sway using ellipses
• Psychological factors influencing recovery from balance disorders
• Paraspinal muscle response to electrical vestibular stimulation
• Designing safe job rotation schedules using optimization and heuristic search
• The influence of flooring on standing comfort and fatigue
• Postural control, gait and dopamine functions in parkinsonian movement disorders
• Digit kinematics during typing with standard and ergonomic keyboard configurations
• Measurements of wrist and finger postures: a comparison of goniometric and motion capture techniques
• Arm responses during slipping
• Fear of falling, its psychological constructs and gait adaptations associated with a perceived danger of slipping in older adults with mild mobility impairments
• Trailing response to slipping, an active reaction
• Modulation of gait variability in environments perceived as slippery in healthy adults
• Developing an observational instrument to evaluate personal computer keyboarding style
• Cognitive requirements for vestibular and ocular motor processing in healthy adults and patients with unilateral vestibular lesions
• The influence of dynamic visual cues for postural control in children aged 7-12 years
• Higher 1,25-dihydroxyvitamin D3 concentrations associated with lower fall rates in older community-dwelling women
• Reciprocal influence of concurrent walking and cognitive testing on performance in older adults
• Head sway response to optic flow: effect of age is more important than history of unilateral vestibular hypofunction
• Contribution of vision to balance in children four to eight years of age
• Effects of slip testing parameters on measured coefficient of friction
• Ground reaction forces during human locomotion on railroad ballast
• A model-based approach to attention and sensory integration in postural control of older adults
• Rater reliability and concurrent validity of the keyboard personal computer style instrument (K-PeCS)
• Effect of preparation on dual-task performance in postural control
• Correlation between EMG and COP onset latency in response to a horizontal platform translation
• Simulator sickness when performing gaze shifts within a wide field of view optic flow environment:
• Preliminary evidence for using virtual reality in vestibular rehabilitation
• Assessing occupational back injury risk using evolving neural networks
• Kinematics of the foot during slips
• Otolith-ocular responses in patients with surgically confirmed unilateral peripheral vestibular loss
• The steady state postural response to continuous sinusoidal galvanic vestibular stimulation
• Analysis and modeling of human postural control.
• Nonstationarities of postural sway: the utility of time-frequency analysis in studying human balance
• Acceleration threshold detection during short anterior and posterior perturbations of a translating platform
• Voluntary upper extremity movements in patients with unilateral peripheral vestibular hypofunction
• Evolutionary design of learning vector quantizations for back injury risk classification
• Heel contact dynamics during slip events on level and inclined surfaces
• Changes in gait when anticipating slippery floors
• Adaptation of vibration-induced postural sway in individuals with Parkinson’s disease
• Visual-vestibular interaction during OVAR in the elderly.
• The potential use of virtual reality in balance rehabilitation: Preliminary findings with the BNAVE
• Incorporating physical demand criteria into assembly line balancing
• Effect of flooring on standing comfort and fatigue
• Lower Extremity Corrective Reactions to Slip Events
• The measurement of slipperiness-an international scientific symposium.
• The effects of restricted workspace on lumbar spine loading
• Striatal dopaminergic denervation and gait in healthy adults
• Heel dynamics at heel contact contribute to slips and falls and are determined by joint torques
• Knee strength capabilities and slip severity
• Biomechanics of trailing leg response to slipping; evidence of interlimb and intralimb coordination
• Vestibulo-ocular function in anxiety disorders
• Multi-tasking: Association of poorer performance and a history of recurrent falls
• Visually induced postural sway in anxiety disorders
• Kinematics of heelstrike during walking and carrying: Implications for slip resistance testing
• Reliability and precision in electromyographic median power frequency of shoulder muscles during running
• Postural prioritization defines the interaction between a reaction time task and postural perturbations
• Postural adaptations to repeated optic flow stimulation in older adults
• Delays in auditory-cued step initiation are related to increased volume of white matter hyperintensities in older adults
• Sensory adaptation in human balance control: lessons for biomimetic robotic robots
• Space and motion discomfort and abnormal balance in patients with anxiety disorders

Book Chapters

• Measuring slipperiness – discussions on the state of the art and future research. Measuring Slipperiness-Human Locomotion and Surface Factors
• Measurement of slipperiness: fundamental concepts and definitions. Measuring Slipperiness-Human Locomotion and Surface Factors
• Biomechanics of slips. Measuring Slipperiness-Human Locomotion and Surface Factors Flooring and Standing Comfort, Working Postures and Movements - Tools for Evaluation and Engineering
• Slips and Falls, Working Postures and Movements - Tools for Evaluation and Engineering Ergonomic information resources, Maynard’s Industrial Engineering Handbook (5th Ed)
• Case Studies: Prevention of work-related musculoskeletal disorders in manufacturing and service environments, Maynard’s Industrial Engineering Handbook (5th Ed)
• Rehabilitation Biomechanics, Wiley Encyclopedia of Biomedical Engineering

Conference Proceedings

• Fear of falling: Psychological and gait constructs
• Anticipation of slippery floors: Muscle onsets and co-contraction of the stance leg
• Center of mass kinematics at slip onset and slip severity
• Initial condition variables and age group as determinates of slip severity
• Slip anticipation effects on hip/knee kinematics – Part 1: gait on dry floors
• Anticipation of slippery floors and biomechanics of slips
• Slip anticipation effects on hip/knee kinematics – Part 2: gait on glycerol contaminated floors
• Do cognitive challenges interfere with walking ability?
• Vestibular-induced eye movements while performing an information processing task in young and older humans.
• Kinematics of the slipping foot
• Validation of five times sit to stand in persons with vestibular disorders
• Introducing ADAMS, a mechanical system simulation software, to bioengineering students
• Whole body biomechanics of responses to slips
• Biomechanics of slips and falls
• Effect of having a-priori knowledge of the floors’ contaminant condition on the biomechanics of slips
• Joint kinematics of postural sway response to sinusoidal galvanic vestibular stimulation
• Slip anticipation effects on ground reaction forces
• Utilizing biomechanics to prevent slips and falls
• Heel acceleration at heel strike and slip outcome
• Trailing leg postural strategies during slipping
• Striatal doparminergic denervation and control of temporal gait variability in healthy adults
• The impact of anticipating slippery floors on spatial and temporal variability during gait
• Fear of falling, its psychological components and slip-warning induced gait adaptations in older adults with mild mobility impairments
• Swing phase interruption in a slip: active or passive response?
• Whole body postural responses to slips
• Arm movements and slip severity
• Aging-related striatal dopaminergic denervation, balance and gait in healthy adults
• Do vestibular inputs trigger upper body responses during a slip?
• Anthropometric parameters in the elderly: a DXA-based study
• Postural preparation defines the interaction between standing balance and in cognitive processes
• Measuring computer keyboard style
• Perceived anxiety in a virtual grocery store in persons with and without vestibular dysfunction
• Attention influences sensory integration during standing posture
• Delays in voluntary step initiation are related to increased volume of white matter hyperintensities in older adults
• Attentional mechanisms in balance control
• Whole body postural responses to slips
• The association between computer keyboard style and typing speed
• Modeling the friction in pin-on disk studies of shoe-floor contaminants
• White matter hyperintensities in localized motor tracts are associated with delays in step initiation during a choice step reaction task
• Attention influences balance in patients with vestibular disorders
• Biomechanics of slips and falls
• Load carrying and corrective responses to slip events
• Temporal dynamics of attention during a postural control task.
• Attentional effects during postural perturbations in young and older adults
• Attentional dynamics in older adults during perturbations
• Normal values for the five times sit to stand test and gait speed in healthy older adults
• Functional reach in older adults with and without vestibular dysfunction
• The influence of head position on postural sway during galvanic vestibular stimulation
• Adaptation and habituation in visually-induced postural sway
• Adjustments in gait biomechanics on potentially slippery floors
• Heel contact dynamics during slip events
• Adjustments in gait biomechanics on potentially slippery floors
• Otolith-ocular function in older adults
• Slip potentials during load carrying
• Proprioceptive control of posture in people with Parkinson’s disease
• The Influence of flooring on subjective standing comfort and fatigue
• Influence of flooring on objective standing fatigue measures
• Center of mass acceleration and slip outcome
• Knee strength and slip severity in young and older adults
• Aging-related dopamine denervation in the basal ganglia and balance in sway-referenced visual environments
• The long-term effect of otitis media on the vestibular system in children
• Postural measurements: seated subjects as gauges of cognitive engagement
• Postural sway adaptation during initial exposure to periodic and non-periodic optic flow
• Responses to a virtual reality grocery store in persons with and without vestibular dysfunction
• A model-based approach to attention and sensory integration in postural control of older adults
• Whole body locomotive biomechanics in slips, trips and falls
• Influence of change in surface support on standing postural sway in older adults
• Modeling attention sensory integration in postural control of older adults
• Measuring computer style: The frequency and distribution of computer keyboard behaviors
• Postural control in healthy older adults: age-dependent habituation to changes in visual input
• Intramural Internship: A Requirement of the Undergraduate Bioengineering Curriculum at the University of Pittsburgh
• Determining biomechanical properties of falls using an adult anthropometric dummy
• A mixed-lubrication model for shoe-floor friction applied to pin-on-disk apparatus