Program

The Winter School will involve a set of international experts in the field from the clinical, scientific and engineering communities. The list of confirmed lecturers is the following:

• Eugenio Guglielmelli (Università Campus Bio-Medico, Roma, Italy)
• Hermano Igo Krebs (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA)
• Michelle Johnson (Marquette University, USA)
• Jane Burridge (Univeristy of Shouthampton, UK)
• William Harwin (University of Reading, UK)
• Robert Riener (ETH Zürich, Switzerland)
• Henning Schmidt (Fraunhofer IPK, Germany)
• Etienne Burdet (Imperial College, UK)
• Xavier Navarro (Institut de Neurociències, Barcelona, Spain)
• Maria Chiara Carroza(Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Italy)
• Sunil K. Agrawal(Univ of Delaware, USA)

In addition to lectures by such well-known experts, the summer school will include practical exercises. The organisers of these activities at the UMH Labs are the following:

• Nicolás M. García (Miguel Hernández University of Elche, Spain)
• José M. Sabater (Miguel Hernández University of Elche, Spain)
• José M. Azorín (Miguel Hernández University of Elche, Spain)
• Carlos Pérez (Miguel Hernández University of Elche, Spain)

Lectures will be given in English. The instruction will take place for a period of one week from Sunday to Friday (March 30- April 4, 2008).

In adition, the students will be invited to submit their works on their research activities releated with the topic of the school as a short paper and to present it on Friday afternoon as a poster before the Panel Discussion.

The final program is:

	Sunday 30	Monday 31	Tuesday 1	Wednesday 2	Thursday 3	Friday 4
8:00-9:00		Active Breakfast	Active Breakfast	Active Breakfast	Active Breakfast	Active Breakfast
9:00-9:30		Welcome & Opening N. Garcia, H.I. Krebs, E. Guglielmelli	Workshop Presentations	Workshop Presentations	Workshop Presentations	Neuro Rehabilitation Present and Future Hermano I. Krebs
9.30 – 10.30		Introduction to Rehabilitation Robotics Hermano I. Krebs	Design criteria of rehabilitation robotic systems Eugenio Guglielmelli	End-effector Machines for Gait Rehabilitation Henning Schmidt r	Virtual/Tele Rehabiliation William S. Harwin
10.30 – 11.30		Clinical and neurophysiological motivations for application of robotics to rehabilitation Jane Burridge	Haptics in Rehabilitation William S. Harwin	Operational machines for arm rehabilitation Michelle Johnson	Research Trends in Rehabilitation Robotics Michelle Johnson	Neural interfaces applied to rehabilitation systems   Xavier Navarro
		“Tapas” Break	“Tapas” Break	“Tapas” Break	“Tapas” Break	“Tapas” Break
12.00  13.00		Human motor control: from motor learning to rehabilitation Etienne Burdet	Machines for Rehabilitation of the Lower Extremities Robert Riener	Exoskeletal machines for arm rehabilitation Robert Riener	From research to industrial applications: the Hocoma case-study	Hybrid Bionic Systems Beyond Orthotics Maria Chiara Carrozza
		Lunch	Lunch	Lunch	Lunch	Lunch
14.30 – 15.30	Reception at Huerto del Cura Hotel	Workshops   Robotics Lab.	Exoskeletons for Gait Assistance and Training of the Motor Impaired Sunil K. Agrawal	Workshops   Robotics Lab.	Social Events	Poster Presentation
						Panel discussion. Closing ceremony
16.00 – 17.00			Workshops Robotic Lab.
	19.30-21.00 Welcome Reception				20.00 – 24.00 Conference Dinner