Mobility in the
Technological Era

From Affective to Effective: The Role of Emotional Feedback in Promoting Motor Learning in Digital Environments: an ISF-funded research project exploring the effect of emotions in feedback provision to a motor learning task. As part of this project, we explore the ability of people with ADHD to use emotional information in feedback to modify learning of motor tasks in virtual reality.  

Cognitive balance control in people with anxiety – a multi-site research project, in collaboration with Dr. Eyal Fruchter (Rambam hospital), evaluating the neural and behavioral correlates of trait anxiety in health and disease, and the role of visual dependence in anxiety-related balance control.

Attentional demands of sensory integration – a multi-site joint research project, in collaboration with Dr. Anat Lubetzky (NYU), investigating the cognitive and motor requirements of static and dynamic balance in virtual environments among people with and without vestibular symptoms.

Texting on a mobile phone as an ecologically-valid dual task – a collaboration with Prof. Tamar Weiss and Dr. Rachel Kizony (University of Haifa), investigating the ability of young and older adults to text on a mobile phone with an without mixed reality displays.

Using smartglasses as means to evaluate attentional demands of walking: the effect of mixed reality on dual task performance – a collaboration with Dr. Joel Lanir and Dr. Rachel Kizony (University of Haifa), aimed to evaluate dual-task costs of walking with  smartglasses in different environments. Results from this work were disseminated in local media:
https://m.jpost.com/science/article-788158#788158 https://www.ynet.co.il/digital/technews/article/r1p9cxmht

The effect of emotional content on Texting while Walking performance in healthy young adults - In collaboration with Dr. Arik Cheshin (Head of the Department of Human Services, University of Haifa), evaluating the effect of emotional content of text messages while walking on task performance (texting, walking) among young adults.

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Dual-task walking before and after Total Knee Replacement – A joint project with Prof. Nimrod Rosen at Ha’Emek hospital in Afula aims to investigate the effect of Total Knee Replacement on dual-task walking performance among older adults,  In order to be able to understand rehabilitation more comprehensively for the elderly and address falls that may occur after the surgery.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38691445/