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The Cirris has the mission to develop and mobilize the knowledge that enables social participation of people with disabilities. Driven by a profound culture of interdisciplinary and intersectoral collaboration, this mission is kept up to date through the training of students from various disciplines as well as through the research that is done in close collaboration with disabled people and community partners, various levels of government, healthcare and social services, and the industry.
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Seniors at higher risk of pedestrian collisions
8 February 2023When driving in a public place, seniors use a different pedestrian avoidance strategy than young people, shows a team from Université Laval following experiments in a virtual environment.
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Presenters stand out at the Cirris 2022 Student Conference!
3 October 2022On Thursday, September 29, the 11th Cirris Student Conference was held at the Musée National des Beaux-Arts du Québec. The event generated rich exchanges between students,
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Marianne Boyer published in IEEE Sensors
29 August 2022Congratulations to Marianne Boyer, a student at Cirris under the supervision of Professor Alexandre Campeau-Lecours, for her article entitled Calibration and Adjustment Algorithm to Attenuate the Effect of Arm Orientation on a sEMG-Based Muscle Fatigue Indicator,
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Recent publications
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The Cirris has more than 70 researchers from three Quebec universities and eight different faculties
MEET OUR RESEARCHERS 
Catherine Mercier, erg., Ph.D.
neurorehabilitation, pain, sensorimotor integration, upper limb, brain stimulation, virtual reality, robotics
Alexandra Lecours, erg., Ph.D.
work rehabilitation, health and safety in the workplace, aging workers, qualitative research, participatory research
Vincent Martel-Sauvageau, orthoph., Ph.D.
motor speech disorders, dysarthria, apraxia of speech, Parkinson's disease, intelligibility
Marie-Christine Ouellet, Ph.D.
head trauma, loved ones, mental health, cognition, psychological adaptation
Would you like to support research?
You can do it via the Fondation Élan.