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Welcome to the Cirris

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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Research Topics

Functions

Cognitive and behavioral • Motor, sensory and perception • Speech-related

Environment

Social • Technological • Physical

News

Presenters stand out at the Cirris 2022 Student Conference!

3 October 2022

On 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 2022

Congratulations 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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North American Congress on Biomechanics: Sheryl Bourgaize and Félix Fiset win the honours!

Congratulations to Cirris’ students Sheryl Bourgaize and Félix Fiset who won the Canadian Biomechanical Society President’s Award for their poster presented at the North American Congress on Biomechanics.

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Recent publications

Criterion validity of ActiGraph monitoring devices for step counting and distance measurement in adults and older adults: a systematic review

17 October 2022 - Krista Best

Public Transport Accessibility for Disabled People: Protocol of a Scoping Review (Preprint)

7 October 2022 - Krista Best

Providing Accessible ReCreation Outdoors–User-Driven Research on Standards: Protocol for Mobile and Web-Based Interviews for Winter Assessments

7 October 2022 - Marie Grandisson

Power Spectrum of Acceleration and Angular Velocity Signals as Indicators of Muscle Fatigue during Upper Limb Low-Load Repetitive Tasks

1 October 2022 - Jason Bouffard

Calibration and Adjustment Algorithm to Attenuate the Effect of Arm Orientation on an sEMG-Based Muscle Fatigue Indicator

1 October 2022 - Alexandre Campeau-Lecours

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The Cirris has more than 70 researchers from three Quebec universities and eight different faculties

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