About us
The Centre for Leadership in Innovation supports the exploration, implementation and evaluation of innovative ideas that impact clients and families.
The Centre focuses on advancing novel ideas, building organizational capacity and moving innovations to the broader community through knowledge sharing and commercialization.
2017-18 Centre for Leadership projects
- Development of a remote monitoring system for heart rate and oxygen levels to be used by parents of children with disabilities
- Putting weighty topics into action: Sharing stories “from the floor” through a knowledge translation casebook to foster positive weight-related conversations
- KneuroKnits: Evaluating the impact of a knitting group for youth with neurodevelopmental disorders (e.g. autism) on social skills and anxiety
- Development of a lightweight high performance paediatric knee prosthesis for physically active children and youth with lower-limb amputations
- Improving the capacity of children to make informed decisions about their participation in research
2016-17 Centre for innovation projects
- Examining the utility of Near-Infrared Spectroscopy in the diagnosing of pain in children with autism spectrum disorders.
- Developing a variable friction-based swing phase controller to improve gait kinematics in physically active children and youth with lower-limb amputations
2015-16 Centre for Leadership in Innovation funded initiatives:
- Using interview circuits and simulation to embed clients, family members and staff as equal partner in hiring decisions: the creation of a how-to guide to aid Ontario hospitals
- Designing a lifelike and functional passive prosthetic hand for infants
- ScreenPlay – Expanding its reach through implementation at organizations outside of Holland Bloorview
- Functional Electrical Stimulation Therapy for children with Upper limb weakness post stroke: Evaluation of the MyndMove Technology” *project summary pending
Innovation Initiatives at Holland Bloorview
Interactive and Virtual Technology
- Active video gaming for activity promotion
- Interactive media in healthcare spaces
- Virtual Reality Therapy (VRT)
- Training contingency awareness through an interactive virtual environment
- Emotion-aware assistive technologies
Health and Wellness
Assistive Technology
- Sensory Feedback System for Lower-limb Amputees Using Vibrotactile Haptics
- Assessing the measurement performance of piezoelectric pressure sensors at the body/mobility assistive technology (MAT) interface
- Development of the Kinect virtual art program to physically engage children with severe impairments
- Enhancing the decoding of functional intention in children with severe disabilities through the use of e-textiles
- Tongue Movement Accelerometer: An alternative access pathway
- A case study of the usability and usefulness of a fabric based communication device for children with severe communication difficulties
Brain Computer Interface
- Adaptive classification of physiological signals by labelling with event-related potentials
- A comparison of tactile and visual based brain-computer interface spellers
- A double RC paradigm based hybrid BCI system
- A P300 BCI system based on three dimensional flash pattern
- A multi-modal human-machine interface integrating behavior and brain signals
- Towards Context-Aware Brain-Computer Interfaces
- An auditory-tactile based gaze-independent brain computer interface
- An error-related potential based self-correcting brain-computer interface speller
- Differentiation of NIRS signals from multiple cortical regions & development of an automated method for motion artifact removal
- A more user-friendly brain computer interface