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aisling kelliher

Aisling Kelliher is an Associate Professor in the Computer Science Department at Virginia Tech, where she also has a joint appointment in the Institute for Creativity, Arts, and Technology and the School of Visual Art. She co-leads the Interactive Neurorehabilitation (INR) Lab at VT with Dr. Thanassis Rikakis. The work of the INR lab is generously supported by funding grants from the National Science Foundation #2014499 and the National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research (NIDILRR). For the academic 2021/2022 year, she is also a visiting associate professor at the School of Cinematic Arts at the University of Southern California.

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In March 2022, we installed our stroke assessment system at the renowned Shirley Ryan Ability Lab in Chicago to evaluate 100 patients over the next few months.

Aisling's co-authored systematic review Inclusion of clinicians in the development and evaluation of clinical AI tools: A systematic literature review. appeared in March in Frontiers in Psychology

You can read the online version of her paper Capturing Upper Body Kinematics and Localization with Low-cost Sensors for Rehabilitation Applications also recently appeared in the Sensors journal.

Aisling is co-chair of the Accessibility and Aging subcommittee for CHI 2022

Aisling co-chaired the AAAI Fall Symposium 'Human Partnership with Medical Artificial Intelligence' which was held virtually in November 2021.

Aisling published two co-authored journal articles in Fall 2021, including Automated Movement Assessment in Stroke Rehabilitation in Frontiers in Neurology and Smart Skin: Vision-Based Soft Pressure Sensing System for In-Home Hand Rehabilitation in Soft Robotics.

In August, 2021, Aisling moved with her family to Los Angeles to take up a position as a visiting associate professor in the School of Cinematic Arts at the University of Southern California. She will continue working at Virginia Tech to ensure the successful graduation of all of her wonderful graduate students!

As the regular technical correspondent on Culture File, an Irish national radio show, Aisling has discussed a diverse array of subjects including recent interviews with host Luke Clancy about online audio streaming financial models, a four person debate about the pros and cons of NFTs and TikTok activism

Listen to a selection of some recent shows below!

select recent and forthcoming publications

N. Bhatti, A. Blessing Mbakwe, S. Nnadi, G. Saarunya Clarke, A. Gautam, D Scott McCrickard, A. Kelliher. (2022). Intimate Narratives: An Assets-Based Approach To Develop Holistic Perspectives of Student Mothers’ Lives and Their Use of Technology in Parenting, forthcoming at ACM CSCW 2022

A. Sarker, D-R. Emenonye, A. Kelliher, T. Rikakis, R. M. Buehrer, A. Asbeck. (2022). Capturing Upper Body Kinematics and Localization with Low-cost Sensors for Rehabilitation Applications, Sensors, 2022, 22, 2300.

S. Tulk Jesso, A. Kelliher, H. Sanghavi, T. Martin, SE Parker. (2022). Inclusion of clinicians in the development and evaluation of clinical AI tools: A systematic literature review. Frontiers in Psychology, Vol 13, 2022.

N Bhatti, L. Kotut, D. Haqq, T. Stelter, M. Saaty, A. Kelliher, S. McCrickard. (2021). Parenting, Studying And Working At Home In A Foreign Country: How International Student Mothers In The US Use Screen Media For And With Their Young Children, forthcoming at CSCW, October 2021

A. Tamim, T. Kowshik, T. Rikakis, P. Turaga, A. Kelliher, JB. Huan, S. Wolf. (2021). Automated Movement Assessment in Stroke Rehabilitation, Frontiers in Neurology, Volume 12, pages 1396.