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Publications and Presentations

Data Ready for Journal of Rehabilitation R&D Publication

Van der Loos HFM, Harvey J, Bevly DM, Kautz SA, Schwandt DF, Anderson JH. Design of a computer-controlled dual-servomotor split-crank bicycle ergometer for studies in human neuromuscular control of the lower extremities. J Rehab Res Dev, in preparation.

Recent Presentations

Van der Loos HFM, Kautz SA, Schwandt DF, Anderson JH, Chen G, Bevly DM. A split-crank, servomotor-controlled bicycle ergometer design for studies in human biomechanics. Proc IEEE/RSJ Intl Conf Intelligent Robots and Systems, Lausanne, Switzerland, pp 1409-1414, 2002.

Symposium forIndustrial Collaboration between Okayama and California Toward the Development of Medical and Welfare Industries, Okayama, Japan,February 2000 - PDF

Chen G, Schwandt DF, Van der Loos HFM, Anderson JH, Ferris DP, Zajac FE, Kautz SA, Burgar CG, Patten C, Neptune RR, Gordon KE. Compliance-adjustable, force-sensing harness support for studying treadmill training in neurologically impaired subjects. Gait & Posture, 13: 293-294, 2001.

Jaffe DL, Schwandt DF, Anderson JH. Technology transfer of the Ralph fingerspelling hand. Conf Intellectual Property in the VA: Changes, Challenges, and Collaborations, Arlington, VA, 2001.

Sabelman EE, Schwandt DF, Jaffe DL. The WAMAS (wearable accelerometric motion analysis system: combining technology development and research in human mobility. Conf Intellectual Property in the VA: Changes, Challenges & Collaborations, Arlington, VA, 2001.

Invited International Design Forums

Feb 2000: Invited Speaker, Japan External Trade Organization (Okayama, Japan).  Keynote speaker at Okayama-California Symposium for Development of Medical and Health Care Industries, to audience of medical product company leaders, hospital directors, federal laboratories and university scientists, and city, prefecture and federal economic planners.  Visited companies, laboratories, institutions for disabled, and reviewed inventions.

Aug 1990 - Oct1990: Design Specialist-in-Residence, US Information Agency, Design USA Cultural Exchange Exhibit (Novosibirsk, USSR).  Presented to Soviet audiences giving examples of excellent product design in America and discussed designs for disabled, met with Soviet designers. Demonstrated Handbike design on exhibit.

Publications

Campbell JA, Sa’nchez E, Yang C, Mitsui I, Murthy G, Schwandt D, Fechner KP, Ballard RE, Watenpaugh DE, and Hargens AR, MRI evaluation of spinal length and vertebral body angle during loading with a spinal compression harness. Experimental Biology, San Francisco, April 1998.

Burgar CG, Breit GA, Schwandt DF, and Whalen RT,  Differential pressure - a dry alternative to aquatic therapy, 7th World Congress, International Rehabilitation Medicine Association, Washington, DC  Apr 9-16, 1994.

Whalen RT, Breit GA, Schwandt DF,  Simulation of hypo- and hyper-gravity locomotion, UC Davis Biomedical Engineering Symposium, Davis, CA, May 13, 1994.

Whalen, RT, Hargens, AR, Breit, GA, and Schwandt, DF, Application of air pressure loading to space flight exercise and walking assistance on Earth. AIAA Life Science and Space Medicine conference proceedings, Pp. 218-219, Houston, Apr 3-5, 1995.

Whalen, RT, Breit, GA, and Schwandt, DF, Simulation of hypo- and hyper-gravity locomotion. 18th Annual Meeting, American Society of Biomechanics conference proceedings, Columbus, OH, Pp. 209-210, Oct 13-15, 1994.

Schwandt, DF, Whalen, RT, Breit, GA, and Burgar, CG, Differential pressure walking assist. RESNA 17th Annual Conference on Rehabilitation Engineering, Nashville, Jun 1994.

Schwandt, DF, Watenpaugh, DE, Parazynski, SE, and Hargens, AR, Dynamic inter-limb resistance exercise device for long-duration space flight. Technology 2001 Conference, San Jose, CA, Dec 1991, NASA Conference Publication 3136, 2:533-537.

Hargens, AR, Whalen, RT, Watenpaugh, DE, Schwandt, DF and Krock, LP,  Lower body negative pressure to provide load bearing in space. Aviation and Space Environmental Medicine, 1991; 62:934-7.

Schwandt, D.F., Whalen, R.T., Watenpaugh, D.E., Parazynski, S.E., and Hargens, A.R., Development of exercise devices to minimize musculoskeletal deconditioning in microgravity.   International Space Physiology Conference, Leningrad, Oct 1990, Supplement to The Physiologist, American Physiological Society, 1991.

Whalen, R.T., Hargens, A.R., Schwandt, D.F., and Watenpaugh, D.E.,  Musculoskeletal loading or unloading with differential lower body pressure. 37th Annual Meeting, Orthopaedic Research Society, Anaheim, 1991.

Van der Loos, H.F.M., Hammel, J.M., and Schwandt, D. Design and evaluation of a vocational desktop robot. Proceedings of the 12th Annual Conference of Rehabilitation Engineering, New Orleans, Vol. 9, Pp. 1 07-1 08, 1989.

Parazynski, S.E., Schwandt, D.F., Whalen, R.T., Aratow, M., and Hargens, A.R., Development of an exercise device to prevent musculoskeletal deconditioning during human spaceflight. Clin. Res. 37, 220A, 1989.

Leifer, L., Jameson, J., LeBlanc, M., Wilson, D., Sabelman, E. and Schwandt, D., Design, development and evaluation of an EVA preshensor. Proceedings, Workshop on Space Telerobotics, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, G. Rodriguez, ed., 1987.

Aldrich, J.C., Schwandt, D.F., Sabelman, E.E. and Van der Loos, H.F.M., Computer-aided design of rehabilitation devices. Proceedings of the 9th Annual Conference on Rehabilitation Engineering , Minneapolis, Vol. 6, Pp. 190-192, Jun 1986.

Schwandt, D.F., Aldrich, J.C. and Zomlefer, M.R., A modular multiple drive/load ergometer for the development of an optimal biomechanical model of the upper limb. Proceedings of the 9th Annual Conference on Rehabilitation Engineering Minneapolis, Vol. 6, Pp. 429-431, 1986.

Schwandt, D.F. The Sunburst tandem. Proceedings of the 8th Annual Conference on Rehabilitation Engineering, Memphis, Vol. 5, Pp. 427-428,1985.

Schwandt, D.F., Design development of arm--powered bicycles for the disabled. Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE ) Intemational Congress Detroit, SAE Paper#840023, 1984.

Schwandt, D.F., Zomlefer, M.R., Boylls, C.C., Onyski, J.H., Cohen, L.A. and Zajac, F.E., An apparatus for studying the neural control and biomechanics of bilateral coordination in conventional versus novel pedaling. SAE International Congress, Detroit, #840029, 1984.

Schwandt, D.F., Para--Bike: an arm--powered bicycle. Proceedings of the 6th Annual Conference on Rehabilitation Engineering, San Diego, Vol. 3, Pp. 378-380, 1983.

Schwandt, D.F., Para--Bike: development of an arm--powered bicycle. Wheelchair 111 - Report of a Workshop on Specially Adapted Wheelchairs and Sport Wheelchairs, VA RR&D Service and RESNA, San Diego, 44-46, 1982.

Schwandt, D.F., Para--Bike - a recreational bicycle for individuals who do not have the use of their legs. Proccedings, 4th Annual Conference on Rehabilitation Engineering, Washington, D.C., p61-63, 1981.

Schwandt, D.F., Para--Bike. Sports N Spokes, The Magazine for Wheelchair Sports and Recreation, Phoenix, Vol. 6, No. 4, Pp. 18, 19, and 21, 1980.

Wood, R.L., Wells, P.E.H. and Schwandt, D.F., Interfacing schemes for solar collectors and boiler plant for fossile fuel savings. US Department of Energy, Solar Industrial Process Heat Conference, Houston, 1980.