We are INTER!
Interactive Technologies of Engineering in Rehabilitation
An interdisciplinary strategic group of researchers from natural sciences, engineering, health sciences, the humanities and social sciences.
INTER includes more than 100 researchers from different fields and universities.
INTER has two main areas of activity, Smart Home and Mobility, each based on two axes: 1. the design and prototyping of new interactive devices and systems, and 2. the evaluation and transfer of technology.
INTER : Over 130 mandates funded to date, and further opportunities for researchers.
News
Latest news about INTER
MIDI-INTER – June 2025 – COOK Ma Sécurité a tool to help seniors prepare meals safely
MIDI-INTER – May 2025 – Math and Robotics: The Key to Understanding Motor Control?
A new kind of poster to facilitate intersectorality – Modalities for the INTER 2025 scientific day
Working together to improve rehabilitation care and services
Over 100 researcher members
Kévin Bouchard
Université du Québec à Chicoutimi
Informatique
6 INTER mandates
Anouk Lamontagne
Université McGill
Physical and Occupational Therapy
5 INTER mandates
Mélanie Levasseur
Université de Sherbrooke
Réadaptation
1 INTER mandate
Jean-Sébastien Plante
Université de Sherbrooke
Génie mécanique
9 INTER mandates
Recently completed mandates
161 BandeFeedbackRespi
Portable breathing strips for data collection and transmission of haptic and visual signals during speech
175 LocomoT-IA
Structuring and use of historical data for the development of intelligent algorithms for locomotor training of users with physical impairments of the lower limbs
174 ParasportViz
Parasport Viz: A feedback application to optimize para-athlete training.
160 OPTISTIM
Optimizing functional electrical stimulation for personalized rehabilitation
178 DAVE
Embedded Audio-Video Device
164 AVAL-EAR
AVAL-EAR: In-ear technology for a better understanding of salivary flow
177 RéadapMS-IA
Precise real-time upper limb rehabilitation with haptic guidance using reinforcement learning
165 NEARS-LT
NEARS-LT: Co-design of a simplified remote monitoring platform for activities of daily living for the elderly and their families.
162 PhantomEEG
Help from a phantom head to recover brain electrocortical signals
Intervention Areas
Smart home
Solutions that contribute to instrument living environments and to endow ambient artificial intelligence able to provide ad hoc or continue assistance to occupants and to integrate into any day-to-day object (e.g.: door, stove, mug, fridge, sweater, etc.) or place (e.g.: shopping mall, pharmacy, waiting room in hospitals, etc.) so as to be transparent for occupants.
Mobility
Solutions that contribute to prevent, to delay or to substitute the decline of human mobility, i.e. the physical capacity to walk and move, and the use of objects required for personal well-being.
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