Camila Shirota
Advanced Queensland Fellow
The Hopkins Centre, Griffith University.
Camila Shirota is the Research Lead of HabITec (2020-present) - a socio-technical space where rehabilitation stakeholders (people with disability, practitioners, researchers, designers and developers, among others) collaborate to provide tailored and innovative technological solutions. Camila’s goal is to improve the development and value of clinically relevant technologies for rehabilitation such as assistive and therapeutic devices. She is driven to increase the translation and implementation of technologies into the clinic and home. She received her Ph.D. degree in Biomedical Engineering (2015) from Northwestern University while working at the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago (now Shirley Ryan AbilityLab). During her Ph.D., she investigated able-bodied and above-knee amputee balance recovery from tripping perturbations during walking. She was then a post-doctoral researcher at ETH Zurich (2015-2019), where she used powered exoskeletons to investigated unimpaired walking, and strategies to restore locomotor function in people with spinal cord injury. She was also a researcher at the University of Zurich (2018-2019), where she studied the use of technology to support unsupervised gait training post-stroke.
Her research interests include:
- Co-design of state-of-the-art rehabilitation technologies
- Translation of technologies into clinical and home environments
- (Technology-based) Assessment of sensorimotor function.
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Current Projects
The impact of the introduction of the HabITec Lab at the Princess Alexandra Hospital
Published 7th October 2020
SEED PROJECT: Design Café – Innovation Through Lived Experience
Published 5th August 2024
Featured Publications
Immediate and Long-Term Implications of the COVID-19 Pandemic for People With Disabilities
Published 15th October 2020
