The Polish Chapter of IEEE Robotics and Automation Society invites its members to join an English-language Polish-Japanese session held during the XXII Symposium of the Polish Society of Rehabilitation. The session brings together Lodz University of Technology, Nagoya Institute of Technology and the Neurorehabilitation Student Research Group of the Medical University of Lodz. Topics include hand rehabilitation, iWakka, StretchBox and occupational therapy in Japan.

Participation for IEEE RAS members is remote via Microsoft Teams. Registration through vTools is required. The meeting link will be available to registered participants.

Programme:
Yoshifumi Morita — iWakka: An Engineering Approach to Quantitative Assessment of Human Grasping Force Control (15 min)
Klaudia Marek-Standerska — How to effectively exercise with a patient suffering from hand paresis (15 min)
Kazuya Toshima — Preliminary Clinical Outcomes of Hand Function Rehabilitation Using StretchBox in Individuals with Stroke: A Two-case Series (10 min)
Mahiro Mori — Frequency Dependence of Subjectively Equivalent Vibration Amplitudes Using iWakka-Vibe (10 min)
Aiko Imai — Occupational Therapy in Japan (15 min)
Igor Zubrycki — Modelling StretchBox device: why StretchBox device moves the hand (10–15 min)
Discussion (10 min)