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The Fifth International Workshop on Virtual Rehabilitation (IWVR2006) will take place August 29 and 30, 2006 at Marriott Marquis Hotel, New York City, USA, in conjunction with the 28th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society

Deadline for ALL submissions is April 1, 2006

Call for Papers

Full papers are solicited related to the use of Virtual Reality in

• Musculo-skeletal virtual rehabilitation,
• Motor rehabilitation post-stroke,
• Assessment/rehabilitation of patients with cognitive deficits,
• Telerehabilitation and Haptics,
• Autism, ADHD and Developmental Disabilities,
• VR Exposure Therapy for Anxiety Disorders,
• VR for Pain Distraction,
• Cue Exposure methods for treating addictive behaviors,
• Integration of VR with psycho-physiological and brain imaging studies,
• Virtual Reality treatment of PTSD,
• Novel VR techniques in rehabilitation and Bio-feedback devices,
• Sociological, demographic and legal aspects of Virtual Rehabilitation

Best Paper Award (500 USD) sponsored by Hocoma AG

A Special Issue on IWVR06 will appear in the IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering. Authors who want to also be considered for this Special Issue should indicate so when submitting to IWVR06. Selected papers presented at IWVR06 will undergo a second review for the Special Issue.