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Marcia K. O'Malley

Marcia K. O'Malley

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Engineering and Technology

D-Index
46
Citations
8309
World Ranking
5148
National Ranking
1462

Overview

Marcia K. O'Malley is affiliated with Rice University in the United States. Their research spans several interconnected fields, with a primary focus on medicine, neuroscience, and engineering. Within these areas, their work notably covers subfields such as cognitive neuroscience, biomedical engineering, rehabilitation, experimental and cognitive psychology, and human-computer interaction.

The scientist explores a variety of topics related to tactile and sensory interactions, muscle activation and electromyography studies, stroke rehabilitation and recovery, multisensory perception and integration, EEG and brain-computer interfaces, teleoperation and haptic systems, as well as spinal cord injury research.

Frequent publication venues for this researcher include:

  • IEEE Transactions on Haptics
  • IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering
  • Science Robotics
  • Advanced Intelligent Systems
  • Journal of Vascular Surgery

Recent papers authored by Marcia K. O'Malley illustrate the scope and application of their research:

  • A decade retrospective of medical robotics research from 2010 to 2020, 2021, Science Robotics
  • A review of methods for achieving upper limb movement following spinal cord injury through hybrid muscle stimulation and robotic assistance, 2020, Experimental Neurology
  • Neural activity modulations and motor recovery following brain-exoskeleton interface mediated stroke rehabilitation, 2020, NeuroImage Clinical
  • Design, Control, and Psychophysics of Tasbi: A Force-Controlled Multimodal Haptic Bracelet, 2022, IEEE Transactions on Robotics
  • Syntacts: Open-Source Software and Hardware for Audio-Controlled Haptics, 2020, IEEE Transactions on Haptics

Marcia K. O'Malley collaborates frequently with several researchers, including Zane A. Zook, Nathan Dunkelberger, Daniel J. Preston, Jennifer L. Sullivan, and Barclay Jumet. These collaborative relationships have contributed to advancing knowledge in their shared fields of study.

Best Publications

  • A decade retrospective of medical robotics research from 2010 to 2020.

    Pierre E. Dupont;Bradley J. Nelson;Michael Goldfarb;Blake Hannaford

  • Design of a haptic arm exoskeleton for training and rehabilitation

    A. Gupta;M.K. O'Malley

  • A Review of Intent Detection, Arbitration, and Communication Aspects of Shared Control for Physical Human-Robot Interaction

    Dylan P. Losey;Craig G. McDonald;Edoardo Battaglia;Marcia K. O'Malley

  • Design, Control and Performance of RiceWrist: A Force Feedback Wrist Exoskeleton for Rehabilitation and Training

    Abhishek Gupta;Marcia K. O'Malley;Volkan Patoglu;Charles Burgar

  • Current Trends in Robot-Assisted Upper-Limb Stroke Rehabilitation: Promoting Patient Engagement in Therapy

    Amy A. Blank;James A. French;Ali Utku Pehlivan;Marcia K. O’Malley

  • Minimal Assist-as-Needed Controller for Upper Limb Robotic Rehabilitation

    Ali Utku Pehlivan;Dylan P. Losey;Marcia K. OMalley

  • Shared Control in Haptic Systems for Performance Enhancement and Training

    Marcia K. O’Malley;Abhishek Gupta;Matthew Gen;Yanfang Li

  • An index finger exoskeleton with series elastic actuation for rehabilitation

    Priyanshu Agarwal;Jonas Fox;Youngmok Yun;Marcia K. O'Malley

  • Design and Optimization of an EEG-Based Brain Machine Interface (BMI) to an Upper-Limb Exoskeleton for Stroke Survivors

    Nikunj A. Bhagat;Anusha Venkatakrishnan;Berdakh Abibullaev;Edward J. Artz

  • Learning Robot Objectives from Physical Human Interaction

    Andrea Bajcsy;Dylan P. Losey;Marcia K. O’Malley;Anca D. Dragan

  • Normalized Movement Quality Measures for Therapeutic Robots Strongly Correlate With Clinical Motor Impairment Measures

    Ozkan Celik;Marcia K O'Malley;Corwin Boake;Harvey S Levin

  • Hybrid Rigid-Soft Hand Exoskeleton to Assist Functional Dexterity

    Chad G. Rose;Marcia K. O'Malley

  • Design and validation of the RiceWrist-S exoskeleton for robotic rehabilitation after incomplete spinal cord injury

    Ali Utku Pehlivan;Fabrizio Sergi;Andrew Erwin;Nuray Yozbatiran

  • Position Synchronization in Bilateral Teleoperation Under Time-Varying Communication Delays

    Vinay Chawda;Marcia K. O’Malley

  • The Task-Dependent Efficacy of Shared-Control Haptic Guidance Paradigms

    D. Powell;M. K. O'Malley

  • A Subject-Adaptive Controller for Wrist Robotic Rehabilitation

    Ali Utku Pehlivan;Fabrizio Sergi;Marcia K. OMalley

  • Design and characterization of the OpenWrist: A robotic wrist exoskeleton for coordinated hand-wrist rehabilitation

    Evan Pezent;Chad G. Rose;Ashish D. Deshpande;Marcia K. O'Malley

  • Incorporating simulation in vascular surgery education

    Jean Bismuth;Michael A. Donovan;Marcia K. O'Malley;Hosam F. El Sayed

  • Negative efficacy of fixed gain error reducing shared control for training in virtual environments

    Yanfang Li;Volkan Patoglu;Marcia K. O'Malley

  • Mechanical design of a distal arm exoskeleton for stroke and spinal cord injury rehabilitation

    Ali Utku Pehlivan;Ozkan Celik;Marcia K. O'Malley

  • Learning from Physical Human Corrections, One Feature at a Time

    Andrea Bajcsy;Dylan P. Losey;Marcia K. O'Malley;Anca D. Dragan

Frequent Co-Authors

Jose L. Contreras-Vidal
Jose L. Contreras-Vidal University of Houston
Michael D. Byrne
Michael D. Byrne Rice University
Walid Taha
Walid Taha Halmstad University
Michael Goldfarb
Michael Goldfarb Vanderbilt University
Anca D. Dragan
Anca D. Dragan University of California, Berkeley
Charles Consel
Charles Consel Institut Polytechnique de Bordeaux
Robert G. Grossman
Robert G. Grossman Houston Methodist
Alan B. Lumsden
Alan B. Lumsden Houston Methodist
Benjamin J. Fregly
Benjamin J. Fregly Rice University
Richard G. Baraniuk
Richard G. Baraniuk Rice University

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