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Michael R. Kalyn

- Verified email at usask.ca - Cited by 780

Michael Kalyn

- Verified email at uottawa.ca - Cited by 97

Biofeedback game design: using direct and indirect physiological control to enhance game interaction

LE Nacke, M Kalyn, C Lough, RL Mandryk - Proceedings of the SIGCHI …, 2011 - dl.acm.org
Prior work on physiological game interaction has focused on dynamically adapting games
using physiological sensors. In this paper, we propose a classification of direct and indirect …

Effects of PFOS, F-53B and OBS on locomotor behaviour, the dopaminergic system and mitochondrial function in developing zebrafish (Danio rerio)

M Kalyn, H Lee, J Curry, W Tu, M Ekker… - Environmental …, 2023 - Elsevier
Perfluorooctanesulfonic acid (PFOS) has widely been reported to persist in the environment
and to elicit neurotoxicological effects in wildlife and humans. Following the restriction of …

Games as neurofeedback training for children with FASD

RL Mandryk, S Dielschneider, MR Kalyn… - Proceedings of the 12th …, 2013 - dl.acm.org
Biofeedback games help people maintain specific mental or physical states and are useful to
help children with cognitive impairments learn to self-regulate their brain function. However…

[HTML][HTML] Comprehensive analysis of neurotoxin-induced ablation of dopaminergic neurons in zebrafish larvae

M Kalyn, K Hua, S Mohd Noor, CED Wong, M Ekker - Biomedicines, 2019 - mdpi.com
Neurotoxin exposure of zebrafish larvae has been used to mimic a Parkinson’s disease (PD)
phenotype and to facilitate high-throughput drug screening. However, the vulnerability of …

Designing movement-based play with young people using powered wheelchairs

K Gerling, K Hicks, M Kalyn, A Evans… - Proceedings of the 2016 …, 2016 - dl.acm.org
Young people using powered wheelchairs have limited access to engaging leisure activities.
We address this issue through a two-stage project; 1) the participatory development of a set …

Wheelchair-based game design for older adults

KM Gerling, RL Mandryk, MR Kalyn - Proceedings of the 15th …, 2013 - dl.acm.org
Few leisure activities are accessible to institutionalized older adults using wheelchairs; in
consequence, they experience lower levels of perceived health than able-bodied peers. Video …

[HTML][HTML] Cerebroventricular microinjections of MPTP on adult zebrafish induces dopaminergic neuronal death, mitochondrial fragmentation, and sensorimotor …

M Kalyn, M Ekker - Frontiers in Neuroscience, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Mitochondria are dynamic organelles that mediate the energetic supply to cells and mitigate
oxidative stress through the intricate balance of fission and fusion. Mitochondrial dysfunction …

KinectArms: a toolkit for capturing and displaying arm embodiments in distributed tabletop groupware

AM Genest, C Gutwin, A Tang, M Kalyn… - Proceedings of the 2013 …, 2013 - dl.acm.org
Gestures are a ubiquitous part of human communication over tables, but when tables are
distributed, gestures become difficult to capture and represent. There are several problems: …

Creating wheelchair-controlled video games: Challenges and opportunities when involving young people with mobility impairments and game design experts

KM Gerling, C Linehan, B Kirman, MR Kalyn… - International Journal of …, 2016 - Elsevier
Although participatory design (PD) is currently the most acceptable and respectful process
we have for designing technology, recent discussions suggest that there may be two barriers …

KINECTwheels wheelchair-accessible motion-based game interaction

KM Gerling, MR Kalyn, RL Mandryk - CHI'13 Extended Abstracts on …, 2013 - dl.acm.org
The increasing popularity of full-body motion-based video games creates new challenges
for game accessibility research. Many games strongly focus on able-bodied persons and …