Welcome to the Product Evaluation and Application Research (PEAR) Lab
PEAR Lab Research Themes
Acceptance, adoption, and usability of rehabilitation, digital and healthcare technologies.
Implementation and validation of rehabilitation, digital and healthcare technologies.
Design and development of information and communication technologies-based platforms and use of data analytics.
Our highly qualified personnel (undergraduates, masters, PhDs, Postdoctoral Fellows, and clinicians) undertake projects and learn the skills to become creative innovators and change the future of rehabilitation, digital and healthcare technologies.
The PEAR lab has a long-stating collaboration with the Glenrose Rehabilitation Research, Innovation & Technology (GRRIT) Hub. The GRRIT hub develops technical solutions for challenges experienced by practitioners and people living with physical or cognitive disabilities and champions the commercial application of clinical research in rehabilitative healthcare.
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The University of Alberta, its buildings, labs, and research stations are primarily located on the traditional territory of Cree, Blackfoot, Métis, Nakota Sioux, Iroquois, Dene, and Ojibway/Saulteaux/Anishinaabe nations; lands that are now known as part of Treaties 6, 7, and 8 and homeland of the Métis. The University of Alberta respects the sovereignty, lands, histories, languages, knowledge systems, and cultures of First Nations, Métis and Inuit nations.