2026

•  Ayazi, M., Sahin, I., Mucchiani, C., Kokkoni, E., Karydis, K. (2026) Data-driven Modeling of Forces Exerted by Pneumatic Actuators for a Pediatric Exosuit. Advanced Intelligent Systems [In Press]

2025

• McCarty, T., Zhang, W., Huang, Z., Chen, J., Kokkoni, E. (2025) An Adaptive Difficulty Algorithm to Personalize Mixed Reality Pediatric Motor Rehabilitation. International Society for Virtual Rehabilitation  (ISVR) Conference [In Press]

• Bose, S., Dela Cruz, H., Dutta, A., Kokkoni, E., Karydis, K., Roy Chowdhury, A.K. (2025) Leveraging Synthetic Adult Datasets for Unsupervised Infant Pose Estimation. IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops (CVPRW), pp. 5562-5571, DOI: 10.1109/CVPRW67362.2025.00553  

• McCarty, T., Dube, J., O'Mari, O., Rico, C., Farha, A., McHugh, M., McKee, R., Karydis, K., Kokkoni, E. (2025) Design of a Pneumatic Splint for Forearm Fracture Immobilization. IEEE International Conference on Rehabilitation Robotics (ICORR), pp. 1687-1692, DOI: 10.1109/ICORR66766.2025.11063069 

• Ayazi, M., Sahin, I., Mucchiani, C., Kokkoni, E., Karydis, K. (2025) Analysis of Forces Exerted by Shoulder and Elbow Fabric-Based Pneumatic Actuators for Pediatric Exosuits. IEEE International Conference on Rehabilitation Robotics (ICORR), pp. 958-963, DOI: 10.1109/ICORR66766.2025.11063088 

  • • McCarty, T., Galloway, C., Kokkoni, E. Effects of Body Weight Support on Limb Kinematics and Coordination During Standing of Near-Walking Infants. Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience (SfN), November 2025, San Diego, CA. SfN 2025 Proceedings 

    • Sahin, I., *Stepanian, A., Christopoulos, V., Kokkoni, E. Effect of Reaching Height and Initial Hand Position on Upper Limb Kinematics in Infants. Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience (SfN), November 2025, San Diego, CA. SfN 2025 Proceedings 

    • Stepanian, A., Sakellaridi, S., *Sahin, I., Alaniz, M., Harris, Y., Liu, C., Kokkoni, E., Christopoulos, V. Mapping Infant Brain Activity During Goal-Directed Reaching Movements Using Functional Ultrasound Imaging. Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience (SfN), November 2025, San Diego, CA. SfN 2025 Proceedings 

    • Sahin, I., Ayazi, M., Mucchiani, C, Karydis, K., Kokkoni, E. Force Characterization of Soft Pneumatic Actuators for a Pediatric Upper Extremity Wearable Exosuit. Annual Meeting of the Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES), October 2025, San Diego, CA. BMES 2025 Proceedings 

    • Barahona, M., Sahin, I., Ayazi, M., Mucchiani, C, Karydis, K., Kokkoni, E. Design and Fabrication Considerations of Pneumatic Actuators for a Pediatric Exosuit. Annual Meeting of the Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES), October 2025, San Diego, CA. BMES 2025 Proceedings 

    • McCarty, T., Hernandez, I., Kokkoni, E. A Post-Processing Pipeline Utilizing Biomechanical Constraints for Action Classification in Infant Locomotion. Annual Meeting of the Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES), October 2025, San Diego, CA. BMES 2025 Proceedings 

    • McCarty, T., Dimaranan, F., Glauner, B., Ng, T., Rauch, C., Tulpo, A., McKee, R., Kokkoni, E. Personalized Physiological Sensing for a Pediatric Body Weight Support Harness. Annual Meeting of the Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES), October 2025, San Diego, CA. BMES 2025 Proceedings 

    • McCarty, T., Nguyen, L., Galloway, C., Kokkoni, E. (2025) Effects of Body Weight Support on Center of Mass Kinematics During Infant Crawling. Annual Meeting of the American Society of Biomechanics (ASB), August 2025, Pittsburgh, PA. ASB 2025 Proceedings 

    • Sahin, I., Barahona, M., Kokkoni, E. (2025) Effects of Moving Objects on Infant Reaching Kinematics. Annual Meeting of the American Society of Biomechanics (ASB), August 2025, Pittsburgh, PA. ASB 2025 Proceedings 

2024

• Sahin, I., Ayazi, M., Mucchiani, C., Dube, J., Karydis, K., & Kokkoni, E. (2024). Evaluation of fabric-based pneumatic actuator enclosure and anchoring configurations in a pediatric soft robotic exosuit. Frontiers in Robotics and AI, 11, 1302862. DOI: 10.3389/frobt.2024.1302862 

  • • McCarty, T., Surender, S., Shu, C., Huang, Z., Chen, J., Kokkoni, E. (2024) Integrating Mixed Reality and Body Weight Support Technology for Immersive Pediatric Rehabilitation.  International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC), pp. 1-4, DOI: 10.1109/EMBC53108.2024.10781535 

    • Kouvoutsakis, G., Baxevani, K., Orozco, J., Tanner, H.G., Artemiadis, P., Galloway, J., Huang, G., Kokkoni, E. (2024) A Pediatric Motor Training Environment Based on Human-swarm Interactions.  IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning (ICDL), pp. 1-6, DOI: 10.1109/ICDL61372.2024.10644630 

      • • Kuo, E., MacAluso, C., Gowda, A., Rauch, C., Sahin, I., Kokkoni, E. (2024) An Upper Body Physical Model for Bench Testing of Assistive Devices for Infants. Annual Meeting of the Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES), October 2024, Baltimore, MD.  BMES 2024 Proceedings 

        • McCarty, T., Sevic, S., Li, X., Do, N., Conley, T., Romero, E.J., Barrett, M., Gardner-Hoag, J., Nelson, R., Kokkoni, E. (2024) Design of A Modular Pediatric Harness for Body-Weight Supported Motor Training. Annual Meeting of the American Society of Biomechanics (ASB), August 2024, Madison, WI. ASB 2024 Proceedings 

        • Sahin, I., McCarty, T., Kouvoutsakis, G., Kokkoni, E. Automated Tracking of Infant Reaching: Evaluating a Pose Estimation Tool. Annual Meeting of the American Society of Biomechanics (ASB), August 2024, Madison, WI. ASB 2024 Proceedings 

        • Kouvoutsakis, G., Peiris, P., Kokkoni, E., Karydis, K. Exploration of a New Inter-Limb Coordination Training Paradigm using Socially Assistive Aerial Robots and Humanoid Synthetic Agents. IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning (ICDL), May 2024, Austin, TX. 

2023

• Agyeman, K., McCarty, T., Multani, H., Mattingly, K., Koziar, K., Chu, J., Liu, C., Kokkoni, E., Christopoulos, V. (2023) Task-based functional neuroimaging in infants: a systematic review. Frontiers in Neuroscience, 17, 1233990. DOI: 10.3389/fnins.2023.1233990

  • • Sahin, I., Ayazi, M., Mucchiani, C., Dube, J., Karydis, K., Kokkoni, E. (2023) A Fabric-based Pneumatic Actuator for the Infant Elbow: Design and Comparative Kinematic Analysis. IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics (ROBIO), pp. 1-6, DOI: 10.1109/ROBIO58561.2023.10354824 

    • Mucchiani, C., Liu, Z., Sahin, I., Kokkoni, E., Karydis, K. (2023) Robust Generalized Proportional Integral Control for Trajectory Tracking of Soft Actuators toward Application to a Pediatric Wearable Robotic Assistive Device. IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), pp. 559-566, DOI: 10.1109/IROS55552.2023.10342528 

      • • Haworth, J., Dube, J., Kokkoni, E. Presence of Chaos in Arm Swing Dynamics During Walking. Annual Conference of the Gait and Clinical Movement Analysis Society (GCMAS), June 2023, High Point, NC.  GCMAS 2023 Proceedings 

2022

• Kouvoutsakis, G., Kokkoni, E., Karydis, K. (2022) Using Infant Limb Movement Data to Control Small Aerial Robots. IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning (ICDL), pp. 287-292. DOI: 10.1109/ICDL53763.2022.9962205 

• Sahin, I., Dube, J., Mucchiani, C., Karydis, K., Kokkoni, E. (2022) A bidirectional fabric-based pneumatic actuator for the infant shoulder: Design and comparative kinematic analysis. 31st IEEE International Conference on Robot & Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN), pp. 371-376. DOI: 10.1109/RO-MAN53752.2022.9900571 

• Mucchiani, C., Liu, Z., Sahin, I., Dube, J., Vu, L., Kokkoni, E., Karydis, K. (2022) Closed-loop position control of a pediatric soft robotic wearable device for upper extremity assistance. 31st IEEE International Conference on Robot & Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN), pp. 1514-1519. DOI: 10.1109/RO-MAN53752.2022.9900650 

• Kouvoutsakis, G., Baxevani, K., Tanner, H.G., Kokkoni, E. (2022) Feasibility of Using the Robot Sphero to Promote Perceptual-Motor Exploration in Infants. ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI), pp. 850-854. DOI: 10.1109/HRI53351.2022.9889397 

  • • Kokkoni, E., Sahin, I., McCarty, T., Galloway, J.C. Effects of Dynamic Body Weight Support on Spontaneous Leg Movement During Standing in Infants. 2022 9th World Congress of Biomechanics (WCB), July 2022, Taipei, Taiwan (Hybrid).

2021

• Kokkoni, E., Galloway, J.C. (2021) User-centered Assistive Technology Assessment of a Portable Open-area Body Weight Support System for In-Home Use. Disability and Rehabilitation: Assistive Technology, 16(5), 505-512. DOI: 10.1080/17483107.2019.1683236 

  • • Sahin, I., Bashir, L., Arnold, A., Tanner, H.G., Kokkoni, E. (2021) Network Analysis of an Infant's Motor Actions Performed in a Robot-Assisted Learning Environment. 30th IEEE International Conference on Robot & Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN), pp. 757-762. DOI: 10.1109/RO-MAN50785.2021.9515493 

    • Dechemi, A., Bhakri, V., Sahin, I., Modi, A., Mestas, J., Peiris, P., Barrundia D.E., Kokkoni, E., Karydis, K. (2021) BabyNet: A Lightweight Network for Infant Reaching Action Recognition in Unconstrained Environments to Support Future Pediatric Rehabilitation Applications. 30th IEEE International Conference on Robot & Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN), pp. 461-467. DOI: 10.1109/RO-MAN50785.2021.9515507 

    • Kokkoni, E., Arnold, A., Baxevani, K., Tanner, H.G. (2021) Infants Respond to Robots’ Need for Assistance in Pursuing Action-based Goals. Companion of the ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI), pp. 47-51. DOI: 10.1145/3434074.3447126 

      • • Sahin, I., Modi, A., Kokkoni, E. Evaluation of OpenPose for Quantifying Infant Reaching Motion. American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine (ACRM), October 2021, Virtual. DOI: 10.1016/j.apmr.2021.07.728 

2020

• Kokkoni, E., Mavroudi, E., Zehfroosh, A., Galloway, J.C., Heinz, J., Vidal, R., Tanner, H.G. (2020) GEARing Smart Environments for Pediatric Motor Rehabilitation. Journal of Neuroengineering and Rehabilitation, 17(1), 16. DOI: 10.1186/s12984-020-0647-0 

• Kokkoni, E., Stoner, T., Galloway, J.C. (2020) In-Home Mobility Training With a Portable Body Weight Support System of an Infant with Down Syndrome. Pediatric Physical Therapy, 32(4), E76-E82. DOI: 10.1097/PEP.0000000000000752 

• Kokkoni, E., Liu, Z., Karydis, K. (2020) Development of a Soft Robotic Wearable Device to Assist Infant Reaching. ASME Journal of Engineering and Science in Medical Diagnostics and Therapy, 3(2), 021109. DOI: 10.1115/1.4046397 

• Arnold, A., Haworth, J., Moran, V., Abulhasan, A., Steinbuch, N., Kokkoni, E. (2020) Exploring the Unmet Need for Technology to Promote Motor Ability in Children Younger Than 5 Years of Age: A Systematic Review. Archives of Rehabilitation Research and Clinical Translation, 2(2), 100051. DOI: 10.1016/j.arrct.2020.100051 

  • • Pacheco, C., Mavroudi, E., Kokkoni, E., Tanner, H.G., Vidal, R. (2020) A Detection-based Approach to Multiview Action Classification in Infants. Proceedings of the International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR), pp. 6112-6119. DOI: 10.1109/ICPR48806.2021.9412822 

      • • Godinez, N., Lopez, S., Mulji, A., Pickle, A., Jayaseelan, P.R., Karydis, K., Kokkoni E. Development and Preliminary Evaluation of a Pneumatic Sitting Postural Device for Infants. American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine (ACRM), October 2020, Virtual. DOI: 10.1016/j.apmr.2020.10.033 

        • Kokkoni, E., Arnold, A., Galloway, J.C., Tanner, H. Assistive Effects of Dynamic Weight Support on Open-area Overground Mobility of Infants With Down Syndrome Over Time: A Report of Two Cases. American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine (ACRM), October 2020, Virtual. DOI: 10.1016/j.apmr.2020.10.015 

        • Agyeman, K., Mattingly, K., Koziar, K., Christopoulos, V., Kokkoni E. Systematic Review of Functional Brain Imaging Techniques in Infant Research: Previous Applications and Future Directions for Assessing Brain Motor Activity. American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine (ACRM), October 2020, Virtual. DOI: 10.1016/j.apmr.2020.10.099 

        • Arnold, A.J., Tasouli-Drakou, V., Galloway, J. C., Tanner, H. G., Kokkoni, E. User and Caregiver Acceptability of a Novel Pediatric Mobility Training Combining Socially Assistive Robots and Body Weight Support Technology. Annual Conference of the North American Society for the Psychology of Sport and Physical Activity (NASPSPA), June 2020, Virtual. DOI: 10.1123/jsep.2020-0172 

        • Arnold, A.J., Mestas, J., Fujimoto, N., Cristobal, J., Galloway, J. C., Tanner, H. G., Kokkoni, E. Combining the Use of Socially Assistive Robots and Body Weight Support Technology to Encourage Infants' Participation in Complex Motor Tasks. Annual Conference of the North American Society for the Psychology of Sport and Physical Activity (NASPSPA), June 2020, Virtual. DOI: 10.1123/jsep.2020-0172 

2019

• Haworth, J., Cooley, D., Kokkoni, E. (2019) Movement History and Skill Level Impact Motor Exploration of Novel Human Machine Interactions: A Preliminary Study. International Society for Biomechanics in Sports (ISBS) Proceedings Archive, 37(1), pp. 403-406. commons.nmu.edu/isbs/vol37/iss1/99/ 

  • • Kokkoni, E., Haworth, J., Cunha, A.B., Galloway, J.C., Rahman, T., Lobo, M.A. Object-oriented Changes in Hand Kinematics and Postural Sway of an Infant Wearing an Arm Exoskeleton. American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine (ACRM), November 2019, Chicago, IL. DOI: 10.1016/j.apmr.2019.10.088 

    • Haworth, J., Abulhasan, A., Moran, V., Steinbuch, N., Kokkoni E. A Systematic Review of Mobility Rehabilitation Technology for Very Young Children. American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine (ACRM), November 2019, Chicago, IL. DOI: 10.1016/j.apmr.2019.08.450 

    • Haworth, J., Tol, A., Kokkoni, E. Arm Swing Dynamics During Walking Over Flat and ADA-Compliant Inclined Surfaces. American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine (ACRM), November 2019, Chicago, IL. DOI: 10.1016/j.apmr.2019.10.015