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Research Interests
My research interests are 1) designing and developing a real-time biofeedback technology to prevent and reduce falls by leveraging fall recovery performance in individuals with a high risk of falling, 2) designing and developing a cell phone based platform for home-based balance rehabilitation and fall prevention applications, 3) designing and developing a wearable sensory augmentation system via vibrotactile biofeedback for conveying motion instructions based on motion error between an expert and a trainee (patient) for potential clinical and home-based balance rehabilitation training applications, and 4) characterizing non-volitional human motor behavior (postural responses) to torso-based vibrotactile stimulation.
Recent Publications and Research Activity
Chihyeong Lee, Jooeun Ahn, and Beom-Chan Lee, 鈥淎 systematic review of the long-term effects of using smartphone- and tablet-based rehabilitation technology for balance and gait training and exercise programs鈥, Bioengineering, Vol. 10, No. 10, pp. 1142, 2023
Beom-Chan Lee, Jongkwan Choi, Jooeun Ahn, and Bernard J. Martin, 鈥淭he different contributions of the eight prefrontal cortex subregions to reactive responses after unpredictable slip perturbations and vibrotactile cueing鈥, Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, Vol. 17, pp. 1-15, 2023
Beom-Chan Lee, Junmo An, Jiyeon Kim, and Eugene C. Lai, 鈥淧erforming dynamic weight-shifting balance exercises with a smartphone-based wearable telerehabilitation system for home use by individuals with Parkinson鈥檚 disease: A proof-of-concept study鈥, IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering, Vol. 31, pp. 456-463, 2023
Dongyual Yoo, Junmo An, Kap-Ho Seo, and Beom-Chan Lee, 鈥淎ging affects lower limb joint moments and muscle responses to a split-belt treadmill perturbation鈥, Frontiers in Sports and Active Living, Vol. 3, pp. 683039, 2021
Beom-Chan Lee, Jongkwan Choi, and Bernard J. Martin, 鈥淩oles of the prefrontal cortex in learning to time the onset of pre-existing motor programs鈥, PLOS ONE, Vol. 15, No. 11, pp. e0241562, 2020
Charles S. Layne, David R. Young, Beom-Chan Lee, Daniel G. Glaze, Aloysia Schwabe, and Bernhard Suter, 鈥淜inematics associated with treadmill walking in Rett syndrome鈥, Disability and Rehabilitation, pp. 1-9, 2019
Stacey L. Gorniak, Haley Ray, Beom-Chan Lee, and Jing Wang, 鈥淐ognitive-motor impairment in manual tasks in adults with type 2 diabetes鈥, Occupation, Participation and Health, pp. 1-9, 2019
Dongyual Yoo, Dae-Hee Kim, Kap-Ho Seo, and *Beom-Chan Lee, 鈥淭he effects of technology-assisted ankle rehabilitation on balance control in stroke survivors鈥, IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering, Vol. 27, No. 9, pp. 1817-1823, 2019
Beom-Chan Lee, Chul-Soo Kim, and Kap-Ho Seo, 鈥淭he body鈥檚 compensatory responses to unpredictable trip and slip perturbations induced by a programmable split-belt treadmill鈥, IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering, Vol. 27, No. 7, pp. 1389-1396, 2019
Dongyual Yoo, Kap-Ho Seo, and Beom-Chan Lee, 鈥淭he effect of the most common gait perturbations on the compensatory limb鈥檚 ankle, knee, and hip moments during the first stepping response鈥, Gait and Posture, Vol. 71, pp. 98-104, 2019
Stacey L. Gorniak, Fangmei Yoshimi Lu, Beom-Chan Lee, Paul J. Massman, and Jing Wang, 鈥淐ognitive impairment and postural control deficits in adults with Type 2 Diabetes鈥, Diabetes-Metabolism Research and Reviews, Vol. 35, No. 2, pp. e3089, 2019
Dongyual Yoo, Younsun Son, Dae-Hee Kim, Kap-Ho Seo, and Beom-Chan Lee, 鈥淭echnology-assisted ankle rehabilitation improves balance and gait performance in stroke survivors: A randomized controlled study with 1-month follow-up鈥, IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering, Vol. 26, No. 12, pp. 1-9, 2018
David R. Young, Beom-Chan Lee, and Charles S. Layne, 鈥淐omparison of martial artists and healthy individuals using treadmill-induced gait perturbation鈥, Neurology and Neuroscience Reports, Vol. 1, No. 2, pp. 1-4, 2018
Charles S. Layne, Beom-Chan Lee, David R. Young, Daniel G. Glaze, and Bernhard Suter, 鈥淭emporal gait measures associated with overground and treadmill walking in Rett syndrome鈥, Journal of Child Neurology, Vol. 33, No. 10, pp. 667-674, 2018
Alberto Fung, Eugene C. Lai, and Beom-Chan Lee, 鈥淯sability and validation of the Smarter Balance System: An unsupervised dynamic balance exercises system for individuals with Parkinson鈥檚 disease鈥, IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering, Vol. 26, No. 4, pp. 798-806, 2018
Beom-Chan Lee, Alberto Fung, and Timothy A. Thrasher, 鈥淭he effects of coding schemes on vibrotactile biofeedback for dynamic balance training in Parkinson鈥檚 Disease and healthy elderly individuals鈥, IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering, Vol. 26, No. 1, pp. 153-160, 2018
Charles S. Layne, Beom-Chan Lee, David R. Young, Aryn Knight, Daniel G. Glaze, and Bernhard Suter, 鈥淢ethodologies to objectively assess gait and postural control features in Rett syndrome - With a comment on specific challenges and how to address them鈥, Rare Diseases and Orphan Drugs, Vol. 4, No. 1, pp. 1-7, 2017
Beom-Chan Lee, Bernard J. Martin, Timothy A. Thrasher, and Charles S. Layne, 鈥淭he effect of vibrotactile cuing on recovery strategies from a treadmill-induced trip鈥, IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering, Vol. 25, No. 3, pp. 235-243, 2017
Hao Meng, Daniel P. O鈥機onnor, Beom-Chan Lee, Charles S. Layne, and Stacey L. Gorniak, 鈥淎lterations in over-ground walking patterns in obese and overweight adults鈥, Gait and Posture, Vol. 53, pp. 145-150, 2017
Rakshatha Kabbaligere, Beom-Chan Lee, and Charles S. Layne, 鈥淏alancing sensory inputs: Sensory reweighting of ankle proprioception and vision during a bipedal posture task鈥, Gait and Posture, Vol. 52, pp. 244-250, 2017
Beom-Chan Lee, Timothy A. Thrasher, Charles S. Layne, and Bernard J. Martin, 鈥淰ibrotactile cuing revisited to reveal a possible challenge to sensorimotor adaptation鈥, Experimental Brain Research, Vol. 234, No. 12, pp. 3523-3530, 2016
Recep Ali Ozdemir, Jose L. Contreras-Vidal, Beom-Chan Lee, and William H. Paloski, 鈥淐ortical activity modulations underlying age related performance differences during posture-cognition dual tasking conditions鈥, Experimental Brain Research, Vol. 234, No. 11, pp. 3321-3334, 2016
David R. Temple, Beom-Chan Lee, and Charles S. Layne, 鈥淓ffects of tibialis anterior vibration on postural control when exposed to support surface translations鈥, Somatosensory and Motor Research, Vol. 33, No. 1, pp. 42-48, 2016
Marius Dettmer, Amir Pourmoghaddam, Beom-Chan Lee, and Charles S. Layne, 鈥淒o aging and tactile noise stimulation affect responses to support surface translations in healthy adults?鈥, Current Gerontology and Geriatrics Research, Vol. 2016, No. 2941964, 9 pages, 2016
Marius Dettmer, Amir Pourmoghaddam, Beom-Chan Lee, and Charles S. Layne, 鈥淎ssociations between tactile sensory threshold and postural performance and effects of healthy aging and subthreshold vibrotactile stimulation on postural outcomes in a simple dual task鈥, Current Gerontology and Geriatrics Research, Vol. 2016, No. 9797369, 11 pages, 2016
Hao Meng, Daniel P. O鈥機onnor, Beom-Chan Lee, Charles S. Layne, and Stacey L. Gorniak, 鈥淓ffects of adiposity on postural control and cognition鈥, Gait and Posture, Vol. 43, pp. 31-37, 2016
Beom-Chan Lee, Timothy A. Thrasher, Stanley P. Fisher, and Charles S. Layne, 鈥淭he effects of different sensory augmentation on weight-shifting balance exercises in Parkinson鈥檚 disease and healthy elderly people: A proof-of-concept study鈥, Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation, Vol. 12, No. 75, 2015
Marius Dettmer, Amir Pourmoghaddam, Beom-Chan Lee, and Charles S. Layne, 鈥淓ffects of aging and tactile stochastic resonance stimulation on postural performance and postural control of younger and older adults in a sensory conflict task鈥, Somatosensory and Motor Research, Vol. 32, No. 2, pp. 128-135, 2015
Bernard J. Martin, Beom-Chan Lee, and Kathleen H. Sienko, 鈥淎 cutaneous positioning system鈥, Experimental Brain Research, Vol. 233, No. 4, pp. 1237-1245, 2015
Beom-Chan Lee, Bernard J. Martin, Allison Ho, and Kathleen H. Sienko, 鈥淧ostural reorganization induced by torso cutaneous covibration鈥, Journal of Neuroscience, Vol. 33, No. 18, pp. 7870-7876, 2013
Beom-Chan Lee, Bernard J. Martin, and Kathleen H. Sienko, 鈥淭he effects of actuator selection on non-volitional postural responses to torso-based vibrotactile stimulation鈥, Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation, Vol. 10, No. 21, 2013
Beom-Chan Lee, Bernard J. Martin, and Kathleen H. Sienko, 鈥淒irectional postural responses induced by vibrotactile stimulations applied to the torso鈥, Experimental Brain Research, Vol. 222, No. 4, pp. 471-482, 2012
Beom-Chan Lee, Jeonghee Kim, Shu Chen, and Kathleen H. Sienko, 鈥淐ell phone based balance trainer鈥, Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation, Vol. 9, No. 10, 2012
Beom-Chan Lee, Shu Chen, and Kathleen H. Sienko, 鈥淎 wearable device for real-time motion error detection and vibrotactile instructional cuing鈥, IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering, Vol. 19, No. 4, pp. 374-381, 2011
Beom-Chan Lee, Kelli Bechly, and Kathleen H. Sienko, 鈥淐ell phone based vibrotactile feedback system for home-based vestibular rehabilitation balance training鈥, Journal of Vestibular Research, Vol. 20, No. 3-4, pp. 234-235, 2010
Sun-Uk Hwang, Beom-Chan Lee, Jeha Ryu, Kwan Heng Lee, and Yong-Gu Lee, 鈥淎daptive haptic rendering for time-varying haptic and video frame rates in multi-modal interactions鈥, Journal of Computer Animation and Virtual World, Vol. 21, No. 1, pp. 25-38, 2010
Beom-Chan Lee and Kathleen H. Sienko, 鈥淲ireless Mimic Device for Rehabilitation and Training Applications鈥, Journal of Medical Devices, Vol. 3, No. 2, 027526, 2009
Vivek Vishwas Vichare, Beom-Chan Lee, Wendy Carender, Annamarie Asher, and Kathleen H. Sienko, 鈥淰ibrotactile Balance Rehabilitation Gait Assist Device鈥, Journal of Medical Devices, Vol. 3, No. 2, 027509, 2009
Jong-Phil Kim, Beom-Chan Lee, Hyungon Kim, Jaeha Kim, and Jeha Ryu, 鈥淎ccurate and Efficient CPU/GPUBased 3-DOF Haptic Rendering of Complex Static Virtual Environments鈥, Presence-Teleoperators and Virtual Environments, Vol. 18, No. 5, pp. 340-360, 2009
Jong-Phil Kim, Beom-Chan Lee, and Jeha Ryu, 鈥淩eal-time Haptic Visualization of Printed Materials鈥, Journal of Computational Information System, Vol. 2, pp. 81-87, 2006
Jong-Phil Kim, Jeung-Chul Park, Beom-Chan Lee, Kwan H. Lee, Jeha Ryu, 鈥淒igital Buddhist Image Creation by Haptic Deformation鈥, Edutainment 2006, pp. 989-998, 2006
Active Research Funding
Beom-Chan Lee (PI as an invited scientist) and Jooeun Ahn (PI at a host institution), 鈥淒etection and prevention of fall using an advanced fall inducing system鈥, Brain Pool Program (PB), National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF), Host institution: Seoul National University, December 2022-December 2023
Completed Research Funding
Beom-Chan Lee (色花堂 PI), Bijan Najafi (BCM PI), Junmo An (色花堂 Co-I), Sarvari Yellapragada (BCM Co-I), and Amir Sharfkhaneh (BCM Co-I), 鈥淭ele-exergame: Remotely-supervised game-based exercise platform for improving cognition and motor function in adult cancer survivors using telemedicine鈥, 色花堂/Baylor College of Medicine Collaborative Pilot Grants, July 2020-December 2021
Beom-Chan Lee (PI) and Monthaporn S. Bryant, 鈥淪ystematic evaluations of a new smartphone-based wearable telerehabilitation system for use by people with Parkinson鈥檚 disease鈥, NIH Exploratory/Developmental Research Grant Award (R21), National Institutes of Health (NIH)/National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), August 2019-July 2021
Beom-Chan Lee (PI), 鈥淣ew brain signal processing algorithms for brain-to-vehicle interfaces: assessing cognitive loads鈥, E-Mobility R&D Center Research Grant, Korea Automotive Technology Institute (KATECH), August 2019-March 2020
Beom-Chan Lee (Subcontract PI) and Yoonjung Park (Subcontract Co-I), 鈥淒eveloping and assessing wearable technologies to predict and prevent falls鈥, ICT R&D program of Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning (MSIP)/Institute for Information and Communications Technology Promotion (IITP), Ministry of Science and ICT (MSIT); 色花堂 subcontract with Korea Institute of Robot and Convergence (KIRO), June 2017-December 2020
Beom-Chan Lee (PI), 鈥淰alidation of smartphone-based sensory augmentation technology for home-based balance training of people with Parkinson鈥檚 disease鈥, American Parkinson鈥檚 Disease Association (APDA), September 2017-August 2018 (Competitive renewal)
Beom-Chan Lee (PI), 鈥淎 novel ankle rehabilitation system for facilitating recovery of stroke patients鈥, Research Progress Grant, College of Liberal Arts and Social Science, 色花堂, March 2017-Febuary 2018
Beom-Chan Lee (PI), 鈥淒evelopment of accurate and reliable algorithms for evaluating Parkinsonian tremor鈥, Michael E. DeBakey Veterans Affairs Medical Center (MEDVAMC), June 2016-September 2017
Beom-Chan Lee (Co-I and Subcontract PI), Monthaporn S. Bryant (PI), George R. Jackson (Co-I), Fariha Zaheer (Co-I), and Charles G. Minard (Co-I), 鈥淓ffect of resistance exercise on tremor and hand dexterity in Parkinson鈥檚 disease鈥, Veterans Administration (I21), National Institutes of Health (NIH)/U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA); 色花堂 subcontract with Michael E. DeBakey Veterans Affairs Medical Center (MEDVAMC), October 2015-September 2017
Beom-Chan Lee (PI), 鈥淰alidation of smartphone-based sensory augmentation technology for home-based balance training of people with Parkinson鈥檚 disease鈥, American Parkinson鈥檚 Disease Association (APDA), September 2016-August 2017
Beom-Chan Lee (PI), 鈥淭he effects of exercise training combined with assistive technologies on spasticity, balance, and gait in individuals with post-stroke hemiparesis鈥, Korea Institute of Robot and Convergence (KIRO), September 2016-August 2017
Beom-Chan Lee (PI), 鈥淭he effects of smartphone-based biofeedback for home-based balance training in Parkinson鈥檚 disease鈥, Research Progress Grant, College of Liberal Arts and Social Science, 色花堂, March 2016-Febuary 2017
Beom-Chan Lee (Co-I), Michael Cottingham (PI), and Don Lee (Co-I), 鈥淒evelopment of measures for classification system for athletes with disabilities鈥, Research Progress Grant, College of Liberal Arts and Social Science, 色花堂, March 2016-Febuary 2017
Education
B.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering at Kangwon National University, Rep. of Korea, 2004
M.S. in Mechatronics at Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology, Rep. of Korea, 2006
Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering at University of Michigan, Michigan, USA, 2012
Post-doc in Mechanical Engineering at University of Michigan, Michigan, USA, 2012