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Jaimie Borisoff

Adjunct Professor
Academic Appointment
Adjunct Professor
Research Focus
Spinal Cord Injury
Degrees / Designations

B.A.Sc., PhD

Contact Info
commons.bcit.ca/redlab/
jaimie_borisoff@bcit.ca
borisoff
https://ca.linkedin.com/in/jaimie-borisoff-0086774

Biography

Dr. Jaimie Borisoff is a principal investigator at the International Collaboration On Repair Discoveries (ICORD) and the Canadian Research Chair in Rehabilitation Engineering Design at the British Columbia Institute of Technology (BCIT). He is also an adjunct professor in the Department of Occupational Science and Occupational Therapy at the University of British Columbia. 

Dr. Borisoff focuses his research on older adults and how technology development can improve the lives of people with spinal cord injury and other disabilities. One focus of his work is on expanding these peoples' ability to participate more fully in all aspects of society, including outdoor natural environments. This work includes the development of the Elevation™ wheelchair with "on the fly" seating adjustability, and the SWIVL™ "stow and roll" front wheel attachment to manual wheelchairs. His work also focusses on adaptive exercise, which includes the development of the "aROW" and "aSKI" rowing machines and the AAPLEwalk™—a novel supported-walking exercise machine for people with mobility impairments. Rehabilitation engineering design looks at gaps in quality of life and how people use devices in real life and, from these observations, designs better technology. In the long term, Dr. Borisoff wants to continue to commercialize his lab's work in order to increase the market solutions that can improve the lives of people with disabilities or mobility impairments due to aging. 

News and Awards

Moved by the science: Novel exercise machine moves lower limbs and gets the heart pumping

Sep 15, 2021

Take it from one who knows—peers help people in wheelchairs get moving

Jul 2, 2019

Publications

  • Disability and rehabilitation. Assistive technology -

    Perception of autonomy among people who use wheeled mobility assistive devices: dependence on environment and contextual factors.

    Khalili M, Jonathan C, Hocking N, Van der Loos M, Mortenson WB, Borisoff J
  • Assistive technology : the official journal of RESNA -

    Perception of autonomy among people who use wheeled mobility assistive devices: dependence on the type of wheeled assistive technology.

    Khalili M, Jonathan C, Hocking N, Van Der Loos M, Mortenson B, Borisoff JF
  • Disability and rehabilitation. Assistive technology -

    Perceptions of power-assist devices: interviews with manual wheelchair users.

    Khalili M, Eugenio A, Wood A, Van der Loos M, Mortenson WB, Borisoff J
  • Disability and rehabilitation. Assistive technology -

    Exploring the lived experience of people using ultralight wheelchairs with on-the-fly adjustable seating function.

    Mattie J, Aitken-Mundhenk L, Bicknell L, Mortenson WB, Borisoff J
  • Journal of neuroengineering and rehabilitation -

    Manual wheelchair downhill stability: an analysis of factors affecting tip probability.

    Thomas L, Borisoff J, Sparrey CJ
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