Our Funding and Research

Our multi-site app research and development was funded the National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research (NIDILRR). NIDILRR is part of the Administration for Community Living (ACL).

Our Apps are Backed by Research

This project was supported, in part by grant number 90IF0083 and 0DPGE0016, from the U.S. Administration for Community Living, Department of Health and Human Services, Washington, D.C. 20201. 

Selected Publications

  1. Burns, S. P., Mendonca, R., Pickens, N. D. (2023). Home modifications. In B. B. Schell & J. Schell (Eds.), Clinical and Professional Reasoning in Occupational Therapy (3e).  
  2. Mendonca, R. J., Burns, S. P., Schwartz, J. K., & Smith, R. O. on behalf of AOTA. (2022). AOTA Official Document. “Inclusive and accessible environments: Home, work, public spaces, technology, and specialty living environments within occupational therapy practice.” American Journal of Occupational Therapy, 76(3), 7613410200.
  3. Burns, S. P., Mendonca, R. J., Pickens, N. D., Smith, R. O. (2021). America’s housing crisis: Perpetuating disparities among people with disability. Disability & Society, 36(10), 1719-1724. 
  4. Burns, S. P., Pickens, N. D., & Smith, R. O. (2017). Interprofessional client-centered reasoning processes in home modification practice. Journal of Housing for the Elderly, 31(3), 213-228. 
  5. Burns, S.P., & Pickens, N.D. (2016). Embedding technology into inter-professional best practices in home safety evaluation. Disability and Rehabilitation: Assistive Technology, 12(6), 585-591. 
  6. Pickens, N. D. & Burns, S. P. (2017). Home modifications. In B. B. Schell & J. Schell (Eds.), Clinical and Professional Reasoning in Occupational Therapy (2 ed., pp. 303-318). Philadelphia, PA: Wolters Kluwer. 
  7. Mendonca, R., Pickens, N., & Smith, R. O. (2017). In J. B. Scott & S. M. Reitz (Eds.), Practical Applications for the Occupational Therapy Code of Ethics (pp. 283-294). AOTA Press. 
  8. O’Donnell, L., Primrose, K., MacKinen, A., Mendonca, R., Burns, S.P., Pickens, D., Smith, R. O., Annual Conference, “Field scan of home evaluation apps to inform next generation app design,” Rehabilitation Engineering Society of North America (RESNA), Virtual. (July 2022).  
  9. Mendonca, R., Burns, S. P., Pickens, N. D., & Smith, R. O. (2019).  Mobile health for complex decision making. Rehabilitation Engineering and Assistive Technology Society of North America (RESNA) Annual Conference.   
  10.  Mendonca, R. J., Burns, S. P., Pickens, N. D., & Smith, R. O. (2018).  HESTIA – a home evaluation app: Usability analysis. Rehabilitation Engineering and Assistive Technology Society of North America (RESNA) Annual Conference.    
  11.  Burns, S. P., Smith, R. O., Mendonca, R., & Pickens, N. D. (2017).  Integrating a participatory design approach: Developing HESTIA with multidisciplinary perspectives. Rehabilitation Engineering and Assistive Technology Society of North America (RESNA) Annual Conference.    

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