Credit: Reza Rizvi, Yue Li, and Sharon Ravindran/ Toronto Rehabilitation Institute
The team is testing the composite material with winter shoes by asking volunteers wearing the shoes to walk up and down an ice-covered inclined floor. The inclined floor is part of WinterLab, shown on the left, which is a self-contained tiltable room that is part of the Challenging Environment Assessment Lab at the Toronto Rehabilitation Institute.