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Sophie Heins is a leading researcher at the intersection of rehabilitation robotics and serious gaming, focused on transforming motor and cognitive recovery for patients with neurological conditions. Her work centers on developing adaptive, robot-assisted serious games that personalize therapy for stroke survivors and children with cerebral palsy. Heins’s major contribution is the creation of the ROBiGAME platform, which integrates robotic devices with dynamic game environments that adjust difficulty, assistance, and resistance based on real-time patient assessment. Her most-cited paper (2017, 36 citations) demonstrates how this system can simultaneously address motor and cognitive impairments post-stroke, while subsequent studies (2019, 13 and 9 citations) validate its effectiveness for upper limb assessment in both adults and children. Heins’s research has been pivotal in showing that engaging, game-based robotic therapy can intensify rehabilitation, improve patient motivation, and yield measurable functional gains. Her work bridges engineering and clinical practice, offering scalable, data-driven tools that promise to make neurorehabilitation more accessible and effective.