Posts Tagged ‘Wearable’

Shimmer Research was at the Westin Copley Hotel in Boston this year for IEEE EMBC 2011. The event, which took place Tuesday 30^th of August through Saturday 3^rd of September was a roaring success and was full of exciting key notes and workshop demonstrations.

On Wednesday Shimmer hosted its own workshop in the Marriott Hotel inviting all attendees to come and see a full demonstration of the Shimmer platform and to ask any questions they may have. Presenting to a full house the workshop proved to be a very informative session for those in attendance and it gave users and prospective users alike an insight into Shimmer’s full suite of capabilities.

Shimmer team members were available to take questions as were Shimmer commercial partners Biosensics who gave a brief introduction into their Shimmer based PAMSys for activity monitoring and classification.

Alongside the main EMBC 2011 event, the organisers also hosted the first EMBC UnConference. Aimed at bringing people together in an innovative and unique atmosphere, the UnConference focused on the key challenges in the translation of technology from the lab to the field around wearable and ubiquitous technology for health and wellness.

The consensus from the full compliment of attendees was that the UnConference delivered on its promise, and is certainly a format and an event we would love to see again in the future. Shimmer Research was delighted to be involved by sponsoring the UnConference’s Wearable Technology Demo Competition, which attracted some excellent and engaging entries. We would like to extend congratulations all the entrants and to the eventual winners:

‘MusicGlove: A Music-Based Device for Hand Rehabilitation and Quantitative Assessment of Hand Function’ – Friedman, Nizan

‘The SWORD ambulatory rehabilitation system’ – Bento, Virg

The complete list of submitted abstracts can be found by clicking the following link.

Thanks again to all the attendees who dropped by our stand and we hope to see you all again soon.

Kieran Daly, VP of Business Development at Shimmer Research was recently interviewed by John Kennedy of Digital 21 in relation to the importance of PhD graduates in developing R+D projects, innovation, and real business opportunities.

Commenting on Shimmer Research’s sustained commitment to wireless sensing innovation, Kieran Daly describes current collaboration being conducted in the area of integrating wireless sensors into garments, and the importance of IRCSET’s enterprise partnership scheme to the project.

You can view the full article on Digital 21’s website, along with a video clip with Kieran Daly being interview in the websites video section titled: ‘Digital-21-IRCSET’. Kieran is interviewed on the 1:10 mark.