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Ahmed Malik and Jing Wei are winners of the RESNA Student Scientific Paper Competition! Ahmed's paper on "Detection of Ballistocardiogram-based Heartrate for Different Activities Captured Using a Prototype Portable Seat Cushion" won first place and Jing's "Exploring the Role of Wrist Temperature in Sleep Monitoring: Findings from Case Studies" was a runner-up.

ITWIL's Ahmed Malik and Surya Neti won second and third place respectively at this year’s 3 Minute Thesis competition in Systems Design Engineering! Congratulations to everyone in the lab who participated – everyone delivered an excellent presentations of the great  work they are doing.  

ITWIL's Karan Shastri is the recipient of the AGE-WELL ACCESS award. He used the funds to attend the  conference in Seattle, WA.

On the coldest day of the year (so far!), 14 ITWIL members made the trip to the annual Research Day for the Toronto Rehabilitation Institute (TRI).

Mahzar Eisapour is the winner of the Best Student Paper award at HFES2018 for her paper "Virtual Reality Exergames for People Living with Dementia Based on Exercise Therapy Best Practices". Congratulations Ma

Dr. Boger was honoured to be a panel member of Science North's "Artificial Intelligence: Not just for robots anymore" Science Cafe.

ITWIL was proud to attend and present our research ( hosted by the Human Factors Interest Group at the University of Toronto. IUW brings together human factors researchers from three well-established academic institutions (UofT, UWaterloo, UBuffalo) and beyond to engage in a day of sharing research.  

Jing Wei just presented her work on "What Wrist Temperature Tells Us When We Sleep Late: A New Perspective of Sleep Health" at the 15th IEEE International Conference on Ubiquitous

ITWIL was proud to take part in the first annual in-person meeting of the MCI@work consortium, which was held Sept 25-28 in Stockholm, Sweden. The More Years Better Lives JPI funded project is a joint collaboration between Swedish, Finnish, and Canadian researchers and partners. Read more about the project...
 

We're delighted that two of ITWIL's projects are featured in the Research Institute for Aging's annual report, including our work in VR exergames for people living with dementia as the cover story.