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Successful development of technology--and training of technology innovators and researchers--is challenging and inherently interdisciplinary. This is especially true when designing for user populations that are younger, older, or are living with impairments and disabilities.

Computer vision systems can play an important role in providing care to individuals living with physical or cognitive disability. This talk will provide an overview of several vision-based systems under development for such purpose. Examples include ambient monitoring of pain in older adults with dementia and ambient monitoring of fall risk in older adults residing in long-term care facilities.

As a society we have reached an inflection point where disparities in technology adoption rate by age group, amid the pandemic, and technological innovations are altering the landscape of the healthcare, creating both opportunities and challenges for improving healthy aging. Today, a person can expect to live an average of 22 years longer than people who were alive 70 years ago. There is evidence of the accelerated diffusion of technologies; however, data show consistent disparities in adoption rates.

The Conrad School is hosting a Speaker Series to celebrate Women Entrepreneurship Week 2021 with Montclair University and other institutions around the globe. Celebrate with us!

Presenter 
Rongbing Xu, Master's student, Department of Systems Design Engineering 

Presented by: Baoshi Sun, MASc student, Systems Design Engineering 

Abstract: As one of the most essential factors of learning environment, lighting in classroom has been found to have significant impact on student performance. Moreover, brightness level and correlated color temperature (CCT) are the two key luminous properties that have been examined in many relevant studies. And researchers were increasingly focusing on the diversity of luminous requirements under different learning context.

Speakers

• Dr. David Price, MD
  Professor and Past Chair, Department of Family Medicine, McMaster University

• Dr. William Orovan, MBA, MD
  Professor, Urology and Urological Oncology, McMaster University; Associate Dean, Clinical Services - Faculty of Health Sciences, McMaster Medical School

Research seminar 

Small scale robots have the potential to offer many unique applications for minimally invasive surgery, sensing and drug delivery in healthcare as well as more generally for microfactories and as scientific tools. They are precise end-effectors that can manipulate objects with a high degree of accuracy. Many surgical and on-chip tasks can be performed by manipulating these robots in their dedicated environments.

Research seminar 

Modern surgical procedures require delicate tissue interactions and thus benefit greatly from the precise manipulations offered by medical robots. Similarly, live 3D imaging modalities (e.g., optical coherence tomography [OCT], ultrasound) offer rich clinical data streams useful for guiding surgical instruments.

Research seminar

Autonomously moving microrobots that can be controlled remotely have enormous potential for innovative biomedical applications such as non-invasive surgery, drug delivery or cell manipulation.  This talk will present different approaches to the development of such wireless microrobots, ranging from biohybrid to bioinspired systems. Biohybrid and biomimetic approaches are very attractive because they exploit the naturally optimized designs and propulsion sources of biological swimmers.