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Wheelchair Pressure Sensor patent awarded
December 25, 2007: United States Patent# 7311675 was awarded for "Systems and methods for mobile activity monitoring." The patent covers the wheelchair weight shift training system resulting from collaboration between GT and the Shepherd Center. This invention helps individuals in wheelchairs avoid deadly pressure sores by teaching them how and when to perform weight shift exercises..
Weight-shift activity is measured by small, flat, low-cost pressure sensors placed under the cushion in the seat of the wheelchair. A wireless communications device such as a Blackberry™ page processes data received from the pressure sensors and transfers the electronic records to a central database periodically or in near real-time. The information about activity and weight shift exercises is stored at the central database where it may be accessed and viewed by Internet users. Historical records of an individual's activity may be presented to the individual and authorized caregivers through secure web pages. This activity information will encourage the wheelchair user to perform regular weight shift exercises and will allow caregivers to intervene when high-risk periods of inactivity are detected.
Inventors
Georgia Tech
- Peifer, John W. (Atlanta, GA, US)
- Wilson, Jeff (Atlanta, GA, US)
- Andreasen, Dinal (Marietta, GA, US)
- Presti, Peter (Duluth, GA, US)
- Plesh, Adam (Park Ridge, IL, US)
Shepherd Center
- Jones, Michael L. (Marietta, GA, US)
- Anschutz, John (Conyers, GA, US)
Others
- Grogg, Kevin (Atlanta, GA, US)
Tutorial: Wearable Computing for Persons with Disabilities
IMTC researcher, Maribeth Gandy, will present a tutorial on Wearable Computing for individuals with disabilities on the afternoon of October 14 at the ISWC 2006 conference in Montreaux, Switzerland. Ed Price quoted in The Huntsville Times
Read The Huntsville Times article on IPTV
Book Announcement - December 8, 2006
Maribeth Gandy, Research Scientist II, contributed the chapter entitled "Supporting Early Design Activities for AR Experiences," to the recently published, "Emerging Technologies of Augmented Reality" book. Available for purchase at Amazon.com.
John Peifer Retires
After 30 years of service to the Georgia Tech community, John Peifer, Research Director of the Biomedical Interactive Technology Center, has retired. We wish John all the best in his efforts with Intelehealth, a new company focusing on affordable remote health monitoring solutions, and hope to continue to work with him in his new position (September, 2006).
VideoNOW - 11Alive, Atlanta
VideoNOW, a video search utility now available on Atlanta's 11Alive TV website, is powered by Nexidia. Nexidia has continued to develop the technology since its beginnings as a research project undertaken between IMTC, the Center for Signal Processing and the Georgia Tech Library to provide a searchable archive of the audio and video collection of former Georgia Senator Sam Nunn. (October, 2006).
SWAN project featured in engadget
The SWAN project, in which IMTC/BITC researcher, Jeff Wilson, has been involved, was featured in an article on engadget. (August, 2006)
RESNA 2006 - June 24, 2006
As part of their work with the Wireless RERC, Ed Price and John Peifer presented a workshop, "Using Mobile Wireless Technology in Rehabilitation and Community Re-integration - Critical Considerations," at RESNA 2006 in Atlanta, GA - June 24 from 10:15AM - 11:30AM.
GAMG 2006 - January 19, 2006
Brian Jones presented Computer Special Effects at the Georgia Association for Museums and Galleries. The presentation focused on what questions you should ask, a review of technologies, and other considerations when adding or updating interactive media technologies in your exhibits. .
ISMAR 2005
- October 4-6, 2005
IMTC researcher, Maribeth Gandy traveled to
Vienna, Austria for ISMAR 2005. As part of the Workshop on Industrial
Augmented Reality at ISMAR
2005, Gandy presented The DART Project:
Building Real Tools for Real People (Maribeth
Gandy and Blair MacIntyre, Georgia Institute of Technology)
On October 6, 2005, Gandy presented AR
Karaoke: Acting in Your Favorite Scenes (Maribeth Gandy, Blair
MacIntyre, Peter Presti, Steven Dow, Jay Bolter, Brandon Yarbrough,
Nigel O’Rear, Georgia Tech).
ISWC 2005 - October 8, 2005
IMTC researcher, Maribeth Gandy presented a tutorial on Wearable
Computing for People with Disabilities at the ISWC 2005 in Osaka,
Japan. This tutorial was related to Gandy's work with the Wireless
RERC.
SIGGRAPH 2005 -August
3, 2005
Maribeth Gandy (IMTC/AEL),
Blair McIntyre (AEL),
Steven Dow(AEL), and Jay Bolter(LCC)
presented the UIST 2004 paper, DART:
A Toolkit for Rapid Design Exploration of Augmented Reality Experiences,
at the UIST/I3D reprise session at SIGGRAPH 2005
in Los Angeles, August 3, 2005. The paper was chosen as one of
the best papers of UIST 2004 and is related to the ongoing research
on the Director Augmented
Reality Toolkit (DART).
Also at SIGGRAPH, the DART team presented a poster titled: A
Sketch Interface to Support Storyboarding of Augmented Reality
Experiences, in addition to hosting a “Birds-of-a-Feather” session
on the Designer’s Augmented Reality Toolkit (DART) on Thursday,
August 4, 2005.
HCII 2005 - July 27, 2005
Maribeth Gandy presented
a paper entitled, The Design of a Performance Simulation System
for Virtual Reality at the Human Computer Interaction International
(HCII 2005) conference
in Las Vegas. The paper discusses the design of a Performance
Simulation System developed for the Virtual
Vaudeville Project.
RESNA 2005
- June 25-27, 2005
IMTC and BITC participated in the RESNA
2005 conference, June 25-27, 2005 at the Hyatt Regency in
downtown Atlanta. As part of IMTC's involvement in the Wireless
RERC, John Peifer and Ed Price participated in a workshop
entitled Using Mobile Wireless Technology in Rehabilitation
and Community Re-integration - Critical Considerations.
In addition, IMTC helped man the Wireless RERC booth, where the
Mobile Accessibility Guide (MAG -
a BITC/IMTC proof of concept) were demonstrated.
December 8-9, 2004
IMTC demonstrated the CharmBadge system
at the USIPv6 Summit in Reston, Virginia for Charmed Technology.
October 3, 2004
IMTC, in collaboration with Blair MacIntyre’s Augmented
Environments Lab and Jay Bolter from School of Literature Communication
and Culture, presented a demonstration of an audio Augmented
Reality tour guide built
with DART (Director Augmented Reality
Toolkit) at the Oakland
Cemetery Sunday in the Park event (October 3, 2004 from noon-4:00 pm). the
event is free and open to the public.
October 14, 2004
Maribeth Gandy, Blair MacIntyre (GVU - Augmented Environments
Laboratory) and Jay David Bolter (School of Literature, Communication,
and Culture) presented a paper at Presence
2004, entitled Presence and the Aura of Meaningful Places.
October 27, 2004
Blair MacIntyre, Maribeth Gandy, Steven Dow, and Jay David
Bolter presented a paper at UIST
2004 (Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology),
entitled DART: A Toolkit for Rapid Design Exploration of Augmented
Reality Experiences.
October 31, 2004
As part of her commitment to the Wireless
Rehabilitation Engineering Research Center (Wireless RERC),
Maribeth Gandy taught a half day tutorial on Wearable
Computing for People with Disabilities at ISWC
2004 (International Symposium on Wearable Computers).
November 3-4, 2004
Maribeth Gandy presented a poster and demonstration at ISMAR
2004 (International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality), titled Making
Tracking Technology Accessible in a Rapid Prototyping Environment. Other
contributors: Blair MacIntyre, Steven Dow
August 7, 2004
Ed Price spoke at the 2004 meeting of the Society
of American Archivists in Boston, Massachusetts on August
7th about the Moving
Image Collections Project.
June 14 - 17, 2004
Maribeth Gandy, Brian Jones, Peter Presti and Scott Robertson successfully
debuted the CharmBadge System at the North American
IPv6 Summit 2004 in Santa Monica on behalf of Charmed
Technologies, Inc. IMTC is currently
developing the CharmBadge hardware, interfacing software, and
attendee information website.
May
11-12, 2004
The Wireless RERC hosted the State of Technology Conference (SOT)
on Mobile Wireless Technologies for Persons with Disabilities
in Atlanta, Georgia. As part of IMTC's involvement in the Wireless
RERC, members of IMTC moderated panels, facilitated roundtables
and helped with the conference planning. In addition, IMTC designed
the printed materials and accessible website for the
conference and photographed all sessions for the SOT archive.
[ visit
the State of Technology Conference website ]
April 1, 2004
IMTC participated in the Klaus
Advanced Computing Building Groundbreaking.
IMTC developed an augemented reality interaction allowing Christopher
Klaus to virtually place the new building into a campus map,
triggering a fly-thru animation of the future building. In addition,
IMTC produced a short video introduction and inserted the virtual
building into real-life photographs.
March 25, 2004
IMTC demonstrated the Four
Angry Men project and the Virtual
Vaudeville project, while IMTC member center Biomedical Interactive
Technology Center (BITC) demonstrated the System
for Wearable Audio Navigation (SWAN) at the GVU
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