TECHNOLOGY SEMINAR PROGRAMME
08.30 – 09.00 Registration and Breakfast
MORNING PROGRAMME
09.00 Welcome
09.05 Introduction to the Day
Chairman, Prof. Morten Kyng, Centre for Pervasive Computing
09.10 UK Strategy for IT in Healthcare
Mr. Murray Bywater, Mgt. Dir. Silicon Bridge Research
09.40 Novel biosensors
Dr. Danny O’Hare, Biosensor Research Laboratory, Imperial College
10.10 Novel neuro / myo electric interfaces & devices
Assoc. Prof. Nico Rijkhoff, Aalborg University
10.40 Coffee break
11.00 Bio-Inspired Chemical Electronics: A Methodology for Ultra-Low Power Sensor Processing
Prof. Chris Toumazou, Director, Institute of Biomedical Engineering, Imperial College London
11.30 UbiSense – Ubiquitous IR Sensing and Behaviour Profiling for the Care of Elderly and Chronically-ill Patients; Ubimon – Progress and demonstrators
Mr. Benny Lo, Department of Computing, Imperial College London
12.15 Lunch
AFTERNOON PROGRAMME
13.15 An Ultra-Low Power 1v Wireless Transceiver Suitable for Body Sensor Networks.
Mr. Keith Errey, CEO, Toumaz Technology Ltd.
13.45 Care2Wear company presentation
Dr. Peter Søby Nielsen, CEO, Care2Wear A/S
14.15 Care in the Community
Dr. David Heatley, British Telecom
14.45 Pervasive healthcare in the home
Mr. Michael Holm, CEO Systematic Software Corp.
15.15 Coffee Break
15.35 Accessibility for Older People
Dr. Nick Hine, Dundee University
16.05 Activity Based Computing
Assoc. Prof. Jakob E. Bardram, Mgr. Centre for Pervasive Healthcare
16.35 Status for EPR in UK
Mr. Murray Bywater, Mgt. Dir. Silicon Bridge Research
17.05 Closing Statement
Chairman
17.15 Drinks and Networking
18.00 Close.
Please note: by invitation only
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Science & Innovation Officer,
British Embassy, Copenhagen
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BRIEF DETAILS OF VISITING BRITISH SCIENTISTS
Professor Christofer Toumazou Director of the Institute of Biomedical Engineering, Imperial College London
Professor Toumazou has made outstanding contributions to the fields of low power analogue circuit design and current mode circuits and systems for radio frequency and biomedical applications. He has published over 320 research papers in the field of RF and low power electronics.
Dr Danny O’Hare, Department of Bioengineering, Imperial College London
He holds a PhD from Physiological Flow Studies Group (PFSG), Imperial College. Dr. O’Hare is a Chartered Chemist and member of the Royal Society of Chemistry, the Electrochemical Society and British Society for Matrix Biology. He is a Member of the Advisory Board for Analytical Abstracts (Royal Society of Chemistry).
Dr. Nick Hine, Lecturer, University of Dundee
He is Lecturer in Applied Computing in the Queen Mother Research Centre and in Applied Computing at Dundee. His research interests focus on the use of technology to promote dialogue within society, augmentative and alternative communication, educational technology, the use of technology to promote and extend independent living, and work on cross-cultural collaborative education.
Mr. Benny P L Lo, Ph.D. student, Department of Computing, Distributed Software Engineering Section, Imperial College London
BRIEF DETAILS OF DANISH SCIENTISTS
Ass. Prof. Jakob E. Bardram
He is the manager of the Centre for Pervasive Healthcare, Aarhus University. Prior to this position he held a position as project manager and IT architect at IBM Denmark, where he architected and managed several e-business projects. Before joining IBM he held a position as an industrial research fellow at a CSC Scandihealth. He is a member of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).
Dr. ir. Nico J.M. Rijkhoff
Since May 1996 he has been working as a research assistant professor at the Center for Sensory-Motor Interaction at Aalborg University, Denmark. Nico J.M. Rijkhoff was born in Opmeer, The Netherlands. He received the M.Sc. degree in electrical and biomedical engineering in 1990. In 1996 he received the PhD-degree in medical sciences from the University of Nijmegen. The PhD-research concerned the development of a method of electrical stimulation for urinary bladder control.