9th Annual IRMACS Day
On Friday, April 4th, 2014, the IRMACS Centre will celebrate its 9th anniversary of operation and the launch of the IRMACS Centre's 2014 Thematic Year dedicated to the pan-Canadian research initiative:
AGE-WELL: Aging Gracefully across Environments using Technology to Support Wellness, Engagement, and Long Life.
A globally aging population demands innovative approaches to ensure people across societies can live and age well. In particular, there is a need to move from health and social agendas that emphasize dependency as we age, to ones that promote healthy aging and independence. There is now a huge interest in how we can harness the potential of technology to enhance the quality of life and health of seniors and to provide high-quality and sustainable services and solutions to meet the needs of the current and future generations of older adults in Canada.
We are preparing a series of events and we hope that you will join us.
Please register at this link.
About Dr. Geoff Fernie: Professor Fernie is a Senior Scientist at the Toronto Rehabilitation Institute with cross-appointments at the Department of Surgery, Institute of Biomaterials and Biomedical Engineering, the Graduate Department of Rehabilitation Science, and the Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering. Geoff has been responsible for many products that assist people's independence, including innovative wheelchairs and bathroom aids. He is also passionate about encouraging entrepreneurship to bring new products to market and develop Canadian industry.
Demonstrations
| Hamed Yaghoubi Shahir | BADAS Project - Developing a Mobile Tool for Ecological Momentary Sampling with Older Adults with Bipolar Disorder | ASB 10901 - 1:30 pm |
| Steve Robinovitch | TIPS Project - Technology for Injury Prevention in Seniors (TIPS): Addressing the cause and prevention of falls in older adults | ASB 10901 - 2:00 pm |
| Philippe Giabbanelli | CoCo: Microsimulation Modelling Framework FCM-RCT: Randomized Controlled Trials for Health Behaviour Change |
ASB 10908 |
| Piper Jackson | MoCSSy Program - Simulations including the Crowd Behaviour Simulator and Social Mind | ASB 10908 |
| J.S. Mercier | VIVA Project - Lensing Wikipedia and other Visual Analytics Tools | IRMACS Atrium |
| Shahram Payendah/Cliff Edwards/George Xu | Robotics for Remote Monitoring and Well Being | IRMACS Atrium |
| Veselin Jungic | Math Catcher Outreach Program Adventures of Small Number (Episodes 1-5) |
IRMACS Theatre |
| Brian Corrie | 3D Visualization of Network Models of HIV Spread | IRMACS Atrium |
Poster Session
| Ryan Woolrych | Understanding Falls in Long-Term Care: A Video-based Case Study Approach |
| Heather Stewart | The Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging: Advancing the Science of Population Health and Aging through Interdisciplinary Research |
| Bozena Kaminska/Kian Davoudi | Mechanically Flexible Biosensor for Detection of Photoplethysmography |
| Brian Booth | Modelling the Healthy Premature Infant Brain |
| Maryam Sadeghi | Developing a Tele-medicine System for Monitoring and Managing Pressure Ulcers in Long-term Care Facilities |
| Andrew Sixsmith/Alex Mihalidis | Aging Gracefully across Environments using Technology to Support Wellness, Engagement, and Long Life |
| Catherine Bigonnesse | Exploring the Potential of Innovative Housing Models for Older Adults to Support Aging-in-Place |
| Laura Booi | Care staff attitudes in Residential Care: A preliminary review |
| Stephanie Blackman | Investigating the Feasibility of Smartphone Applications as a Support for Older Adults with Mild Impairments in Cognition |
| Sarah Wu | Individual differences as predictors of suicide-related ideation among older adults at risk of self-harm |
| Piper Jackson | Modelling the prevalence of HIV immune escape mutations in human populations |
| Jeremy Kawahara | Predicting disability level in multiple sclerosis patients using spinal cord measurements from 3D MRI |
| J.S. Mercier | Integrating visual analytics in the computational modelling process |
| Ali Nadaf | Estimating HIV Incidence: A Mathematical Modelling Approach |
| Bojan Ramadanovic | Network Model of HIV Epidemic in Downtown Eastside of Vancouver |
| Bojan Ramadanovic | Modelling Critical Care in British Columbia |
| Teresa Cheung | Assessing early onset Alzheimer's Disease with MEG |
