Dec 3 2015
AGE-WELL and Mircom are pleased to announce that the University of Toronto’s Zain Hasan has been awarded the inaugural AGE-WELL – Mircom Graduate Student Award in Technology and Aging. This 1 year award will support his master’s project, Artificially Intelligent Fall Predictive Computer Vision System, supervised by Dr. Alex Mihailidis. The project seeks to develop
Nov 24 2015
(version française) Jim Mann was once a world traveller. But the most difficult journey of his life began in a mundane location in 2007. While walking through a small airport, he suddenly realized he had no idea of where he was or what to do next. Before long he was undergoing tests which led to
Nov 24 2015
As part of a new, nationwide drive to promote research and innovation in technology and aging, AGE-WELL and the Centre de recherche de l’Institut universitaire de gériatrie de Montréal (CRIUGM) are pleased to team up to offer scholarships to two outstanding students. We are thrilled to announce that Nolwenn Lapierre and Dr. Maxime Lussier were
Nov 18 2015
It was a form of speed dating with a social purpose. 300 people jammed a large, airy room with a view of the lake at George Brown College’s Waterfront Campus. Brilliant researchers, bleary-eyed from long hours of intellectual labour, gathered around laptops, staring intently at apps and gadgets they had just created. Half-eaten pizza littered
Nov 6 2015
Pervasive Health Conference is a premier international forum with specific focus on technologies and human factors related to the use of ubiquitous computing in healthcare and for wellbeing. The overall goal of the Pervasive Health Conference is to take a multidisciplinary approach to Pervasive Healthcare Technology research and development. We welcome contributions from the following