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The Chair of Digital Health is looking for PhD students (see: open positions) as well as FAU student researchers/HiWis (see: HiWi positions) . Continue

Prof. Oliver Amft gave a well received invited talk at the Hasso Plattner Institute (HPI) during the Digital Health Forum held during December 6-7 in Potsdam, Germany. The programme can be found at: https://hpi.de/digital-health-center/events/2018/veranstaltungen/program.html. Talk title: How Wea... Continue

Prof. Oliver Amft gave invited research lectures on Personal Health Systems at several institutions in the Boston area, including Spaulding Rehabilitation Center, Northeastern University, and at Dartmouth College during Nov 12-15, 2018. Talk title: Personal health system design and marker estimat... Continue

IEEE Pervasive Computing launched a call on "Fabricating Pervasive Computing Systems" inviting manuscripts on methods for 3D printed (electronic) devices with applications in pervasive computing, in particular also health and medical devices. Continue

Oliver Amft will give an invited talk at the 52nd annual conference of the German Society for Biomedical Engineering (BMT '18) in Aachen. Continue

We welcome Samira Tansaz to the Chair of Digital Health. Samira obtained her PhD in Engineering (Material Science/Biomaterials) from Prof. Boccaccini's group (FAU) and will strengthening our sensor and systems technology research. More information about Samira can be found here: http://www.cdh.med.f... Continue

Prof. Oliver Amft will give the opening talk and participate in the panel discussion (in German) at the Novartis Symposium "Rheumatologie 2.0, Patient 3.0, Health 4.0: Wie die „digitale Revolution“ die Rheumatologie verändern könnte" to be held in Mannheim on September 20, 2018. The symposium is co-... Continue

The chair is presenting three research papers at Ubicomp/ISWC 2018 conferences in Singapore. Continue

For the first time we design eyeglasses temples and 3D print conductive lines and electromyography (EMG) electrodes on the temples according to personal head shapes. We demonstrate that the printed lines and electrodes provide adequate signal quality to acquire the Temporalis muscle activation during chewing. Continue

We analyse for the first time a unique database of over 2000 runners regarding their 10km performance in relation to anthropometrics, resting heart rate (HR) and heart rate variability (HRV), and training patterns regularly acquired over two years using smartphones. Continue