IPG Automotive GmbH is hosting an event to facilitate discussions on driving simulation technologies. We will be present to engage in dialogue on the latest advancements, share insights, and explore innovations. Our goal is to ensure that our driving simulators remain state-of-the-art and continuously evolve with the industry’s cutting-edge developments.
The joint project ‘DIGITAL SCRUBS’ is investigating multimodal attention assistance systems in the networked operating theater. It is testing how the attention of surgeons can be supported in a context-adaptive and neuroergonomic way. You can find a video about this project with interesting interviews with the various cooperation partners, Saarland University, Abat+, and Semvox in the MEDICA Erlebniswelten magazine.
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The empathic incubator is a project of the Center for Digital Neurotechnologies Saarland (CDNS), a consortium of Saarland University, University of Applied Sciences Saarbrücken, the Center for Mechatronics and Automation technology (ZeMA gGmbH) and many international partners, which focuses on the emotions of premature infants in order to develop an incubator that recognizes unpleasant situations without contact and can thus reduce stress. A film team from MEDICA magazine accompanied our project for a day, you can now see the result online in the MEDICA Erlebniswelten magazine.
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We recently attended the 46th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, in Orlando, Florida. At EMBC 2024, three of our researchers presented on our ongoing projects involving robotics, automation safety, and digital healthcare innovation. At the conference we collaborated with local organizations on how to tackle these research questions here in Germany, and we met with other international consortiums to share expertise on these topics and receive input on our current work, as well as to set up opportunities for further international and intersectional collaborations in the future. It was a wonderful experience connecting with other researchers and sharing our work with other leading experts in the field.
Toshiyo Tamura a leading expert in the field of wearable, remote photoplethysmography and blood pressure monitoring from Waseda University in Japan will be our guest from the 24th to 26th June. He will give a talk about video-based blood pressure monitoring at SNNU for the master class in neural engineering and for all who are interested in the topic.
Members of our SNN-Unit recently attended the international HeAL (Hearing Across the Lifespan) conference, held in the beautiful Villa Erba Conference Center at Lake Como. Besides listening to interesting talks about new developments in modern audiology and the science of hearing as well as meeting experts from all around the world, we were keen to present our new research in this remarkable setting. These were our topics: Electromyographic Signals from Auricular Muscles Show Distinct Patterns During Effortful Listening and Different Modes of Auditory Attention, A. Schroeer Pinna Related Transfer Function and Auricular Motor Activity, L. Almasu Post-Auricular Muscle Activity Reflecting the Exogenous Capture of Attention, L. Renz It was a great opportunity to exchange with other researchers in our field and we are now back with a ton of ideas, looking forward to visit HeAL again in 2025!
Steven Hillyard, an expert on visual and auditory attention from the University of California San Diego (UCSD), visited SNNU from September 29 to October 6, 2023. During his visit, he worked on collaborating projects in the field of selective auditory attention along the auditory pathway in humans. Some recent results of this collaboration can be found here:
For more information about Steven Hillyard, you can visit his UCSD profile at:
https://profiles.ucsd.edu/steven.hillyard
In the course of the Saarland University’s Virtual Open Doors Day 2020, the SNNU gives a brief overview of our latest research projects on remote monitoring of physiological parameters for applications in neuroscience, healthcare and neuroergonomics:
Link to the video [German]
A few weeks ago, we started a new study on the corona virus at the testing center in Saarbrücken (Messegelände Saarbrücken). In cooperation with the ZF AG, the Kassenärztliche Vereinigung Saarland (KV) and the Bundeswehr we are investigating whether symptoms of COVID-19 can be detected contactlessly with a battery of cameras and microphones. We expect the first results in summer 2020.
The applied methodology allows no reliable diagnosis, but could help to reduce the number of unnecessary laboratory tests by the early identification of suspected cases of SARS-CoV2 infections.
On May, 12 2020, local and regional political representatives (Christian Seel – Saarland State Secretary, Peter Gillo – director of the regional association Saarbrücken and Uwe Conradt – Mayor of Saarbrücken), as well as a delegation of the Bundeswehr (Generalleutnant Schelleis, Oberst Schirra and Oberst Heisner) visited our research setup. A short film interview about this visit can be found in the SR media center:
Studie zu kontaktlosen Corona-Tests angelaufen.
Also, the regional newspaper published two articles with additional information about our COVID-19 study:
Forscher aus dem Saarland wollen COVID Symptome mit Kameras finden ,
Saarländische Forscher untersuchen neues COVID-19 Testverfahren.
Futurologist and founder of the Swiss think tank ‘future matters’, Lars Thomsen, visited SNNU for an exchange about current research on the future of human machine interaction. A small report about his visit and our driving simulator based research projects was presented by SR: https://www.sr-mediathek.de/index.php?seite=7&id=81008&startvid=8