uOttawa SESA and CREATE-BEST are proud to bring the first of its kind, design talk to the University of Ottawa. Learn about design systems, creating engaging user interfaces and discovering user needs. The speaker at this event was Andy Fang, a UX Systems Front-End Developer at Shopify. He works on Shopify’s design system, helping teams design Read more about User Interface Design Talk with Shopify[…]
The first Mobile App Development course targets participants that have basic experience in mobile app programming. The course, given by Dr. Hussein Al Osman at the University of Ottawa, is divided into four 3-hour modules: 1:00pm-4:00pm on Thursday Sep 28, 2017: Module 1 – Introduction to Android Recorded session 1:00pm-4:00pm on Thursday Oct 5, 2017: Module Read more about Mobile App Development Course[…]
CREATE-BEST organized a talk and discussion tailored for engineers and scientists with basic medical background, and are interested in working in the medical field. The title of the session is “Research Ethics and Healthcare” and was given by the Ottawa Hospital Research Institute guest speakers: Edward Lemaire, PhD Professor, University of Ottawa, Faculty of Medicine Senior Read more about Healthcare Research Ethics Session[…]
A short talk and discussion was given by guest speaker, Dr. Ali Pourshahid from Klipfolio. Talk title: How to architect cloud applications for scalability, performance, and resiliency When: 5:30pm on Wednesday October 4, 2017 Where: University of Ottawa, SITE (800 King Edward Ave.) room C0136 The talk focused on challenges of building software in the cloud Read more about “Design of Cloud Applications” by Klipfolio’s Director of Software Development[…]
CREATE-BEST and the Medical Devices Innovation Institute (MDII) organized a research poster day on September 14, 2017. This was meant as an opportunity for students, researchers and industry in the area of eHealth, mHealth, well-being and medical devices to interact and to learn about each others with the hope of finding mutual interests to start Read more about MDII and CREATE-BEST Poster Day[…]
Dr. Octavian Postolache, Assistant Professor at Instituto Superior Tecnico, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal, and Distinguished Lecturer of IEEE IMS, will be giving a talk about Unobtrusive Smart Sensing and Pervasive Computing for Healthcare. Dr. Postolache received the PhD degree in 1999 from the Gheorghe Asachi Technical University of Iasi, and university habilitation in 2016 from Read more about Talk: Smart Sensing and Pervasive Computing for Healthcare[…]
The University of Ottawa’s Mechanical Engineering professor Dr. Ali Abbas is organizing a conference on Biomedical Engineering Research and Innovation. Graduate students will be presenting their research and projects in a conference fashion where everyone is welcome! The conference will take place on: When: Sunday August 6th, 2017 (12:00pm to 6:00pm) Where: University of Ottawa, SITE Read more about uOttawa Conference on Biomedical Engineering Research and Innovation[…]
Dr. Kevin Englehart, professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and director of the Biomedical Engineering Institute at the University of New Brunswick, will be visiting Carleton University in Ottawa to give a talk on EMG Control of Powered Prostheses: State-of-the-Art and Clinical Challenges. Dr. Englehart is a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering. He Read more about Talk: EMG Control of Powered Prostheses[…]
Dr. Will Dixon, the Principal Investigator of a UK study called “Cloudy with a Chance of Pain” gave a seminar on June 8 at 2pm at the McIntyre Medical Building, Osler Library, 3rd Floor, Room 131A. Cloudy with a Chance of Pain is a national smartphone study in the UK investigating the age-old belief that weather Read more about Talk: “Cloudy with a Chance of Pain” – a national study[…]
As part of the CREATE-BEST program, some of the great ideas that were pitched in the Pitch-an-App contest back in March were chosen to advance into the development phase. The Design Sprint took place on the week of May 15, 2017. Each group included the idea owner(s) in addition to student volunteers that were chosen to Read more about Design Sprint[…]