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A scrapbook of illustrated examples of things that are hard to use because they do not follow human factors principles.

Integration of health monitoring tools into textiles brings the benefits of safety and comfort to the users. Instrumented clothes will provide remote monitoring of vitals signs, diagnostics to improve early illness detection and metabolic disorder and benefits to the reduction on medical social costs to the citizen. Ambulatory healthcare, isolated people, convalescent people and patients with chronic diseases are addressed.

The concept of using thought to move a robotic device, a wheelchair, a prosthetic, or a computer was once strictly the stuff of science fiction, but no longer. BrainGate™ collects and analyzes the brainwaves of individuals with pronounced physical disabilities, turning thoughts into actions.

We aim to raise a new generation of neuroscientists trained to work in forward-thinking interdisciplinary environments. The philosophy of the Center is “pedagogy from hands-on research experience”. A central focus of the Center is our Ph.D. program, created to provide a multi-disciplinary training with the goal of creating a “new breed” of scientist who can unite theory and experiment, computational modeling and complex data collection and analysis using the latest technologies.