.1EventsMay 15, 2017 Anita Schjøll Abildgaard Gaining context for a research problemGaining context for the research problem we’re trying to help solve Last week, we hosted a Scithon in collaboration with Stryker, Augmented Vision and Freiburg University Medical Center. We put a group of medical engineers, IT experts, neurosurgeons and urologists in a room to discuss and research methods for advancing Augmented Reality/Virtual Reality in surgical […]
.2EventsMay 5, 2017 Anita Schjøll Abildgaard Can Virtual & Augmented Reality improve medical education?Can Virtual and Augmented reality improve the medical training process? Virtual Reality & Augmented Reality are changing the world as we know it, every day we are discovering new uses for these innovative technologies. The medical field is one that is especially excited to see the applications of VR and AR evolve, as the implementation […]
.3EventsMarch 31, 2017 Anita Schjøll Abildgaard What does Iris.ai have in common with SpaceX?Iris.ai gives students, researchers, and engineers alike, the tools to realize and actualize their (spatial) dreams. And in this case, dreams of making aerospace history. Two months after SpaceX’s Dragon launch mission, Iris.AI hosted a science hackathon or Scithon as we like to call it, in partnership with the leading composite materials research institute Swerea […]
.4EventsMarch 23, 2017 Anita Schjøll Abildgaard Using Iris.ai to discover better ways to achieve healthy lifestylesAddressing the challenge of achieving healthier lifestyles Last week, we were at the Lapland University of Applied Science, in Finland, where we held a Science Hackathon in collaboration with Hotus and Skhole Oy. The goal of this intensive day long research sprint was to identify the most effective interventions to sustain healthy lifestyles in healthcare. […]
.5EventsFebruary 27, 2017 Maria Ritola Our next Scithon: Fixing problems in healthcareLet’s face it: changing lifestyles is hard. Major lifestyle diseases, including adulthood diabetes and heart disease, take way too many lives each year. The problem is not the lack of information in healthcare, but fragmentation and poor implementation of information. When we first sat down a couple of months ago with Skhole Oy and the Nursing Research Foundation, we quickly came to […]