VX Conversations: Serious Games Meets Mobile Health

Join us on March 19 (9:00am-11:00am) as we look at how wireless and digital media are converging with health, wellness and sport and how it is changing the future of health, mobility, access, rehab and training as a result.

DigiBC & LifeSciences BC bring you a morning of demos, conversation, insight and networking.

Our panel will consist of both interface developers and researchers, as well as serious gaming experts:

• Dr. Jaimie Borisoff, Michael Smith Foundation (former Paralympian and now researcher looking at the development of a direct computer interface using descending motor potentials recorded from the spinal cord)
• Brad Zdanivsky, Vertical Challenge (open source code project to provide a framework for BlueTooth Physiological Sensors)
• Mark Baxter, FitBrains (casual gaming platform featuring games that exercise the key cognitive areas of the brain)
• Tarrnie Williams, Executive Producer, EA Active Fit Game
• Moderator: Dr. Ward Plunet – PhD, Neuroscience- research focus centers on discovering treatments to improve functional recovery after spinal cord injury, and extend the shortened lifespan of individuals with spinal cord injury

  When:

  Fri, March 19, 2010 9:00 AM - 11:00 AM

  Where:

  BC Showcase
  800 Robson St, Vancouver, BC, Canada

  Host:

  DigiBC

  More Info:

  http://www.eventbrite.com/event/602725769

  iCal:

  VX Conversations: Serious Games Meets Mobile Health iCal file

   

  

  Company:

  DigiBC

  Website:

  http://www.digibc.org

  Location:

  Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

  The Digital Media and Wireless Association of BC – is a member-supported, non-profit organization, based in Vancouver, BC Canada. DigiBC’s... [more]