A joint event delivered by Warwick Life Sciences & Healthcare Professional Network, Warwick Technology Professional Network, GestureTek Health.
About the Evening:
Immersive technologies provide healthcare professionals with the ability to transform the patient journey - from reception area, to treatment room, to rehabilitation regime. Gesture control and virtual reality (VR) based technologies allow hospitals to create a fun environment that increases patient sensory engagement whilst lowering anxiety. In the rehabilitation context, immersive VR therapy systems offer clinicians a powerful tool to increase patient motivation, creating marked improvements in physical and cognitive conditions. With the potential to enhance quality of life for those affected by dementia and Parkinson's, and to improve the recovery process for stroke and brain injury patients, immersive technologies are becoming an important tool in healthcare.
About the Organisers:
GestureTek Health is the inventor, pioneer, and world leader of video gesture-controlled displays that are revolutionizing rehabilitation, assistive technologies, and health facilities. Patients have fun in a hygienic environment with the company’s touch-free, gesture-controlled solutions for virtual reality therapy, multi-sensory stimulation and immersive play. These highly engaging experiences result in marked improvements of physical and cognitive conditions— regardless of age, ability, or stage of recovery. Already being sold globally, our state-of-the-art systems have unique patient and clinical benefits that have been proven in numerous studies over the last 20 years.
Technology Showcase will feature:
IREX: The IREX (Immersive Rehabilitation and Exercise System) places the patient’s live video image into virtual reality worlds while tracking isolated joint movement, combined joint movements, and full-body functional movement of both the upper and lower body. As the IREX measures, it records and reports the kinematic data of various activities. The IREX serves as a complement to traditional rehabilitation and neuro-rehabilitation regimes, and is used for injuries and conditions such as:
Soft tissue and joint injury, Stroke, Traumatic brain injury, Neurodevelopmental conditions, Neurodegenerative disease such as Multiple Sclerosis, Alzheimer's and Parkinson's, Spinal cord injury, Limb amputation
http://www.gesturetekhealth.com/node/27
CUBE: A compact and portable turnkey unit that projects an interactive gesture-controlled display onto a floor for high impact engagement and unique immersive experiential environments. A variety of applications can be used to either help participants get active and stimulate their senses, or to create calming ambient environments. The CUBE system is often placed in waiting rooms or sensory rooms within hospitals, clinics and care homes. It provides sensory engagement for those with physical or cognitive disabilities.
http://www.gesturetekhealth.com/solutions/sensory-engagement
ScreenXtreme: Enables individuals, regardless of age, condition or ability, to interact independently and to explore their own creativity and imagination. Our patented video gesture control software makes it possible to control virtual reality worlds by moving objects, changing images and creating dazzling animation effects. This touch-free system is used in waiting rooms, wards and sensory rooms.
Agenda:
18:00 Arrival, registration and welcome refreshments
18:30 Panel Session
19:30 Networking, featuring tech demos
21:00 Close
Where can one contact the organiser with any questions?
Please email business@wbs.ac.uk
What are my transport/parking options getting to the event?
Please visit http://www.the-shard.com/find-us/