Do you measure the human body within your role? Or do you use body measurements in your work? Are you interested in developing your body measuring understanding and skillset?
Join us at our 2-day workshop on 21st and 22nd March to hear from Sheffield Hallam’s academic experts from the Advanced Human Body Measurement Programme at the Advanced Wellbeing Research Centre (AWRC).
This workshop will explore how body measurement techniques can be improved, both manually and digitally, and will offer practitioners in the ergonomics and design field the opportunity to discover how to improve the accuracy and repeatability of body measurement and thereby the service provided.
Innovation Support: What your clients need to know
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Do you regularly work with local SMEs? Do you want to support your clients to grow and become more innovative and successful? Would access to academic expertise and world-class facilities at zero cost help?
On the 11th October, we’re hosting an event specifically for business intermediaries to enhance their knowledge of the SME innovation support available at Sheffield Hallam University.
This event is an opportunity for you to hear about the innovation funding and programmes available for SMEs in the region and find out how your clients can access them. Add more value and strengthen your client relationships by deepening your knowledge of the innovation support available, allowing you to make informed, relevant signposting and referral decisions.
You’ll also get the chance to take a look at some of the state-of-the-art facilities available at Sheffield Hallam University and network with other regional intermediaries over lunch.
During the event, you will:
- Hear about Sheffield Hallam University’s innovation support programmes, including Sheffield Innovation Programme and Digital Innovation for Growth.
- Find out how your clients can benefit from funded support and access to academic expertise.
- View our state-of-the-art facilities and find out how your clients can access these resources.
Who should attend?
Business intermediaries, local authority business support teams, the business support and advisory community, professional services providers, client facing professionals and anyone wanting to add value to their client relationships.
Business innovation with emerging digital technologies- by Digital Innovation for Growth
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Brought to you by Sheffield Hallam University's Advanced Wellbeing Research Centre (AWRC).
About this event
The AWRC, situated at the heart of the Sheffield Olympic Legacy Park (OLP), is a leading centre for physical activity research and a catalyser for cross-sectorial innovation with close partnerships with industries, local communities, local authorities, and charities.
The AWRC is home to the cutting-edge Wellbeing Accelerator that provides bespoke R&D packages which support SMEs and start-ups to bring health and wellbeing innovations to market.
The event will showcase a wide range of digital technologies that are transforming the way health care products and services are delivered to patients, as well as creating the conditions for economic growth.
During the event you will interact with the centre’s world-class researchers and learn through demonstration some of the most advanced digital and technological innovations. The AWRC’s state-of the-art fully instrumented indoor and outdoor laboratories can support SMEs and start-ups in the design, implementation and evaluation of products, services and interventions that promote physical activity and improve population health and wellbeing.
Showcases (reservation recommended):
The showcases will be running continuously in the Movement Analysis Lab, a 500 sqm, 7.5m high indoor 3D living laboratory, the largest in Europe.
The showcases include live interaction and demonstrations of:
• Cutting-edge robotics technologies to support clinicians and empower people to stay healthy and live independently for longer.
• Advanced biomechanics motion capture systems used to accurately track the motion of people or objects over a large measurement space, measure forces as a person moves over the floor, and estimate how hard muscles are working to create movement.
• AI technologies for custom software applications to help them improve athlete performance.
• Innovative products developed by national and international companies with the support of the AWRC Business accelerator and research staff.
Tour of the laboratories (reservation required)
• In the Applied Computing research laboratory, you will learn about a range of customised software applications which link data acquisition hardware with camera systems for monitoring and enhancing the performance of elite athletes.
• In the human performance lab, you will learn the role of digital innovations in developing rehabilitation in people with Long COVID, the role of Physical Activity in Healthy Ageing and digital tools to support people to be more active.
• In the morphology lab, you will learn how we are exploring new methods of human measurement. We use 3D scanning technology to measure the shape of a person, not just their size. We want to use these tools to help give more accurate assessments in healthcare. This could be with regards to health risk, but also dosing and treatment pathways.
Tours will be running at 1:15pm, 1:45pm and 2:15pm and are limited to 10 people.
Public showcase of digital and robotics technologies - by Digital Innovation for Growth
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The AWRC is situated at the heart of the Sheffield Olympic Legacy Park (OLP), the AWRC is a leading centre for physical activity research and a catalyser for cross-sectorial innovation with close partnerships with industries, local communities, local authorities, and charities.
The event will showcase a wide range of digital technologies that are transforming the way health care products and services are delivered to patients, as well as creating the conditions for economic growth.
During the event you will interact with the centre’s world-class researchers and learn through demonstration some of the most advanced digital and technological innovations. The AWRC’s state-of the-art fully instrumented indoor and outdoor laboratories can support SMEs and start-ups in the design, implementation and evaluation of products, services and interventions that promote physical activity and improve population health and wellbeing.
Showcases (reservation recommended):
The showcases will be running continuously in the Movement Analysis Lab, a 500 sqm, 7.5m high indoor 3D living laboratory, the largest in Europe.
The showcases include live interaction and demonstrations of:
• Cutting-edge robotics technologies to support clinicians and empower people to stay healthy and live independently for longer.
• Advanced biomechanics motion capture systems used to accurately track the motion of people or objects over a large measurement space, measure forces as a person moves over the floor, and estimate how hard muscles are working to create movement.
• AI technologies for custom software applications to help them improve athlete performance.
• Innovative products developed by national and international companies with the support of the AWRC Business accelerator and research staff.
Tour of the laboratories (reservation required):
• In the Applied Computing research laboratory, you will learn about a range of customised software applications which link data acquisition hardware with camera systems for monitoring and enhancing the performance of elite athletes.
• In the human performance lab, you will learn the role of digital innovations in developing rehabilitation in people with Long COVID, the role of Physical Activity in Healthy Ageing and digital tools to support people to be more active.
• In the morphology lab, you will learn how we are exploring new methods of human measurement. We use 3D scanning technology to measure the shape of a person, not just their size. We want to use these tools to help give more accurate assessments in healthcare. This could be with regards to health risk, but also dosing and treatment pathways.
Tours will be running at 2:45pm, 3:15pm and 3:45pm and are limited to 10 people.
Digital rehab & movement measurement in sport, health and wellbeing by Sheffield Innovation Programme
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The rapid advance of digital technologies has brought big changes to human movement measurement. But the constant evolution and ‘push’ of products and techniques can make it difficult to get the functionality and cost you need for your business to innovate and grow. How do you ensure value to your customers through best use of the data generated from these tools?
Join us at our breakfast event on 15th February to hear from Dr Ben Heller and Dr Marcus Dunn from the Sports Engineering Research Group on the latest research and innovations in digital human movement measurement, and discuss how to answer the ‘so what?’ question of value to your business and customers.
This event will provide an opportunity to network with other businesses in your sector, see the state-of-the-art facilities at our Advanced Wellbeing Research Centre, and explore how collaborating with the university can help you drive growth in your business.
You’ll also find out more about the potential funding opportunities available to SMEs in and around the Sheffield City Region to support innovative idea development, including the Sheffield Innovation Programme and Innovate UK’s Knowledge Transfer Partnership scheme.
Provisional programme:
• Innovations in digital rehabilitation and human movement measurement
• How data visualisation methods can enhance customer value
• How SERG and AWRC work with the region’s SMEs to drive business growth through evaluation, testing, and validation of new ideas.
What is SERG?
The Sports Engineering Research Group (SERG) is the world's largest academic group in sports engineering and an internationally renowned centre of excellence for research and knowledge transfer. The group's work is based on four research themes: applied computing, biomechanics, design engineering, and active travel. In each area, researchers develop fundamental knowledge and deliver applied solutions to enhance athletic performance, reduce injury, and promote physical activity. SERG provides support to a broad range of organisations in which human movement measurement, data management, and data visualisation plays a role in the delivery of their business.
In 2019, SERG evolved and formed the foundational pillar of the Advanced Wellbeing Research Centre (AWRC). The AWRC is a world‐leading £15.7 million research centre funded by the UK Department of Health, Sheffield Hallam University and with support by the European Social Fund. The AWRC co‐creates, evaluates, and exploits innovations in sport, physical activity and health with commercial and non‐commercial partners.
Who should attend?
This event should be of interest to SMEs in and around the Sheffield City Region that provide physiotherapy and rehab services, personal trainers, professional sports that manage athlete health, and wellbeing product/service companies.
When?
Tuesday 15th February 2022, 8:00am - 10:30am
Where?
Sheffield Hallam University, Advanced Wellbeing Research Centre, Olympic Legacy Park, 2 Old Hall Road, Sheffield S9 3TU
Other information:
Places are limited to 25 persons, and we will operate a first-come-first-served basis. If demand is high for places, we will consider running the event again.
Breakfast refreshments & catering will be provided at the event. If you have any dietary requirements, please either let us know upon registration or email Innovation@shu.ac.uk.
Should you have any questions prior to the event, please do not hesitate to email us at Innovation@shu.ac.uk.
This event will adhere to the government’s COVID-19 guidance
Digital rehabilitation & data visualisation in sport, health and wellbeing - by Sheffield Innovation Programme
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Advances in digital technologies have brought big changes to human movement measurement. How do you navigate the myriad of products to get the functionality and cost you need for patient or athlete rehabilitation? How do you provide value to your clients and customers through best use of the data generated?
The Sports Engineering Research Group (SERG) is the world's largest academic group in sports engineering and an internationally renowned centre of excellence for research and knowledge transfer. The group's work is based on four research themes: applied computing, biomechanics, design engineering, and active travel. In each area, researchers develop fundamental knowledge and deliver applied solutions to enhance athletic performance, reduce injury, and promote physical activity. SERG provides support to a broad range of organisations in which human movement measurement, data management, and data visualisation plays a role in the delivery of their business.
In 2019, SERG evolved and formed the foundational pillar of the Advanced Wellbeing Research Centre (AWRC). The AWRC is a world‐leading £15.7 million research centre funded by the UK Department of Health, Sheffield Hallam University and with support by the European Social Fund. The AWRC co‐creates, evaluates, and exploits innovations in sport, physical activity and health with commercial and non‐commercial partners.
Through the Sheffield Innovation Programme (SIP), SERG can provide SMEs within the Sheffield City Region (as well as Chesterfield, N-E Derbyshire, Derbyshire Dales, Bassetlaw and Bolsover) with free, informed academic research and knowledge to help enhance their business.
This event will focus on:
• Innovations in digital rehabilitation
• How data visualisation methods can enhance customer value
Agenda
8.00am: Arrival, breakfast & networking
8:30am: Welcome and Introduction, David Curtis, SERG, SHU
8.45am: Short talks on:
• Digital rehabilitation; Dr Marcus Dunn and Dr Ben Heller, SERG, SHU
• Data visualisation; Assoc. Prof Simon Choppin, SERG, SHU
• Sheffield Innovation Programme; Antony Davies, SIP, SHU
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