In the news: Canberra Times

On Sunday, following our appearance at NICTA-Canberra Tech-Net, the Canberra Times ran an article on the swimming study we are currently undertaking. Thanks to Frances Stewart for the great story!

Human Performance Improvement @ NICTA TechFest

Next week is TechFest at NICTA - so we're off to Sydney.


We'll be showing how the human body creates havoc for a radio connection with our wireless radio jacket: it's bright green (of course) and has small radio transceivers in pockets. The transceivers are used as part of our radio modeling work for the IEEE 802.15.6 standards, but we bring them out with a demo which shows the radio strength as a bubble moving between the sensors. Dance around and watch the bubbles react.

Last year we had a similar demo (it wasn't wireless then) which used sound pitch to mimic the radio strength, but we figured this year we'd lower the noise factor.


We'll also be demo-ing the sensor glove - which is a glove with inertial sensors and a bluetooth connection. The work we do with this is related to modeling human movement, and demonstrating the data requirements for raw signal processing: we don't build micro-sensors.

For the demo we're encouraging everyone to try playing a virtual piano.