Year: 2020

Michael joined the MaD lab in March 2020. He studied computer science and information systems at FAU. His master thesis in the NLP domain covered „label extraction from electrocardiogram free text reads“ and was conducted abroad in collaboration with the Computational Cardiovascular Research Group a...

Teamed up with STABILO and the Fraunhofer IIS in Nuremberg, the MaD Lab is taking part in the Ubicomp 2020 conference with Stabilos Time Series Classification Challenge. What’s the challenge? Stabilo built a sensor-equipped pen that writes on normal paper. The challenge is to build a classifier t...

Mobile gait analysis using wearable inertial measurement units (IMUs) provides valuable insights for the assessment of movement impairments in different neurological and musculoskeletal diseases, like Parkinson's disease. In the journal article "Detection of gait from continuous inertial sensor data...

On February 7, Martin was awarded with the Fritz und Maria Hofmann-Preis by FAU’s Faculty of Engineering. The award was presented by the Dean of the Faculty of Engineering, Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil. Andreas Paul Fröba, during the yearly graduation ceremony. Martin won the award for his Master’s Thesis “...

On January 30, students participating in the Innovation Lab for Wearable and Ubiquitous Computing presented their project to the Mayor of Erlangen and a news team of the Bavarian Broadcasting Corporation. The students developed a smart sensor that can be placed near a tree and detects automatically ...

On 6 December the 2nd ZD.B-Science Slam took place in Munich at the Einstein Kultur. Slammers presented their projects and knowledge to an audience of representatives from business, science, and politics. In his talk "Medical Data - The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly" Arne showed how the future of medi...