Category

Events

Oct 16 2012
0

Wired Cafe: Arthritis Management in a Digital World

By | Events

Dr. Diane Gromala will be part of a panel discussing arthritis management in a digital world at the W2 Media Café, 111 West Hastings Street, Vancouver on Tuesday, October 16.

The rapid growth of digital media has provided tremendous opportunities to access health care when and where it is needed. From social networking tools and interactive websites, to animations and virtual realities, online and mobile technologies can improve access to treatment and support for people of all ages living with arthritis. Learn the latest from clinicians and researchers at BC Childrens Hospital, the Centre for Digital Media, the University of British Columbia and the Arthritis Research Centre of Canada.

Other panel members are Dr. Lori Tucker, Dr. Linda Li and Dr. Anne Townsend. The cafe starts at 6 p.m. and is free. If you cant attend in person, you can still be there digitally; just go to http://www.livestream.com/w2media.

Click here for more information.

Sep 07 2012
0

Pain Lab researchers to be part of ISEA STEMArts curriculum

By | Collaborations, Conferences, Events

Tyler Fox and Carlos Castellanos have been invited to be in the ISEA STEMArts curriculum, featuring DPrime Research (the artist-organization to which they belong) and their two alternative computing projects, Biolesce (exploring bioluminescent algae as a display in physical computing) and Biopoeisis (a chemically-based analog computer that explores concepts of conditioning, networks and emergent phenomena). STEMArts curriculum attempts to dissolve boundaries by using art as a way to explore and learn about science, engineering, technology and math.

DPrime Research specializes in cultural production informed by the intersection of technology, research and the arts. Our approach is exemplified by the enhancement of collaboration, dialogue and knowledge sharing between local communities, academic research and cultural institutions, with the goal of showcasing alternatives to dominant social and technological models.

Jul 23 2012
0

Information session for patients

By | Events

The Transforming Pain Research Group is holding an information session for chronic pain patients interested in learning more about our research. The session will be held at the Transforming Pain lab at the Simon Fraser University Surrey campus on Wednesday, August 1 at 6 p.m. If you’re interested in attending, please email admin@confrontingpain.com

Jul 04 2012
0

Webinar: The Chronic Pain Conundrum

By | Events

The Canadian Institute for the Relief of Pain and Disability and PainBC, with the support of the Canadian Pain Coalition, are launching a new webinar series, “Chronic Pain, Improving Life While Living It”. This free webinar series, provides an opportunity for for people living with pain as well as their families to learn from top researchers and practitioners how to live well with chronic pain.

The first webinar takes place July 25.

TOPIC: The Chronic Pain Conundrum: Current issues in research, awareness, education, access to care

Barry Sessle MDS, PhD (Professor & Canada Research Chair, Faculties of Dentistry and Medicine, U of T

Despite many recent advances over the past 40 years in the understanding of pain mechanisms, and in pain diagnosis and treatment, considerable gaps in knowledge, education and practice remain, with chronic pain present in epidemic proportions in most countries.

DATE: July 25, 2011 11:00 am noon (PDT) / 2 – 3:00 pm (EDT)

REGISTER NOW!

LEARN MORE about CIRPD and this webinar series 

May 31 2012
0

Proof-of-Process exhibit/workshop

By | Collaborations, Events

Pain Lab researchers Tyler Fox and Carlos Castellanos, along with former lab researcher Steven Barnes and SIAT student Diego Maranan, will be presenting an exhibit and workshop at Gallery Gachet in Vancouver called Proof-of-Process.

The exhibit takes place June 5-10 at the gallery, which is located in Gastown, 88 East Cordova Street.

Proof-of-Process consists of a series of a hybrid exhibitions, workshops and symposia where participants, along with artists-researchers, can interact with and collaborate on, the development of science and technology-based artworks and research projects in various stages of development all within a publicly accessible laboratory and production workshop set-up in the gallery space. We seek to engender an atmosphere of critical engagement and experimentation where the experience of the work unfolds through its direct manipulation. Visitors are invited not only to view and interact with projects, they are also encouraged to directly manipulate components and actively change the configuration of systems. Unplug, rewire, and experiment.

For more information or to register visit the project website at http://dprime.org/projects/proof-of-process/

May 17 2012
0

Video games in the classroom

By | Events

Pain lab researcher Terry Lavender led a workshop on using video games in the post-secondary classroom called First-Person Tutor. The workshop took place at SFUs Symposium on Teaching and Learning: Leading Change on May 17. The workshop ended with a lively debate on how to use Grand Theft Auto in a Criminology course and Angry Birds in a Physics course. The presentation can be found here.

May 16 2012
0

Vidyarthi presents Sonic Cradle at TEDActive

By | Events

Jay Vidyarthi presented his Sonic Cradle meditative biofeedback system at TEDActive 2012, held in Palm Springs February 27-March 2.

The annual conference aims to bring together innovative doers and thinkers to soak up remarkable ideas – and in a voice uniquely theirs, reflect them out to the world, according to the TEDActive website.

In the Sonic Cradle, the participant is placed inside a sensory-deprivation chamber and given the ability to write a song by breathing—the experience is difficult for participants to describe, and since it’s in their heads, the video only documents the surroundings. “The goal,” said Vidyarthi, “is to [alleviate] stress and anxiety by helping people learn how to mediate and giving them a meditative experience well beyond their actual ability.”

For more information about the Sonic Cradle, click here.

Mar 30 2012
0

Tyler Fox to present at ISEA 2012

By | Conferences, Events

Tyler Fox will be giving a workshop at ISEA 2012 (The Eighteenth International Symposium on Electronic Art) in Albuquerque, New Mexico) in September on using bioluminescent dinoflagellates along with physical computing.

Fox will also be in Open Lab, a show at Vancouvers Gallery Gachet in June, 2012. Open Lab involves artwork that encourages, and allows, the audience to change the parameters of the artwork. The show will run in conjunction with a number of workshops at Vancouver Hackspace.