Abstract
The use of inertial measurement units or wearables is increasingly playing a strong role in healthcare and biomedical engineering. It allows clinicians to monitor patients remotely and for people who engage differently with the healthcare system. At the Auckland Bioengineering Institute (University of Auckland) in New Zealand we developed wearable technology to be used in both the sports and healthcare environments. In this talk I will present the wearables we developed and show their usage in FOUR studies. (i) I will show how they can provide additional information not observed with traditional patient related outcome measures in orthopaedics; (ii) I will show how they can be used to predict motion analysis biomechanics and show patient recovery; (iii) I will present how they can be used to predict different types of movements apart from walking; (iv) I will showcase how they can be used to predict patient satisfaction metrics during rehabilitation following a knee joint replacement. Finally, I will review some important caveats when using wearables in healthcare.
Bio
Justin is a Professor in the Department of Engineering Science and Biomedical Engineering, and the Auckland Bioengineering Institute, University of Auckland. He graduated with a Bachelor of Engineering (Honours first class) in Engineering Science (1999) and a PhD in Bioengineering from the University of Auckland (2004). Between 2005 and 2010 he completed an ARC postdoctoral fellowship at Melbourne University in Mechanical Engineering and was a research scientist at the CSIRO. From 2011 to 2013 he was an Aotearoa Fellow funded by the Robertson Foundation in the Auckland Bioengineering Institute.
He is a Principal Investigator in the musculoskeletal modelling group where he leads research into computational biomechanics, orthopaedics, sports science, brain mechanics, and ADHD. His work integrates biomedical imaging, gait analysis, wearable sensors, large population data, statistical models, and computational mechanics. His research strongly focuses on clinician engagement.
