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This month heralds the launch of a new project in collaboration with the University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. For the next two years, medical engineers and computer scientists from the research campus STIMULATE will cooperate with scientists, gamification designers and game user researchers of the Games Institute at University of Waterloo on innovative input and output concepts for medical … Read more
Christian Hansen received a 12-month research grant from the German Research Foundation (DFG Research Fellowship). During a research stay at the Surgical Planning Laboratory, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA, a new method of 2D map display for navigational support during neurosurgical interventions will be developed. The project results will deliver findings about … Read more
Anneke Meyer (CAS group, University of Magdeburg) successfully applied for a travel grant from the BMBF’s Professorinnen Program II. The grant amount of €5,000 will allow her to stay for one month in Boston, USA, in order to initiate a collaboration with the Surgical Planning Laboratory (SPL) at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical … Read more
During the annual kick-off event of the Faculty of Computer Science at Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg, Jun.-Prof. Dr. Christian Hansen received a teaching award for the second best scientific seminar in summer semester 2016. The award was handed out by the student representatives of the computer science faculty (FaRaFIN).
Our project proposal “Automatic Online-Service to Generate Patient-Individual 3D Models to Support Therapy Decisions” was accepted for funding by the European Union and the state of Saxony-Anhalt with money from the European Regional Development Fund. Within the next three years, we will investigate methods for the preparation of patient-individual 3D models of the prostate. In … Read more
Benjamin Hatscher (CAS group, University of Magdeburg) was awarded a mobility grant by the German Society for Computer- and Robot-Assisted Surgery (CURAC). Benjamin works at the research campus STIMULATE in the field of human-computer interaction in medicine. The grant in the amount of €1500 should help to initiate a collaboration with the University of Waterloo, Canada and the Brigham and Women’s … Read more
Jun.-Prof. Dr. Christian Hansen received a teaching award for the lecture Three-Dimensional and Advanced Interaction. The lecture was ranked as the second best lecture at the Faculty of Computer Science in winter semester 2015/16. It was organized together with Prof. Dr. Bernhard Preim. The award was handed out by the student representatives of the computer science faculty (FaRaFIN).
Our project proposal “Improving Spatial Perception for Medical Augmented Reality using Illustrative Rendering and Auditory Display” was accepted for funding by the German Research Foundation (DFG). Within the next three years, we will investigate methods to encode spatial information by using illustrative visualization techniques and auditory display. The results of our project should provide new insights … Read more
During the annual kick-off event of the Faculty of Computer Science at Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg, Jun.-Prof. Dr. Christian Hansen received the teaching award for the best scientific seminar in summer semester 2015. The award was handed out by the student representatives of the computer science faculty (FaRaFIN). Find the official news release here.
Benjamin Hatscher joined our team in January 2016. Prior to that, he worked at Hochschule Magdeburg-Stendal in the research group SPiRIT. Benjamin holds a Master of Arts in interaction design. In the CAS group, he will support our research in the field of human-machine interaction. Therefore, he will strongly collaborate with our partner from Siemens Healthcare, the Institute … Read more