The Inria@SiliconValley initiative, which promotes research collaboration with California partners, organizes a one-day open conference every year to exchange about ongoing international collaborations and the research challenges ahead of us. This year, Inria@SiliconValley partners, together with the Inria-Paris research center and Futur en Seine, hold a one-day conference dedicated to “Digital Sciences and Technologies for Health“.

Ongoing development in digital sciences and technologies are profoundly changing our lives. Major advances in information technology solutions to improve health and wellness include precision medicine, quantified self, mobile health, remote monitoring and sensors, and quantified health.

This one-day conference features keynote talks and panels with leading experts in the area, and serves as a catalyst to engage discussion on the ongoing revolution.

Location

The “Digital sciences and technologies for health” Conference will be hosted by the Futur en Seine Festival at Mairie du IIIe, 2 rue Eugène Spuller 75003 Paris. How to get there.

Registration

Conference registration HERE (limited seats). Attending the conference is free. Please note that participants who already registered to the conference through the BIS’2016 workshop do not need to register again. 

Agenda

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The speakers

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Nick Anderson

Benoit Bideau

Benoit Bideau : “Biomechanics and digital sciences to prevent risks of musculoskeletal disorders in elite sports practice”

Abstract: One of the main objectives in elite sports is to identify biomechanical parameters that are involved in the occurrence of traumas and musculoskeletal diseases. To this end, one has to evaluate joint constraints, such as joint torques and forces. Preliminary work has shown the relevance of studying these constraints thanks to inverse dynamics approaches. These works enables us to identify parameters that are supposed to be linked to musculoskeletal disorders. It could be applied to various physical activities, such as cycling on long distances or tennis serving. To fulfill the natural constraints of sports practice, one has also to consider fatigue. Indeed, long time competitions in tennis may affect the way the player perform tennis serve and consequently alter the associated joint constraints. In the same way, maintaining an efficient posture for a long time in cycling affects the cycling pattern and consequently produce asymmetrical motions which are considered as potential source of pathologies About the speaker: Benoit Bideau is associate professor in University Rennes 2, specialized in Biomechanics and new technologies applied to sports and human performance. He is the head of the M2S Lab “Motion, Sports and Health” in sports sciences in Rennes, and is member of the Inria MimeTIC team. His research works deal with kinematic and dynamic modelling of human motion, in order to identify criterions about human motion efficiency. A second objective consists in exploring the relationship between these criterions and the occurrence of musculoskeletal disorders. His research works also addressed the perception-action loop in duels in sports, using new technologies, such as virtual reality. He published several papers both in virtual reality, sports sciences, and biomechanics.