Session Chairs:
- Lucy Dunne, University of Minnesota
- Lars Oddsson, RxFunction, Inc.
Speakers:
- To be announced
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Presentation Details
Lucy Dunne, PhD
Professor, Design Innovation, University of Minnesota
Bio: Lucy Dunne, PhD, is a professor of Apparel Design and co-director of the Wearable Technology Lab in the UMN College of Design. Her research focuses on developing e-textile and garment-form wearable devices, investigating influencing factors like anthropometrics and human-device interaction, and advancing the state of the art in manufacturing and use of apparel and wearables. She is co-author of "Functional Clothing Design: from Sportswear to Space Suits" (Bloomsbury, 2015).
Lars Oddsson, PhD (Session Co-Chair)
- CTO, RxFunction
- Adjunct Professor, University of Minnesota
Bio: Lars Oddsson, PhD, is a biomedical scientist, an inventor and entrepreneur. He is CTO and Co-Founder of RxFunction, a start-up that has commercialized Walkasins, a wearable sensory prosthesis for balance. Dr. Oddsson teaches in the Medical Device Innovation program at the Technological Leadership Institute at the University of Minnesota and is Adjunct Professor in Rehabilitation Sciences at the Medical School. He is a visiting professor at the Recanati School of Health Professions at Ben-Gurion University in Israel. He is a co-investigator and consultant to NASA’s Johnson Space Center on projects related to the development of sensorimotor countermeasures to long-term spaceflight.