Co-Organisers: Professor Melissa Knothe Tate and Professor Chun Wang
With the development of new materials and wearable systems including smart, multifunctional textiles and minimally invasive sensors, boundaries between wearables and implants are disappearing. Through application of similar paradigms and materials, outside – in and inside – out approaches produce increasing insights at the boundaries of human experience and well being (health), from physical to mental. These new technologies and approaches underpin the development and translation of next generation, body-powered, multiscale sensors sensors and measurement systems that run the gamut between breaking down barriers at the multiphysical device-body interface to building unprecedented bridges between intention and action, at the mind-body interface. Across the board, wearables provide new paradigms to improve well being throughout life by providing multifunctional boundaries engineered to harness interactions between the outside and inside world of the human body and mind. This symposium is designed to outline and highlight several recent breakthrough approaches in the field. The emerging and established leaders invited to present at the symposium will produce a jointly authored review manuscript to highlight the field in context of health and well being throughout life. This manuscript will be targeted for a multidisciplinary audience such as that of elife, Science Translational Medicine, or Nature Bioengineering.
We envision the symposium/conference session to include, i.a.
- Introductory remarks (15 min) – Prof Melissa L. Knothe Tate
- Outside – in: Wearables as a window to the inner world of the body, allowing measurement and elucidation of multiphysical force balances in the inner world (30 min) – TBA
- Inside – out: Implants that harness the biophysical cues of the outside world to modulate and monitor healing responses (30 min) – TBA
- Wearables as translators between the mental and physical world (30 min) – TBA
- Multifunctional textiles to bridge the inner and outer physical worlds (30 min) – TBA
- Wearables as bridges between the mind and the body – Prof Dawn Taylor, Cleveland Clinic
- Concluding remarks (15 min) – Prof Chung Wang, University of New South Wales