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Egyptian Paralympic Teams – Arrival

The Egyptian Paralympics Teams arrived today, to start their pre-games training camp in Lincolnshire. Amr Ahmed welcomed the teams at Heathrow airport, with project managers from Lincolnshire Sports Partnership (Hayley Cook), Lincoln County Council (Sally Rate, Rachel Townsend), and a team of volunteers including Ghada Mohamed. The teams were transferred, buy 2 coaches, to Lincoln’s Holiday Inn Express where they are hosted for the training camp period.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Members of the Egyptian Paralympics Teams are getting on coaches, to leave Heathrow airport heading to Lincoln

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

It was an honour and a pleasure to welcome all memebers of the Egyptian Paralympics Teams and Officials, led by Prof. Mohsen El-Mahdy (Chief De Mission), and including Captin Yusri Awad and Dr Ahmed.

Later at night, a brief review of the schedule with the coaches, especially of the first day as it also coincides with Eid day (The Celebration after the Holy Month of Ramadan). Here (Left) is Captin Emad Ramadan for the Sitting Volly Ball team.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Amr had visited the Head quarter of the Egyptian Paralympics Committee in Cairo, 10 days ago, and had discussions with the Chief De Mission and officials for the final arrangements.

 

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Posters & Presentations in the Gerontology Conference (ISG*ISARC2012, Eindhoven)

Amr Ahmed has attended the International Conference of the Society of Gerontology, Technishe Universiteit Eindhoven (TU/e), Eindhevn, Netherlands. He, with Dr Chris Liam (Surrey), presented a poster with oral presentation in relation to the SUS-IT project outcomes. Amr also had another poster in relation to the Intelligent Mobility Scooter Navigation project (funded by the iNET Transport).

 

 

 

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Presented the DHS paper in the CGIM’12, Crete

Amr presented a paper to the IASTED CGIM’12 conference about the DHS surgeon virtual training project.   This paper reports on the development of the 2 3D tracking prototypes for virtual reality training of surgeons (in vitro / Off patient), especially for the Dynamic Hip Screw surgical procedure (in particular; the insertion of the guide-wire). The aim is to develop the cognitive coordination, in particular the Brain/Hands/Eyes coordination that is crucial for such procedure. But through an affordable system that uses Commercial off-the-shelf (COTs)  components.

This work is in collaboration with Prof. Maqsood, Consultant Trauma and Orthopaedic surgeon in the Lincoln Hospital.

 

Project in the media/press:

More information and images: http://amrahmed.blogs.lincoln.ac.uk/2009/11/04/masterig-dhs/

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Conference Paper Accepted – DHS virtual training

Another conference paper been accpeted, and will be published in June 2012. This paper reports on the development of the 2 3D tracking prototypes for virtual reality training of surgeons (in vitro / Off patient), especially for the Dynamic Hip Screw surgical procedure (in particular; the insertion of the guide-wire). The aim is to develop the cognitive coordination, in particular the Brain/Hands/Eyes coordination that is crucial for such procedure. But through an affordable system that uses Commercial off-the-shelf (COTs)  components.

This work is in collaboration with Prof. Maqsood, Consultant Trauma and Orthopaedic surgeon in the Lincoln Hospital.

 

Project in the media/press:

More information and images: http://amrahmed.blogs.lincoln.ac.uk/2009/11/04/masterig-dhs/

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Haytham Mohtasseb VIVA – DONE…..

Haytham Mohtasseb has passed his viva this Tuesday (subject to amendments). Well done Dr Mohtasseb….

Haytham has been working with me (and Dr David Cobham) analysing blogs for users’ writing styles,  grouping, and Authorship identification. He had 7 publications, including a Journal and a Book Chapter and several international conferences. {automatic list of publications can be found her: http://amrahmed.blogs.lincoln.ac.uk/publications/ }

A celebration is going on Thursday 12:30-13:30.

All the best.

Amr

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Showcasing Week. A successful event that is coming to be annual in LSoCS

Students, Staff and Visitors gathered in Comp Lab ‘B’ in the School of Computer Science, where the posters and interactive demos were setup, and the session was officially opened by the Head of the School, Dr David Cobham. This demos session was the concluding session of the Showcasing week for the Undergraduate Projects work. Local companies, like Rockstar Games and Artgraphica, participated in the event and the judging panel. Posters have been in display around the lab and interactive demos included; Websites, Gesture-controlled Robots, Retinal Analysis, Map analysis for navigation, Healthy Eating through receipt analysis, and analysing Cheating in Games.

Interactive Demo: Gesture-Controlled Rovio robot
Simple game for analysing “Cheating in Games”
Encouraging Healthy Eating, through analysis of shopping reciepts!
Enhancement of Retinal Images, for better analysis and diagnosis of Retina and related diseases
Interactive Demo: Map analysis and Topological Path Finding Application

The “Best Poster” and the “Best Demo” (as well as their corresponding honorary positions) were announced at the end of the event, by the industrial panel.  Congratulations for the Winners, but well done for everyone.

Companies’ representatives and visitors praised the event and commented that this is the way forward, and students need to get used to this kind of event, presenting their work more and more to potential employers. They are looking forward to an even bigger event next year.

It was my pleasure to organise the event, and especially when seeing students very pleased to participate and enjoying presenting and talking to all visitors (especially with the companies’ representatives).

Thank you for all involved in the organisation and setup, especially the Technical and Admin teams.

A special thank you to Tom Feltwell (LSoCS Technician) for his excellent support and dedication.

Well done everyone.

All the best Amr

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(iNET) Intelligent Mobility: Making it a Commercial Reality – National Space Centre

 
Amr Presenting a Poster at the National Space Centre, Leicester. iNET Transport, Mobility Scooter with Navigation System

Amr Ahmed has been invited for this iNET Transport event at the National Space Centre, as has been a partner in one of the iNET Transport projects. During the day, Amr presented a Poster, with support from Tony Daniel, about his iNET project; Mobility Scooter with navigation system (Demo video at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RGQm4GKfgN0 and list of Projects at http://amrahmed.blogs.lincoln.ac.uk/projects/ )

 

 

Amr Presenting a Poster at the National Space Centre, Leicester. iNET Transport, Mobility Scooter with Navigation System
National Space Centre - Leicester
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V&L Network workshop, Brighton

Dr Amr Ahmed attended the Vision & Language Netowork Workshop in Brighton last Thursday 15th September, where 2 posters and oral presentation were presented from the DCAPI group.

DCAPI poster at the V&L Network workshop - Sept'11 - Brighton
DCAPI poster at the V&L workshop

 

Over 40 researchers, from vision and language areas, attended and it was a good opportunity for networking and exchange of contacts and ideas. Posters and sides will be available on the network’s website in the near future

Amr and a keynote speaker
Amr and a keynote speaker
Amr and a keynote speaker
Amr and one of the keynote speaker

 

Mr Amjad Altadmri also attended and presented in the event.

Some nice photos in Brighton,

Amr in Brighton Pier
Amr in Brighton Pier

with some Icereame! 🙂

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ECM9 and Audit meeting for SUS-IT project

Dr Amr Ahmed participated in the 9th Executive Committe Meeting (ECM) of his SUS-IT project, at Loughborough, on 9th Septmeber. This was immediately followed by an Audit meeting with an NDA representative.

Very interesting to see the work of such a large consortium coming together during the final year of the project, with experienced researchers/professors.  An excellent experience.