Human Factors and Ergonomics

Diagnosis

Stories

149
4049
0
0
30
Briefs: Electronics & Computers
Researchers at Stanford have been working on skin-like, stretchable electronic devices for over a decade. Recently, they presented a new design and fabrication process for skin-like integrated circuits that are five times smaller and operate at one thousand times higher speeds than earlier versions. Read on to learn more about it.
Feature Image
Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Researchers have found ways to develop soft OECTs for wearable pressure sensors. They first experimented with a solid type of gating substance: a charged, gelatinous substance called an ionic hydrogel. Read on to learn more.
Feature Image
Briefs: Test & Measurement
Glow Sticks: From Parties to Detecting Biothreats for the Navy
Remember that party where you were swinging glow sticks above your head or wearing them as necklaces? Fun times, right? Science times, too. Turns out those fun party favors are now being used by a University of Houston researcher to identify emerging biothreats for the United States...
Briefs: Photonics/Optics
Processes and structures within the body that are normally hidden from the eye can be made visible through medical imaging. Scientists use imaging to investigate...
Feature Image
Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Engineers have demonstrated an ingestible sensor whose location can be monitored as it moves through the digestive tract, an advance that could help doctors more easily diagnose gastrointestinal motility disorders such as constipation, gastroesophageal reflux disease, and gastroparesis.
Feature Image
Briefs: Medical
Scientists have created a new way to detect the proteins that make up the pandemic coronavirus as well as antibodies against it. They designed protein-based biosensors that glow when mixed with components of the virus or specific COVID-19 antibodies.
Feature Image
Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Diagnosing liver damage earlier could help to prevent liver failure in many patients.
Feature Image
Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Engineers have developed a thin, flexible, stretchy sweat sensor that can show the level of glucose, lactate, sodium, or pH of your sweat — at the press of a finger.
Feature Image
Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
The sensor can be stretched up to 50 percent with almost the same sensing performance.
Feature Image
Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
This set of oculomotor metrics provide valid and reliable measures of dynamic visual performance.
Feature Image
Briefs: Photonics/Optics
The new microscope is called a hybrid open-top light-sheet (OTLS) microscope.
Feature Image
Briefs: Medical
Public temperature checks have become common practice during the COVID-19 pandemic. Researchers at Texas A&M University hope to make it possible to check the temperatures of large groups of people more quickly and at a less expensive cost than allowed by current methods.
Feature Image
Briefs: Medical
Fluid could provide a new source of information for routine diagnostic testing.
Feature Image
Briefs: Medical
Unlike other tests, this test gives an estimate of viral load or the number of virus particles in a sample, which can help doctors monitor the progression of a COVID-19 infection and estimate how contagious a patient might be.
Feature Image
Briefs: Medical
The innovation opens the door for faster and more affordable at-home medical testing.
Feature Image
Briefs: Wearables
A new device from Lincoln Laboratory can now alert trainees when they are heading toward injury. The device continuously estimates a person’s core body temperature to determine their risk level...
Feature Image
Briefs: Electronics & Computers
Foodborne illness hits about one in six people in the United States every year from more than 31 recognized pathogens including E. coli O157:H7, a particularly harsh strain of E. coli. Researchers...
Feature Image
Briefs: Wearables
Engineers have created a flexible electronic sensing patch that can be sewn into clothing to analyze sweat for multiple markers. The patch could be used to diagnose and monitor...
Feature Image
Briefs: Power
Researchers have developed electronic skin (e-skin) that is applied directly on top of real skin. Made from soft, flexible rubber, it can be embedded with sensors that monitor...
Feature Image
Briefs: Wearables
Soft pressure sensors have received significant research attention in a variety of fields including soft robotics, electronic skin, and wearable electronics. Researchers have developed a highly sensitive...
Feature Image
Briefs: Manufacturing & Prototyping
The device ultimately should be able to provide accurate signals from a person who is walking, running, or climbing stairs.
Feature Image
Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
The Slinky-like sensor survives washing machines, cars, and hammers.
Feature Image
Briefs: Materials
Potential applications for a graphene atomic-level sensor include detecting COVID, ALS, and cancer.
Feature Image
Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
A new imaging technique measures temperature in 2D.
Feature Image
Briefs: Test & Measurement
The test can simultaneously diagnose cases, track variants, and detect co-infections.
Feature Image
Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
The smartphone-based device could reduce the pressure on testing laboratories during a pandemic.
Feature Image
Briefs: Wearables
The tool diagnoses a stroke based on abnormalities in a person’s speech and facial movements.
Feature Image
Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
A new imaging method measure temperature in 2D.
Feature Image
Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
The lenses enable the painless diagnosis or early detection of ocular diseases including glaucoma.
Feature Image

Videos