Egyptian Paralympic Teams – Arrival

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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.

 

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

Amr Ahmed DCAPI blog, iNET Scooter, Research, SUS-IT, Uncategorized

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).

 

 

 

Presented the DHS paper in the CGIM’12, Crete

Amr Ahmed DCAPI blog, Research, Virtual Reality

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: https://amrahmed.blogs.lincoln.ac.uk/2009/11/04/masterig-dhs/

Conference Paper Accepted – DHS virtual training

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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: https://amrahmed.blogs.lincoln.ac.uk/2009/11/04/masterig-dhs/

Haytham Mohtasseb VIVA – DONE…..

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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: https://amrahmed.blogs.lincoln.ac.uk/publications/ }

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

All the best.

Amr