Future Scientist in Training!

This is a guest post from Ella Ramage, who spent a week with us on work experience, helping us prepare for the exhibit.

Hello! My name is Ella and for the past week, I have been doing work experience, here, at Keele University. I am 14 years old and…

Hand motion capture

I’ve had lunch and dinner outside in the last three days. In England. In April. I will remember these days fondly in August, when it is cold and rainy.

But science doesn’t stop when the rain does! I spent quite a few hours in our (windowless) lab this week. The reason…

Muscle activity processing

When muscles contract, they generate electricity that we can measure with a technique called electromyography (EMG). We get something that looks like this:

Meet the Team: Emma

So I am another team member and Dimitra has asked me to introduce myself on the blog. My name is Emma and I am a Biomedical Engineer researching prosthetic limbs at Newcastle University. I come from Geelong, a city near the beginning of the breathtakingly beautiful great ocean road in…

Muscle Contraction Dynamics

In our electromyography data processing journey so far, we’ve gone from this:

Activation Dynamics

Let’s get back to our data processing.

Voices of prosthesis users, part 2

Guest post by Helen Millward

Graham likes to joke about his prosthetic hand. He once told someone that he lost his hand due to a shark attack off the Great Barrier Reef while working as a scuba instructor.