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…

Voices of prosthesis users, part 1

Guest post by Helen Millward

Tony was born without his left arm below the elbow. He visited us at Keele University a couple of weeks ago to discuss his thoughts on the current upper limb prosthetic options and his views on his own prosthesis…

How do we use our hands in communication?

This is a guest post by Alice Faux-Nightingale. Alice studied Biology and Psychology at Keele, and she is the youngest member of our team!

Conversation is more than just speech; conversation is an interactive dialogue which uses…

Meet the Team: Abbie

Hello there! I’m Abbie and I am a postdoctoral research associate at Keele University who’s been lucky enough to work on Dimitra’s team for “Progressive Prosthetics’”.

I’m looking forward to going to the Royal Society Summer Science Exhibition with Progressive…

April round-up, and some thoughts on human-centred design

I spent the first week of April in Greece. I could fill many pages on Greek Easter, but it’s not really relevant to the exhibition, and it would just make me hungry.