Workshops March 2012 and Earlier
- Jennifer Hicks
MARCH 2012: ADVANCED USER AND DEVELOPER WORKSHOP
From March 20-21, 2011 20 researchers from around the world participated in an OpenSim workshop for advanced users and developers on the Stanford University campus. The participants, travel award winners through the NCSRR Pilot Project Program, worked closely with the Stanford team to make progress on their research projects. Project topics ranged from modeling the effects of prosthetics to simulating hand cycling for patients with spinal cord injuries. The album below contains pictures from the last day of the workshop. Visit the workshop's website to download slides, handouts, and examples from the workshop.
OCTOBER 2011: INSTRUCTIONAL COURSE AT AACPDM
The NCSRR led a hands on session entitled, "Simulation of Human Movement and Gait Pathology - An Introduction to OpenSim for the Clinician" at the Annual Meeting of the American Academy for Cerebral Palsy and Developmental Medicine. Twenty surgeons, physical therapists, and other clinicians learned how OpenSim can be used to help plan surgery for children with cerebral palsy. The OpenSim team encountered lots of enthusiasm and interest at the workshop, which was their first time introducing simulation to this clinical conference. Visit the workshop's website to download slides and handouts from the workshop.
SEPTEMBER 2011: WORKSHOP AT THE HYPER SUMMER SCHOOL ON NEUROREHABILITATION
Members of the OpenSim team traveled to La Alberca, Spain to give an OpenSim workshop at the HYPER Summer School on Neurorehabilitation. Jeff Reinbolt, from the University of Tennesse, and Jennifer Hicks, from Stanford, introduced 50 rehabilitation engineers to the OpenSim software package. Students got hands-on practice using the OpenSim pipeline and a new interface with Matlab/Simulink, which is set to be released by Reinbolt in the coming months. Visit the workshop's website to download slides and handouts from the workshop. See the album below for some pictures from the workshop.
AUGUST 2011: ADVANCED USER AND DEVELOPER WORKSHOP
From August 15-17, 2011 20 researchers from around the world participated in an OpenSim workshop for advanced users and developers on the Stanford University campus. The participants worked closely with the Stanford team and the NCSRR Visting Scholars to make progress on their research projects. Project topics ranged from modeling chimpanzees to simulating postural stability tests. The album below contains pictures from the last day of the workshop. Visit the workshop's website to download slides, handouts, and examples from the workshop.
JUNE 2011: WORKSHOP AT THE ISB TECHNICAL GROUP ON SIMULATION MEETING
The OpenSim team had a strong showing during the recent International Society of Biomechanics (ISB) Congress in Brussels. The first event was a workshop organized for over 50 participants during the ISB Technical Group on Computer Simulation (TGCS) Symposium. The new hands-on, group-oriented exercises taught participants how to work through common errors made when using OpenSim for research. Also encouraging was the large number of research talks and posters during TGCS and the general ISB meeting that used OpenSim. Other activities during ISB included a special OpenSim demo that was hosted through our NMS Physiome (http://www.nmsphysiome.eu/) collaboration and attended by over 50 researchers, many new to OpenSim. Visit the workshop's website to download slides, handouts, and examples from the workshop.
MARCH 2011: ADVANCED USER AND DEVELOPER WORKSHOP
From March 16-18, 2011 over 20 researchers, from students to professors, participated in an OpenSim workshop for advanced users and developers on the Stanford University campus. The participants worked closely with the OpenSim and NCSRR team at Stanford to make progress on their research projects. Project topics ranged from studying control of postural stability to implementing new contact models. The album below contains pictures from the last day of the workshop. Visit the workshop's website to download slides, handouts, and examples from the workshop.
ADDITIONAL INTRODUCTORY WORKSHOPS
These workshops provide an introduction to OpenSim and how it can be used to address research and clinical questions. A hands-on approach is taken, so that by the end of the workshop, participants are comfortable using the basic functions of OpenSim.
November 16, 2010: Hands-on Tutorial: An Introduction to the OpenSim API, SIMPAR-2010
November 29, 2009: Musculoskeletal Modeling with OpenSim, Australasian Biomechanics Conference
July 5, 2009: XXII Congress of the International Society of Biomechanics
March 10, 2009: Gait & Clinical Movement Analysis Society (GCMAS) Annual Conference
- August 5-9, 2008: North American Congress on Biomechanics 2008 -workshop materials are available on SimTK at the bottom of the Downloads page.
- August 22, 2007: American Society of Biomechanics Conference 2007
ADDITIONAL ADVANCED USER AND DEVELOPER WORKSHOPS
These are an opportunity to learn more about how OpenSim works "under the hood" and get supervised, hands-on assistance with your specific research questions. The links below contain handouts, slides, and other materials from these workshops for advanced users and developers:
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