Project
Objectives and Description
VR2Market Closing Seminar
On the 26th of June, a closing seminar was organized to join all the project partners and share with the community the main achievements of the VR2Market project: Towards a Mobile Wearable Health Surveillance Monitoring Product for First Response and other Hazardous Professions. This event took place at INESC TEC facilities and had the presence
VR2 Market project discussion meeting
VR2 Market is coming to an end and we will have our final project review meeting on March 25-26th on Lisbon.
Field trials with Air Traffic Controllers
Field trials with Air Traffic Controllers were conduced during real air traffic control situations (November – December 2018).
Final trial with NAV
VR2Market system was tested during some experimental tests with air traffic controllers in Portugal (Rodrigues et al., 2018). This November VR2Market will make a complete deploy of the system during one week in real-life scenario at the control center of the Portuguese air space at NAV facilities. This deploy is going to be the last
Field Trials with ICNF 2018
During the summer of 2018, the VR2Market team has deployed the project technology on the field for some trials. The system was deployed within the “Associação Florestal de Entre o Douro e Tâmega” collecting more than 50 hours of data. The system was composed by the new environmental unit, named AmbiUnit (E.Spilmont et al., 2018)
Encontro Ciência 2018 – VR2Market present for the 3rd consecutive year
For the third consecutive year, VR2Market project was present at the biggest scientific event in Portugal – “Encontro Ciência 2018”. This event has the aim to discuss scientific advances in Portugal and had more than 4000 participants, including the presence of the European Commissioner of Research, Science and Innovation, Carlos Moedas, the President of Portugal,
VR2Market Project is distinguish with an Innovation honorable mention
The Project VR2Market was distinguished by “Exame Informática” with an award in the innovation category. This honorable mention was a Portuguese prize on a event named “Os Melhores do Portugal Tecnológico 2018” (The Best of the Technological Portugal). This price was received in a ceremony in Lisbon by Duarte Dias and Joana Paiva, both members of the
Presentation session at NAV, Lisbon
A presentation session took place on June 20, at NAV facilities in Lisbon. Preliminary results regarding the analysis of stress and fatigue among Air Traffic Controlers were presented to the Board and to all the participants involvedin the study. Further steps will involve the collaborative preparation (INESC TEC/NAV) of an ecological protocol to be implemeted in August,
VR2 Market Seminar at INESC TEC, Porto, Portugal
The VR2Market Seminar was held at INESC TEC on 7th May 2018. Aitor Coca, consultant of the VR2 Market project presented his work entitled: “Comparison of thermal manikin modelling and human subjects’ physiological responses under personal protective ensembles in the heat” Aitor Coca is a Senior Research Physiologist at Center for Disease Control and Prevention/
Oficial public presentation of CoLAB Forest WISE
On 16 March, the Collaborative Laboratory (CoLAB) ForestWISE, coordinated by INESC TEC, was presented publicly with the signature of a memorandum of understanding with the Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT) at the Forest Ciência Viva Centre in Proença-a-Nova. The event was attended by the Portuguese Prime Minister, António Costa, Minister of Science, Manuel Heitor,