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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

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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)

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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,

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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/

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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,

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