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</font></p><p style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0px;text-align:center;font:15.0px Helvetica"><b>IEEE EMB/CAS/SMC Workshop on Brain-Machine-Body Interfaces</b></p>
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<p style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0px;text-align:center;font:13.0px Helvetica"><b>Monday August 27, 2012, San Diego, California, USA</b></p>
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<p style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0px;text-align:center;font:14.0px Helvetica"><b>CALL FOR PAPERS AND PARTICIPATION</b></p>
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<p style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0px;font:12.0px Helvetica">Brain-machine interfaces (BMI), or brain-computer interfaces (BCI), extend the capacity of the human brain in directly communicating and interacting with the environment. BMI/BCI research has traditionally focused on harnessing this capability for applications of neural prostheses in restoring communication and mobility of the motor impaired. A larger range of clinical applications are now emerging that extend the BMI/BCI and neural prostheses paradigms to brain-machine-body interfaces, harnessing benefits of neuromodulation and sensory feedback in interfacing across the central and peripheral nervous systems, facilitating closed-loop and minimally-invasive remediation of neurological and motor disorders, and more generally encompassing mind-body in health and wellbeing.</p>
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<p style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0px;font:12.0px Helvetica">This 3rd workshop in a series co-sponsored by the IEEE EMB, CAS, and SMC Societies highlights advances in brain-machine-body interface technology and its myriad applications promoting health and wellness that result from synergies between scientists, engineers, and clinical practitioners in this rapidly emerging field. Held on Monday August 27, 2012 in conjunction with EMBC 2012 (<a href="http://embc2012.embs.org" target="_blank">http://embc2012.embs.org</a>) at the San Diego Bayfront Hilton, the workshop combines invited lectures by leading experts with an exciting and highly interactive program of solicited contributions. A limited number of student and postdoctoral fellow travel grants will be provided, and best poster and demonstration awards will be conferred at the workshop.</p>
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<p style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0px;font:12.0px Helvetica">One-page papers for poster and spotlight presentations and live interactive demonstrations are solicited on theoretical foundations, technology advances, and clinical and health-promoting applications covering all aspects of brain-machine-body interfaces including (but not limited to):</p>
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<li style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0px;font:12.0px Helvetica">Brain-machine and brain-computer interfaces;</li>
<li style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0px;font:12.0px Helvetica">Closed-loop neuromodulation and deep-brain stimulation;</li>
<li style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0px;font:12.0px Helvetica">Remediation and rehabilitation of neurological and motor disorders;</li>
<li style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0px;font:12.0px Helvetica">Sensory feedback in motor prostheses;</li>
<li style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0px;font:12.0px Helvetica">Neuromorphic brain-machine and silicon-neuron interfaces;</li>
<li style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0px;font:12.0px Helvetica">Non-invasive and minimally invasive mobile brain/body functional imaging;</li>
<li style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0px;font:12.0px Helvetica">Transcranial magnetic and electrical stimulation;</li>
<li style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0px;font:12.0px Helvetica">Optogenetics for behaviorial neuroscience;</li>
<li style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0px;font:12.0px Helvetica">Neurofeedback and stimulation induced plasticity;</li>
<li style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0px;font:12.0px Helvetica">Electroacupuncture;</li>
<li style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0px;font:12.0px Helvetica">Body area networks for wireless health; etc.</li>
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<p style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0px;font:12.0px Helvetica">Submission instructions and more information are at the workshop URL:</p>
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<p style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0px;font:12.0px Helvetica"><b>KEY DATES:</b></p>
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<p style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0px;font:12.0px Helvetica">July 15, 2012: Deadline for submission of one-page papers</p>
<p style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0px;font:12.0px Helvetica">July 25, 2012: Notification of acceptance</p>
<p style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0px;font:12.0px Helvetica">August 27, 2012: Workshop, San Diego Bayfront Hilton</p>
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<p style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0px;font:12.0px Helvetica"><b>CONTACT:</b></p>
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<p style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0px;font:12.0px Helvetica"><i>Workshop Chair:</i></p>
<p style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0px;font:12.0px Helvetica">Gert Cauwenberghs, UC San Diego, USA, <a href="mailto:gert@ucsd.edu" target="_blank">gert@ucsd.edu</a></p>
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<p style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0px;font:12.0px Helvetica"><i>Workshop Co-Chairs:</i></p>
<p style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0px;font:12.0px Helvetica">Maysam Ghovanloo, Georgia Tech, USA, <a href="mailto:mgh@gatech.edu" target="_blank">mgh@gatech.edu</a></p>
<p style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0px;font:12.0px Helvetica">José del R. Millán, EPFL, Switzerland, <a href="mailto:jose.millan@epfl.ch" target="_blank">jose.millan@epfl.ch</a></p>
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<p style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0px;font:12.0px Helvetica"><i>Organizing Committee:</i></p>
<p style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0px;font:12.0px Helvetica">Metin Akay, Univ. of Houston, USA</p>
<p style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0px;font:12.0px Helvetica">Bin He, Univ. of Minnesota, USA</p>
<p style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0px;font:12.0px Helvetica">Paul Sajda, Columbia Univ., USA</p>
<p style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0px;font:12.0px Helvetica">Mohamad Sawan, Ecole Polytechnique de Montréal, Canada</p>
<p style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0px;font:12.0px Helvetica">Nitish Thakor, Johns Hopkins Univ., USA; National Univ. of Singapore</p>
<p style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0px;font:12.0px Helvetica">James Weiland, Univ. of Southern California, USA</p><div><br></div>
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