{"62072":{"#nid":"62072","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Tongue Drive System Team Wins People\u2019s Choice Honors at 2010 da Vinci Awards","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EChosen from a field of 17 finalists, Maysam\nGhovanloo and his research team in the GT-Bionics Lab won the inaugural \u201cLeo\u201d\nPeople\u2019s Choice Award at the 2010 da Vinci Awards, held last month at the Henry\nFord Museum in Dearborn, Michigan.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EA finalist in the\nprosthetics\/orthotics\/controls category, Ghovanloo and his team from Georgia Tech\nreceived the highest number of votes for their YouTube video about their work\non the Tongue Drive System, an\u0026nbsp;assistive technology that enables\nindividuals with high-level spinal cord injuries to maneuver a powered\nwheelchair or control a mouse cursor using simple tongue movements. The\nresearch team is currently preparing for their second round of clinical trials\non the Tongue Drive System, which will be conducted at the Shepherd Center in\nAtlanta and the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAn assistant\nprofessor in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Ghovanloo specializes\nin biomedical device development. His main\ngoal for participating in this competition was to promote the use of the most\nadvanced microelectronics technologies in the field of assistive devices and\nrehabilitation engineering. The Tongue Drive System utilizes the latest in\nmagnetic sensing technology combined with ultra-low power radio frequency\ntransceivers, advanced signal processing algorithms, and smartphones.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cSometimes when you ask our students\nabout assistive devices, the first things that come to their minds are their\ngrandma\u2019s cane or the old manual wheelchair that they once saw at a hospital,\u201d Ghovanloo\nsaid. \u201cThe Tongue Drive System draws a totally different picture in the\nstudents\u2019 minds about assistive technologies and their associated field as a\nwhole. Whenever I get a chance, I never hesitate to remind my students that\nthere are very few other areas in engineering in which they can leave such a\ngreat impact in a lives of a group of human beings.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe da Vinci Awards is a prestigious\ninternational forum that recognizes the latest developments and research in\nadaptive and assistive technologies that enable equal access and opportunity\nfor all people, regardless of ability. Finalists representing the U.S., Canada,\nand Denmark were chosen from entries received from around the world. The awards\nwere created by and benefit the National Multiple Sclerosis (MS) Society\u0027s\nMichigan Chapter.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe Tongue Drive System video may be\nviewed at\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/bit.ly\/tonguedrive\u0022\u003Ehttp:\/\/bit.ly\/tonguedrive\u003C\/a\u003E. \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EChosen from a field of 17 finalists, Maysam Ghovanloo and his research team in the GT-Bionics Lab won the inaugural \u201cLeo\u201d People\u2019s Choice Award at the 2010 da Vinci Awards, held last month at the Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, Michigan.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Assistive technology developed by Maysam Ghovanloo and his research team in the GT-Bionics Lab"}],"uid":"15436","created_gmt":"2010-10-11 17:03:42","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:07:34","author":"Automator","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2010-10-11T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2010-10-11T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"62075":{"id":"62075","type":"image","title":"Maysam Ghovanloo and Jeonghee Kim","body":null,"created":"1449176337","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 20:58:57","changed":"1475894539","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:42:19","alt":"Maysam Ghovanloo and Jeonghee Kim","file":{"fid":"191385","name":"PHS_3395.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/PHS_3395_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/PHS_3395_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":2466842,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/PHS_3395_0.jpg?itok=UnHMNI7O"}},"62076":{"id":"62076","type":"image","title":"Emery King, Maysam Ghovanloo and Jeonghee Kim","body":null,"created":"1449176337","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 20:58:57","changed":"1475894539","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:42:19","alt":"Emery King, Maysam Ghovanloo and Jeonghee Kim","file":{"fid":"191386","name":"PHS_3547.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/PHS_3547_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/PHS_3547_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":2081673,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/PHS_3547_0.jpg?itok=fiUYsa7V"}}},"media_ids":["62075","62076"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.ece.gatech.edu\/research\/labs\/gt-bionics\/","title":"Maysam Ghovanloo"}],"groups":[{"id":"1317","name":"News Briefs"}],"categories":[{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"},{"id":"145","name":"Engineering"}],"keywords":[{"id":"4369","name":"assistive technology"},{"id":"358","name":"CATEA"},{"id":"10634","name":"da vinci awards"},{"id":"2435","name":"ECE"},{"id":"8782","name":"Tongue Drive System"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:jackie.nemeth@ece.gatech.edu\u0022\u003EJackie Nemeth\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESchool of Electrical and Computer Engineering\u003Cbr \/\u003E404-894-2906\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}