Clear and simple visualizations of biomechanical data could improve rehabilitation after a stroke, accelerate the recovery from joint replacements, and prevent older people from falling, according to United Kingdom researchers. University of Strathclyde professor Philip Rowe is leading an initiative to develop bespoke software for capturing biomechanical data and presenting it in a way that would assist health care professionals in their effort to communicate movement information to patients. Currently, movement information is only available in graphical, tabular, or numerical form. The software would work with Strathclyde’s specialist motion analysis system and portable motion sensors. “By using animation, we can enable patients to visualize a movement, and how it affects their body,” Rowe says.
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Tomorrow’s Internet-connected cars could be vulnerable to hackers in the way computers are today, warn researchers at the University of Washington (UW) and the University of California, San Diego (UCSD). During a recent test, the researchers were able to remotely control a car’s braking and other functions. “We demonstrate the ability to adversarially control a wide range of automotive functions and completely ignore driver input–including disabling the brakes, selectively braking individual wheels on demand, stopping the engine, and so on,” the researchers write. The researchers were also able to insert malicious software into the car and then erase any evidence of tampering. “Taken together, ubiquitous computer control, distributed internal connectivity, and telematics interfaces increasingly combine to provide an application software platform for external network access,” write the researchers.
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