2008 USC Body Computing Slam: Presentation 1

The 2008 University of Southern California Body Computing Conference was held at USC on October 24, 2008, hosted by Leslie Saxon, chief of the Division of Cardiovascular Medicine at the Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California.

The first presentation, The Hall of Fragment, was made by Tucker Viemeister, lab chief at Rockwell Group, who presented a recent sensory-immersion project he had worked on for the Venice Architecture Biennial as a potential form of therapy for patients, or even as a respite for weary travelers.

Dr. Saxon emceed the session. Judges were Francis Pereira, director of industry research at the USC Institute for Communications Technology and Management; John Lalonde, vice president of Latitude Research & Development at Boston Scientific CRM;: Donald Jones, vice president for business development at Qualcomm, Inc.; Jonathan Lash, director of the Alfred E. Mann Institute for Biomedical Engineering at USC; and Neil Eigler, senior vice president of CRMD Technology Incubation at St. Jude Medical.

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