2007 Conference Award Winners : :
Student Poster Awards went to:
Aftab Patla Award for Innovation: Veronica Naing, Simon Frasier University, Canada
Award 1: Claire Honeycutt, Georgia Tech, Atlanta Georgia
Award 2: Marleen van der Linden, Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
Honorable Mentions:
Leor Gruendlinger, Israel
Justin Davis, California
Martin Gerin-Lajoie, Canada
EMG Award went to:
Dr. Antonio Nardone
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Poster Size Information ::
The USEABLE portion of the poster board is 44 inches x 72 inches.
The dimensions for the poster boards are as follows:
- floor to the bottom of the board is 34.5"
- floor to the top of the board is 82"
- Framework is 1.75"
- The board itself is 4' High x8' Wide
- Weight is 52lbs
- Width of the legs are 1.5 inches
For more information contact Maureen Cartier
DELSYS Award Information ::
A DELSYS Award was given to the best EMG presentation at the ISPGR 2007 meeting
Prize ($4,000 value) :
- DELSYS Bagnoli 2-channel EMG system
- EMGworks software
- Desktop AD card
Award Eligibility :
- The prize will be assigned to any author of a Paper or Poster presentation. The first author must make the presentation.
- Current employees and consultants of DELSYS, as well as their families, are excluded from the competition.
Award Scoring :
- A prize committee will review all candidate abstracts submitted to the conference.
- The three members of the prize committee will attend all candidate presentations and vote on each. The committee members will not communicate their vote or impressions at any time, other than by secret ballot.
- Each presentation will be scored on a scale of 0 to 10, with 10 being the highest grade. The score of ten (10) possible points will be awarded as follows:
- Novelty: 0-5 Points
- Clarity: 0-3 Points
- Persuasiveness: 0-2 Points
- The presentation receiving the highest combined score from all 3 committee members will be the winner.
- In the event of a tie, the prize committee members will enter into a debate, and by their own rules will choose a single winner from the tied candidates.
Award Presention :
- The winners of the award will be announced at the banquet dinner on Wednesday evening, July 18th at the Closing Reception.
Committee Members :
- Jane Macpherson, PhD
- John Allum, PhD
- Clive Pai, PhD