Title :
Issues in remote laboratory developments for biomedical engineering education
Author :
Carla Barros;Celina Pinto Leão;Filomena Soares;Graça Minas;José Machado
Author_Institution :
Department of Production and Systems, School of Engineering of University of Minho, Centro ALGORITMI, Guimarã
Abstract :
In engineering and sciences education, the laboratorial experiment is an important component of the learning process. The recurrent or intensive use of laboratories leads to the improvement of students´ skills. Nevertheless, the need of laboratorial practice has led to the development of innovative solutions: the remote labs. This work intends to discuss the preliminaries developments of a new remote laboratory for biomedical engineering courses: Remote Physiological System (RePhyS) laboratory. LabVIEW was the tool used for both the device handling (control and configuration) and the web platform´s deployment. However it could be incompatible with some web browsers. To overcome this limitation, the team explores news user-side solutions. With this innovative teaching/learning tool, the students should be able to recognize the biosignals and the acquisition methods in an intuitive and easy way, allowing them to improve their knowledge.
Keywords :
"Remote laboratories","Educational institutions","Java","Physiology","Browsers","Biomedical engineering"
Conference_Titel :
Interactive Collaborative Learning (ICL), 2013 International Conference on
DOI :
10.1109/ICL.2013.6644585