Neurotech for intuitive human-machine interactions and faster gaming

Preparing for an online start to the winter term: for more information. Waterloo's Engineering Bionics Lab is a hub of innovation for interfaces and technologies that augment human capabilities Ning Jiang has an early memory of visiting the hospital where his parents worked in China and seeing someone walking with the aid of a prosthetic. This experience and others he had as the son of two physicians, led Jiang to begin thinking how technology could be used for good. A professor in the Department of Systems Design Engineering, Jiang is fascinated with devices and technology that can enhance human health and the way people experience the world around them. Jiang is also the founder and director of the  Waterloo Engineering Bionics Lab , where new interfaces and technologies that augment human capabilities are designed and tested.  "My goal is to develop technologies that are easier to use and more accessible, technologies that will allow people to better interact with the external world, especially when there is a medical need but also for productivity and entertainment purposes."  - Advancing technology at the bionics lab . Operating since 2015, research at the Waterloo Engineering Bionics Lab has focused mainly on building assistive and rehabilitation devices for persons with disabilities, such as upper-limb prosthetics or brain-controlled devices that aid stroke victims' recovery. Research is also being done in other areas, such as health monitoring, a field of study in which devices provide feedback and data on human cardiac and cognitive stress levels and other measurements.