Debates
”We are very pleased to announce several scientific debates as part of the conference scientific program, pertaining to controversial topics in biomechanics research. Each debate will be 60 minutes, with speakers posing differing views on a topic, and a moderator to lead the discussion and take questions from the audience. All debates will be streamed live according to the conference program.
There may be more debates announced. Please check back again for updated information. Titles are preliminary.”
Debate: The Distribution Problem in Biomechanics and Motor Control: How can we measure, predict and validate in vivo muscle forces?
13:45 – 14:45 Monday 26 July
Speaker:
Ton van den Bogert, Cleveland State University (USA)
– (experimental and theoretical)
Speaker:
Friedl de Groote, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Belgium)
– (theoretical)
Speaker:
Walter Herzog, University of Calgary (Canada)
– (experimental)
Moderator:
Lanie Gutierrez-Farewik, KTH MoveAbility Lab (Sweden)
Debate: Markerless vs. Marker-Based Motion Capture – Is Marker-Based the Floppy Disk of Motion Capture?
13:45 – 14:45 Monday 26 July
Speaker:
Julie Stebbins, Oxford Gait Laboratory, Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre (UK)
Speaker:
Kevin Deluzio, Professor, Queen’s University, Ontario, CA
Moderator:
Michael Rainbow, Assoc. Professsor, Queen’s University, Ontario, CA
Debate: Peer review in science
16:00 – 17:00 Tuesday 27 July
Speaker:
Benno Nigg Founder and Chief Science Officer
Speaker:
Walter Herzog, University of Calgary (Canada)
Moderator:
Katherine Boyer, University of Massachusetts Amherst (USA)
Debate: Biorobotics — How Biology will inform the next-gen machines
16:00 – 17:00 Tuesday 27 July
Question: “Do we need to be biologically faithful to do useful biorobotics?”
Speaker:
Auke Ijspeert, EFPL (Lausanne, Switzerland)
Speaker:
Yulia Sandamirskaya, University of Zurich and ETH (Switzerland)
Moderator:
Francisco Valero-Cuevas, University of Southern Californa (USA)
Debate: Computational approaches to studying locomotor disorders: MSM vs. AI
09:00 – 10:00 Wednesday 28 July
Speaker:
David Lloyd, Griffith University (Australia)
Speaker:
Eni Halilaj, Carnegie Mellon University (USA)
Moderator:
Ilse Jonkers, University of Leuven (Belgium)
Congress Secretariat
Sweden MEETX AB is the conference bureau handling the congress secretariat for ISB 2021.
E-mail: isb2021@meetx.se
Phone: +46 31 708 86 90
