Pierre Barralon

Master of Science in Signal/Image Processing and Telecommunications from the National Polytechnic Institute of Grenoble (France) and PhD from Joseph Fourier University, Grenoble (France), in Home Monitoring Systems and Data Fusion for the Independent Living of the Elderly. Post-doctoral researcher at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver (Canada) in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (2005-2007) designing and evaluating different tactile feedback devices in different parts of the body used by anesthesiologists during surgical operations. In 2008 he joined Tecnalia's Health Division to work on the integration of kinematic and physiological sensor technologies applied in the fields of both postural control and persuasive interaction. He has published several ISI publications, a patent ("Method and System For Functional Balance Assessment". Publication number: EP3017761 A1) and participation in various European projects among which it is worth mentioning: ACTIVAGE H2020-IOT-2016 [2017-2020], EUROBENCH H2020-ICT-2017-1 [2018-2021], BALANCE SHEET FP7-ICT-2011-9 [2013-2017], SARAFun H2020-ICT-2014-1 [2015-2018], AHEAD AAL-2012-5 [2013-2016], WITH-ME ARTEMIS JU 2012-1 [2013-2016].