Scientific Staff: motivated software/web developer

Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium

Updated: 2 months ago

The Faculty of Engineering, Department Elektronica en informatica, research group Electronics and Informatics: Research – Development - Innovation, is looking for a predoctoral researcher. 

More concretely your work package contains: 

This position is part of the project "Targeting muscle strength loss due to hospitalization in older adults by blood-flow restriction combined with an EMG-driven serious game: GHOSTLY+", funded by the Research Foundation – Flanders (FWO). This Applied Biomedical Research (TBM) project is coordinated by an interdisciplinary team led by Prof. Eva Swinnen and Prof. David Beckwée, in collaboration with Prof. Bart Jansen.

The team will investigate a promising solution combining blood flow restriction (BFR) with an electromyography (EMG)-driven serious game. This multicenter randomized trial will be conducted in collaboration with UZBrussel, UAntwerpen/UZA, and KULeuven.

We are looking for a motivated software/web developer to contribute to the execution of this project. With the Electronics and Informatics Research Group (ETRO) and in particular with the biomedical engineering team, we are dedicated to advancing scientific knowledge and making a significant impact in the field of rehabilitation technology and artificial intelligence and signal processing in support of it.

In the project, you will develop an online web-based dashboard for the patients and therapists to follow up the game-based rehabilitation. The patient will perform gamified rehabilitation exercises on a tablet. The details of each session are uploaded to a centralized database and the therapists and patients can follow their progress online in a dashboard.

Your role

  • Propose, develop, and deploy an overall design for a web dashboard for medical data storage and presentation – including frontend, backend, and database.
  • Close collaboration with team members working on the serious game to ensure compatibility, e.g. data storage, exchange
  • Assist in the integration and testing of the whole system
  • Communication with partners from the medical side to ensure the proposed solution reflects their needs, in terms of presentation, accessibility, security etc.

For this function, our Brussels Humanities, Sciences & Engineering Campus (Elsene) will serve as your home base. 


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