Development of an educational tool for building biomedical devices and analysing the collected data

Gelabert Xirinachs, Joana

Development of an educational tool for building biomedical devices and analysing the collected data

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Gelabert Xirinachs, J. Development of an educational tool for building biomedical devices and analysing the collected data. 2018. handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10230/44803

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Abstract

Biomedical Engineering is nowadays an emergent and rapidly growing knowledge field. Combining medicine and biology with technology can lead to the creation of lifechanging applications. The Do It Yourself (DIY) community is also taking part in this area of expertise and several biotechnological open-source projects can be found on the Internet. This thesis aims to provide a tool to allow even non experimented individuals to understand what a biomedical device is and how can it be built and has been developed in accordance with the open-source and communal mentality. This project performs a thorough development of the educational application of the tool. This tool is a program that facilitates High School teachers to introduce biomedical engineering and, specifically, biomedical devices to young learners. The project includes an interactive guide that explains how to connect different biosensors to an Arduino Uno board, the automatic creation of the code needed for the resulting device to function and an on-line platform to analyse the data recorded from the sensors stored in a database. In order for the project to become a fully functional educational tool, all the interfaces created are collected into a teaching unit, which is a lesson plan where all the activities to be performed in the classroom are explained. Its main objective is to provide the young students an appealing and interactive project proposal.