Ruth West, associate professor and director of xREZ Art + Science Lab, is part of a group that received a seed grant from the National Academies Keck Futures Initiative to create health sensors people can wear or swallow.

The group will spend the next two years researching how bodily systems "talk" to each other with the goal of developing wearable external and internal sensor arrays.

West will contribute her expertise in blending disciplines in art and science, including data visualization, sonification and human-computer interaction and design.