January 2012
17 posts
Mid-Week Update
We have been hard at work (I know I’m repeating myself) but all of our work is starting to come together and the results are pretty cool. We have the system essentially working completely as planned. The doctors have also been working hard to get props (and a real cardiac rehab patient) lined up for our promo video. To get into a bit of tech detail, I’ll describe the application...
Monday Summary
Monday was a long day that saw a lot of things accomplished and today is shaping up the same way. We’ve gotten a lot done and are really getting into the detail work at this point.
Highlights of the current status:
Our central processing component is now accepting connections from all the different components and receiving/broadcasting streamed data to each.
We have documented our...
Weekend Summary
The weekend isn’t over yet and we’re still doing some coding, but I thought I’d take a minute out to update our status. All of the major components are working with baseline functionality, with the remaining work involving the extension of some APIs to store the data we’d like to record, fine-tuning the system, mapping in the algorithms to process both the motion data from...
Day 3
There’s not too much to report from day 3. Not that we didn’t make progress, but it was more iterative over what was done yesterday.
The doctors rejoined us and tracked down a lot of good documentation for us. We’ll use that to do the medical analysis so we can provide real-time feedback to the rehab patients through the Unity interface. The dev team stayed on track, with all...
Day 2 Summary
I posted some pictures of the New Media Lab below so you can get a sense of how things are set up here. Open space, windows, and whiteboards everywhere.
As for the project today we got into the actual work. The doctors on our team were busy being doctors, so it was mainly our group of 5 devs modeling out our system, figuring out our resources, and taking on tasks. We got our custom character...
Opening Day Thoughts
So the most interesting thing to me about the first day was to see which themes emerged on the different projects. The most common conversations, by far, revolved around stickyness and usability. For the software industry, these are pretty standard concepts, but from the conversations today it seems like these are topics that have been somewhat ignored in the health industry.
None of the projects...
Opening Day
Today was a great opening day for the event. We grabbed breakfast, broke out into our teams, discussed our projects, and then presented them for the group to collaborate and brainstorm. I’ll run through each project really quickly, then add another post to talk about my overall impressions.
The first group that presented talked about a Pain Management project. Here is a description of their...
Health and Wellness Innovation 2012 →
Here’s the homepage of Health and Wellness Innovation 2012. Check out the projects page to see some of the things we’ll be trying to create.
