Initially the meeting commenced with a presentation by Yasunori Kimura, Ph.D. who is the President and CEO of the Laboratories. He went through the goals and aspirations of the laboratories and the areas that they specialize in. I am waiting on some literature and information that is being forward to me of the topics we covered.
After Ysunori, Hideaki Tanioka, Ph.D. a Senior Software Engineer gave a presentation of the work he has been involved with mobile phones. He was demonstrating with a Fujitsu phone which had multiple sensors built into the phone. Also a number interactive applications which utilised those sensors. He demonstrated a Posture program which could assess your mobility and posture and then based on a number of exercises, basic where while holding the phone in a fixed position you then went through a number of physical flexibility exercises. Upon completing these exercises it then gave the user an assessment and proposed exercises to improve or correct posture. There were a number of these applications utilising the sensors of the phone and then providing analysis of the results. There were applications for improving your golf swing. Again the user goes through a number of swing exercises with the phone strapped on their back of their belt. After those exercises the phone is again able to give analysis and assistance on that swing.
One of the applications I suggested was with disable or elderly people where based on a number of business rules the phone could automatically contact assistance to support the person.
The next demonstration was by Matthew DePetro. He gave a demonstrations of the newly release Robot Teddy.
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| Robot Teddy |
The area that I felt was with child interviews and talking with children who require assistance to open up. Check out the video and see what you think.
This teddy had sensors all over its body a camera in its nose with face recognition software. Over a period of time this teddy interacts with the subject within its gaze.
After this demo Ajay Chander a Senior Researcher in Health Care Innovations showed me the work he has been working on with sensors and a mini computer the size of your palm called Sprout. This is a small computer with a Linux operating system with a web server and wireless and blue tooth capability. They are designing on the concept of open source being sensor independent so designed to work with any. The idea of the Sprout is compile and time stamp the data then provide the analytics's to combine and re-constitute that data to be read in other combinations.
Many of the organisations provide sensors to capture data for heart beat, or breathing, or stress measurements but no-one at the moment is providing the ability to capture all the different data streams and then aggregates them to be seen from other perspectives. After that demonstration we went to lunch, finding a very nice Indian restaurant.
After this I then headed back towards San Francisco to visit Oracle.
The second building on the left with the Oracle name was where I went to 3pm to visit Jatin Thaker, Director, User Experience Oracle Applications User Experience. Jatin gave me a presentation on the ideology that Oracle is work to in the development and creation of their software and tools.
It was a good feeling of confirmation as to their model for their software development life cycle. Is very close to what I have been using for many years. The key part being that until the problem is understood and a solution design and prototyped there is no code developed. The large part of the process is understand and design and sign off before any development is done.
A lot of the style of tools that will be coming down the line with Oracle, Fusion, PeopleTools and PeopleSoft will have these type of things embedded.
Jatin then gave me a demonstration of the eye tracking screen. This tool is capable of providing considerable information to designers and developers of software. I would track the users eye movement based on a number of exercises. One of the exercises was to location the name of the manager on the screen of a persons record. It was made up of a number of panel and I looked all over to locations where I thought that information might be. From there once it was completed we were able to see where I was looking and when I found the answer. Then we could switch on other users and then see the correlation between my results and others with multiple results they can then blend them into a head map and see over all what all the users were doing on the screen. The information is in-valuable and can lead to better understand how a user would work and improve the design based on the user not the developer.
This tool is now quite an acceptable price which looks to be around $25-30,000.
If Finished up around 4:30pm and then headed back to my residents. After a while I then went for a drive up into the hill over looking Palo Alto and after a while headed into San Francisco City to see the Golden Gate Bridge at sunset then home.
After this demo Ajay Chander a Senior Researcher in Health Care Innovations showed me the work he has been working on with sensors and a mini computer the size of your palm called Sprout. This is a small computer with a Linux operating system with a web server and wireless and blue tooth capability. They are designing on the concept of open source being sensor independent so designed to work with any. The idea of the Sprout is compile and time stamp the data then provide the analytics's to combine and re-constitute that data to be read in other combinations.
Many of the organisations provide sensors to capture data for heart beat, or breathing, or stress measurements but no-one at the moment is providing the ability to capture all the different data streams and then aggregates them to be seen from other perspectives. After that demonstration we went to lunch, finding a very nice Indian restaurant.
After this I then headed back towards San Francisco to visit Oracle.
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| Oracle Head Office |
It was a good feeling of confirmation as to their model for their software development life cycle. Is very close to what I have been using for many years. The key part being that until the problem is understood and a solution design and prototyped there is no code developed. The large part of the process is understand and design and sign off before any development is done.
A lot of the style of tools that will be coming down the line with Oracle, Fusion, PeopleTools and PeopleSoft will have these type of things embedded.
Jatin then gave me a demonstration of the eye tracking screen. This tool is capable of providing considerable information to designers and developers of software. I would track the users eye movement based on a number of exercises. One of the exercises was to location the name of the manager on the screen of a persons record. It was made up of a number of panel and I looked all over to locations where I thought that information might be. From there once it was completed we were able to see where I was looking and when I found the answer. Then we could switch on other users and then see the correlation between my results and others with multiple results they can then blend them into a head map and see over all what all the users were doing on the screen. The information is in-valuable and can lead to better understand how a user would work and improve the design based on the user not the developer.
This tool is now quite an acceptable price which looks to be around $25-30,000.
If Finished up around 4:30pm and then headed back to my residents. After a while I then went for a drive up into the hill over looking Palo Alto and after a while headed into San Francisco City to see the Golden Gate Bridge at sunset then home.
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| Over Looking Palo Alto |
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| Golden Gate at Sunset - (Not the best photo) |
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