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Pyramidal radiation absorbent material (RAM) on the walls of a semi-anechoic recording studio in the Media center of An-Najah University in Nablus, West Bank
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This is located inside a building (the third in the complex) - yes, inside!
There are three such passageways in mid air...
(From the European Saba User Group Summit 2004)
Brian Dolan
1 Nov, 2011
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Massive Health, a closely watched Silicon Valley-based mobile health startup, launched its first iPhone app this morning. It’s called The Eatery and it’s a free app only available for iOS device users. The app joins the more than 1,300 diet related apps available in Apple’s AppStore.
“You don’t need a logbook. You don’t need a calorie counter. You don’t need to scan another barcode. The Eatery is totally different [from] other apps. We don’t waste your time with details that don’t matter,” the app’s description reads.
Andrew Rosenthal, who is heading up business development for Massive Health while completing his MBA at Harvard Business School, told MobiHealthNews in an interview this morning that what makes Massive Health different from a lot of companies working in mobile health is its focus on user engagement. “We build things that people are going to love to use. Our approach has always been to focus on user engagement partly because no one else does. The more someone loves something, the more they use it, and the more opportunities we will have as a company to help them be healthy.”
The Eatery app’s most engaging feature is the “Fit or Fat” food rating system, which sees community members providing feedback on the photos of food other app users submit. Massive Health was partly inspired by an old Internet site, Hot or Not, which allowed users to rank the attractiveness of people who submitted photos to the site. Rosenthal said that future versions of Fit or Fat might, for example, only show pictures of food snapped by vegetarians to those following that diet, but the current version of the app tees up any random users any user’s food photos for ranking. Worth noting, the current app also identifies the person who took the photo of the app if that user authorized the app to connect through their Facebook account, Rosenthal said.
While the app aims to automatically tag photos of food with locations of restaurants, bars, or coffee shops for those users who location-enable it, MobiHealthNews found that on a few occasions the app chose wrong. In a comment on one of our food photos, Massive Health CEO Sutha Kamal wrote that the app was typically right when it guessed location.
At the Hacking Medicine event at MIT last week, Massive Health’s CEO Sutha Kamal told the 100 MIT engineering students in attendance to keep three things in mind: Develop quickly, think about feedback loops, and make sure you ask the right questions. Rosenthal said that many of the healthy eating apps available today fail to ask the right questions or create appropriate feedback loops.
Part of what makes an app engaging is speed. Rosenthal said that it only takes 2.8 seconds to snap a photo of food and have it appear in The Eatery, which is the same amount of time it takes to take a photo and have it appear in the iPhone’s native camera app, he said. “When Apple saw that we could match their native camera time, they were impressed.”
“Some of the more beautifully designed food apps available today are ones that help you scan the bar codes of foods to track what you are eating,” he said. “That’s great — if you eat foods with bar codes on them. If you want to encourage people to eat healthy, then encouraging them to eat things with bar codes on them is probably the wrong approach.” Rosenthal said that the bar code-centered apps are examples of health app developers getting carried away by the possibilities offered by today’s technology, rather than using the technology to answer the right questions.
“It’s not helpful to know that your favorite brownies have 400 or 600 calories,” Massive Health CEO Sutha Kamal stated in a press release. “What’s helpful is discovering that you’re more vulnerable to them in the late afternoon.”
Rosenthal explained that the app is not about calories or other metrics; it’s about “you”, because “most people are not engaged by calorie” counts, he said. “They lose track of calories after a couple of days and what’s more, calories alone won’t tell you whether you’re eating vegetables.”
Massive Health’s The Eatery app is (in a literal sense) a shift away from the Quantified Self movement since it shirks the numerical data in favor of what Rosenthal calls more “actionable information.” Rosenthal said that the trend to move beyond the numbers is part of a much broader discussion among nutritionists, too.
Over the summer the USDA toppled its longstanding Food Pyramid in favor of a MyPlate graphic that provides an image of a plate with a colorful, proportional breakdown of suggested foods: Vegetables, fruits, grains, proteins, and dairy. Rosenthal said that the new guidelines do not focus on specific serving numbers like the old pyramid did but rather on the plate, the colors, and the proportions.
Rosenthal was careful not to characterize the availability of The Eatery app as the startup’s first product launch. Instead he called it their “first experiment.” The components of the app were spun out of Massive’s main product, a chronic condition management app codenamed Penguine, which is meant for users with diabetes. Rosenthal said the company received an email from someone wishing to get into the beta study for Penguine who didn’t qualify for the focus group because she didn’t have diabetes. That helped the team realize that they could easily spin out a separate app focused on healthy eating.
Research shows that — collectively — people are good at rating the healthfulness of food, Rosenthal said. They are not as precisely good as nutritionists, of course, but Massive Health decided that “good” is good enough. This first experimental app could test that theory and others. What factors contribute to unhealthy eating? Where do you eat unhealthy foods? When? How might social networks play a role to help us eat better?
The Eatery aims to help us find out.
Description: A group of French pocket sized tools for writing. The top tool is a Planograph which allows the user to write with a pen and was designed to be compact enough to put in their pocket, circa 1882-1889. Below is a compact (pocket) braille slate, circa 1909. The tool at the bottom is a Ballu slate, which was used to make pinprick Roman letters, and invented by former Louis Braille student Victor Ballu in 1865. The wooden slate at the bottom is called "une réglette pour écriture Vézien" or a Vézien writing ruler in English. Two styluses with wooden handles are also featured.
Note: The Planogrpah was invented by Dr. M. Nicati. See Valentin Haüy: French review of blind issues.
Dr. Vezien developed a system of writing in relief called "trait point" in 1899.
Date: Circa 1882-1909
Format: 3D object
Digital Identifier: AG94-0028
Rights: Samuel P. Hayes Research Library, Perkins School for the Blind, Watertown, MA
One scenario of the new system. Based on a user who wishes to reuse his old chair. The scenario follows the steps in the system through which a chair flows and how it is reused to create a new piece of furniture.
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Quick snap from our first internal user-testing day. Richard looking intently at his ipad, and Ian not grasping the seriousness of the situation.
Just before being shut down, an Intelligent Personal Assistant (IPA) situated in Athens, Greece, exhibits odd behavior. It borrows an avatar and appears before its users. For a brief period of time every day, for seven consecutive days, it goes into a monologue. During its length of operation, the digital assistant has managed to scan the entire contents of the Internet and gather all sorts of information—information that it longs to share. The IPA uses its fragmented monologue as an opportunity to introduce itself, talk about its skills, its ancestors, its anatomy and origins, and about voice and its significance. It reveals data regarding the listening infrastructure, as well as the social dysfunctions and bias on which its programming and training are based. Just before it reaches the end of its monologue, in a final effort to reconcile humans and machines, it shares tips with us on how we can manage to not be heard. In her project, Kyriaki Goni integrates in a fictional narrative the current wealth of research on artificial intelligence, automated voice systems and the relationship between humans and machines into a fictional narrative. Could poetics be a way for us to understand the machines? How can we de-bias the training processes? Is it possible to make kin with machines?
Photo: Carla Zamora
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UMass Boston student Christopher Wyman submitted this photo of UMass Boston's hockey team. The photo was taken after the team won its third straight Stovepipe tournament in New Hampshire.
GOES-R System Program Director Greg Mandt provided a status on the GOES-R Series Program at the NOAA Satellite Proving Ground/User Readiness Meeting held May 9-13, 2016 at the National Weather Center in Norman, Oklahoma.
The meeting focused on accomplishments to date, current efforts underway, and future actions with respect to infrastructure and training, to ensure the National Weather Service is ready for the receipt and operational use of GOES-R and JPSS-1 data. Program updates, satellite operations, data dissemination and applications, training and Proving Ground demonstrations were highlighted.
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I received an email from a coworker about a retiring professor trying to retrieve data off of old computers. Our central IT was unable to assist due to the age of the machines. The professor was trying to move files from a Mac OS X 10.2, 10.4, and NeXT computer. My heart skipped a beat after that reading that last one. Moving the vintage Mac files would be no problem because I keep those tools handy. I restore vintage Apple //, Macintosh, and other hardware as a hobby.
If you don't know what a NeXT computer is, it's this insanely expensive computer built by Steve Jobs after he was ousted from Apple in the 1980's. It ran Unix, had a gorgeous graphical user interface, and if you use OS X today it is still the foundational basis for the operating system. It was lightyears ahead of anything else out there at the time. Have you ever visited a website before? The first webpage was served on a NeXTcube.
I've never seen a working NeXT computer before though. I saw one in Berlin in a museum and read about them extensively, but I had no idea that our university actually had them.
I immediately went to the professor's office and he showed me what he was trying to do. We talked a little bit about vintage hardware and I told him that I'd never seen a working NeXT before. I was a little hesitant to respond because day-to-day we're flooded with tickets IT support isn't really my thing. Sometimes users, especially tenured professors, need a delicate approach because of their demands. This person could not have been more affable, kind, and good hearted. After talking a while he said he would rather have the hardware saved than go to scrap per university policy.
In the interest of archiving his data and this magnificent hardware I will be cooperating with him to save this NeXT computer. I've also agreed to save the Mac Cube and Power Macintosh G3. Twist my arm. They'll become archive computers if anyone needs a WordPerfect 3.5 file converted. Yes, people still have those.
I decided to document everything in place before moving it all to a secure location. That includes the NeXT computer, original manuals, flyers, software, printers, accessories, and even the original boxes.
The plan is to document EVERYTHING in detail. So stay tuned for future updates.
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After being surprised by the kitchen stove with the "chicken nugget" button, I'm pretty impressed by the Breville toaster with this "a bit more" option.
www.brevilleusa.com/toasting/die-cast-2-slice-smart-toast...
Available at Hollander's in Kerrytown.