Health and Wellness Innovation
John Moore MD, Sai Moturu, Nadav Aharony, Clark Freifeld
Thu Jan 7, 11am-06:00pm, E14-244, hack-a-thon
Tue, Thu, Jan 12, 14, 19, 21, 26, 01-03:00pm, E14-244
Thu Jan 28, 01-03:00pm, E14-244, final presentations
No limit but advance sign up required (see contact below)
Signup by: 05-Jan-2010
Participants requested to attend all sessions (non-series)
Prereq: No prerequisites. Only a desire to build solutions.
The first meeting on 1/7/10 will be a fun and hands-on hack-a-thon from 11am to 6pm. Lunch and dinner will be provided.
As the world’s population ages and the burden of chronic disease grows, there is an outstanding need for technology not only to improve the delivery of healthcare but also to help individuals and communities take greater control of their own health and wellness.
This IAP activity aims to mentor the development of working prototypes of health empowerment tools. Students will be encouraged to innovate in the areas of chronic disease management, disease prevention, healthy habit formation, and psychological and social wellness. Mentoring from patients, technologists, and clinicians will be provided as will fun tools such as Android phones, health sensors, and avatars.
Web: http://newmed.media.mit.edu/projects/index.php?view=collaborhythm
Contact: John Moore MD, E14-274G, (856) 520-1493, jom@mit.edu
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How Will We Pay for Things in the Future?
Kwan Hong Lee
Thu Jan 14, 10am-06:30pm, E14-526
Wed Jan 27, 03-05:00pm, E14-526
No limit but advance sign up required (see contact below)
Signup by: 13-Jan-2010
Participants requested to attend all sessions (non-series)
The payment landscape has been rapidly changing in recent years with many potential disruptions on the horizon. Large financial institutions still dominate the landscape with little disintermediation, but are vulnerable. PayPal has become the standard in online transactions and payment services and now threatens to invade the physical world. Existing large institution infrastructures neither provide for rapid adaptation to these market changes nor rapid adaptation to customer requirements as they have all grown through mergers & acquisitions. And emerging technology is readily available to precipitate the paradigm shift. Introduce revolutionary disruption into payments system and make it fun (dreary old bankers); and win prizes! Come join us in reinventing a $5 trillion a year business model that is ripe for change!
Contact: Mutsumi Sullivan, E14-574L, x3-1908, msullivan@media.mit.edu
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Low-Cost Science Experiment Workshop & Competition
Mihir Sarkar, Vinay Gidwaney
Wed Jan 13, 10am-12:00pm, Roth room (E15-283A)
Wed Jan 20, 27, 10am-12:00pm, Wiesner rm (E15-209)
No limit but advance sign up required (see contact below)
Signup by: 13-Jan-2010
Participants requested to attend all sessions (non-series)
Make a difference during your IAP. Underprivileged children throughout rural India rarely have the opportunity to learn about science and the properties of nature. The Media Lab's India Initiatives, along with UST Global and Agastya International Foundation, is hosting a competition for students to build low-cost science experiment apparatus that can be built with minimal skills and is made up of resources usually found in any rural village in India. Each team of two students will be advised by somebody on the ground in India, working in schools, and with intimate knowledge of the unique challenges of the environment. A panel of distinguished judges will assess your prototype and select the best one. UST Global will offer the winning team an all expenses paid trip to India to deploy their science experiment in a school.
Web: http://india.media.mit.edu/iap2010
Contact: India Initiatives, india@media.mit.edu
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Where do things come from? A Workshop in Life Cycle Assessment and Supply Chains using Sourcemap.org
Leonardo Bonanni, Matthew Hockenberry
Wed Jan 27, 01-04:00pm, e14-244
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Single session event
This one-session workshop presents a framework for considering environmental and social impacts of manufacturing, food and travel through a collective web-based tool for Life-Cycle Assessment and Supply Chain Transparency. Principles of environmental and social sustainability will be presented, including evidence from carbon footprint assessments in hospitality, retail and product design. Participants will learn how to research and conduct life-cycle assessment for consumer products, foods and transportation and make map-based visualizations for sharing through online social networks. The 4-hour program is repeated each day and followed by an optional work session until 6pm. Please bring a laptop computer with Firefox/Safari/Chrome browser installed.
Web: http://blog.sourcemap.org/iap/
Contact: Leonardo Bonanni, e14-348q, x2-5621, amerigo@media.mit.edu
Cosponsor: Center for Future Civic Media
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