The Stanford Center for Longevity, the Hasso Plattner Institute of Design at Stanford, the MIT Club of Northern California and SmartSilvers Alliance present:
LifeWear: Can Mobile Systems Enrich Your Social and Healthcare Interactions?
Speaker:
Dr Alex (Sandy) Pentland, MIT Media Lab
Panelists:
- Terry Winograd, the Hasso Plattner Institute of Design
- Dana Mead, Kleiner Perkins Caulfield & Byers
Moderator:
Susan Walker, SmartSilvers Alliance
Date: Thursday, 11/03/2005
Time: 6:00pm
Venue: Peter Wallenberg Theater – Stanford University Campus
Location: http://wallenberg.stanford.edu/top/location.html
What happens when a forward-thinking technology…
“I have been developing wearable information aids…essentially
augmented mobile telephones…that passively map and monitor your
personal rhythms and social interactions.” – Sandy Pentland (MIT Media
Lab), September, 2005
Meets the Boomer Market? …
“On Jan. 1, 2006, the first of an estimated 77 million baby boomers,
those Americans born from 1946 to 1964, will celebrate their 60th
birthday. Through its sheer size — and, some would say,
self-indulgence — the generation has given rise, or given teeth, to a
host of fashions and institutions that are now central to popular
culture: rock ‘n’ roll, working moms, Earth Day, sport-utility vehicles,
Botox, Viagra and Starbucks.” – The Wall Street Journal, September 26, 2005
Visionary thinker Dr. Sandy Pentland’s group at MIT is developing
LifeWear, systems that create “quality of life” maps by monitoring
social networks to proactively enhance our personal and social lives.
Using enhanced mobile phone technology, devices can measure the common
sense signals that we use to assess each other, such as tone of voice,
body language, and patterns of interaction. Learn how this family of
emerging technologies could enhance our ability to manage communications
and interactions with family, health assessment, care giving, social and
work situations.
Join us as we explore in a panel discussion the implications of LifeWear
and other innovative technologies with potential to start a revolution
in the experience of aging.
(disclosure: Cerado is a contributing member of the SmartSilvers Alliance)