Supporting access to healthcare beyond clinic: Part 1

Check out this really interesting approach to support patients comply with out-of-clinic tuberculosis treatment. Battling Tuberculosis Using Microsoft Technology - YouTube. Treating TB involves the patients to take time off to visit a nearby clinic and take medicines. However, this is easier said than done, what with the pressing need to earn a living. MSR …

Tickets-to-talk

Finally back to blogging for a bit after a long hiatus. Hopefully I will be more consistent 🙂 In the news section, I have moved base from Copenhagen to Bangalore.Back in Bangalore, I am seeking ways to collaborate with interesting people and explore further how to support the complex issues of aging and well-being through …

Self-monitoring of Sexual Performance

It has been a while I have blogged about anything, but this made me force to surface out of my thesis writing stupor. Remarkable how self-monitoring has traveled in these days, from self-monitoring your sleep patterns, exercise practices (my thesis), to sexual performance as a way to encourage safe sex! Looks like my thesis is …

“Antisocial Mobile skills”

My earlier rant on we designers being on a wrong boat was a first in a series through which I am moving on to define my research interests. What I tried to say over there through my own experiences of how people live their everyday life, is that there is a strong difference in the …

Phillipe Starck at TED

An inspiring yet funny talk at TED ,about design and how it is realted to human evolution. It takes the humble genious of Starck ot admit that most of his designs are not of having larger visions, but fall into the category of "The evolution stops here, with me. Because, I am the man!"... makes …

Scarier sixth sense…

Night Shymalans movie of the same name was scary. But when Pattie Maes signed off her TED talk on sixth sense hoping for a sixth sense brain implant in 10 years, it was scarier! Even considering that she might have added that as an afterthought of jest, it still scares me 🙂 One of the …

Have we missed the boat and are stuck up on the wrong side of the bank?

I was part of a team visiting some villages near Mumbai to understand how people with low literacy levels use their mobile phones in day to day life. We were specifically there to understand how they do ‘save’ the contact details of their friends and families and we were in for some surprise. Of course, …