ScanBand v0.2Thursday night marked the first presentation of my thesis work to outside critics. It went well, despite a snafu with the barcode scanner that prevented the ScanBand from displaying its results on screen. As a non-digital user scenario, though, it was fine.

Here's the breakdown of my presentation. I've also attached the PDF of the show and a PDF of the version 0.2 ScanBand prototype, which is made available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0

• Thesis Proposal
  • Michael Edwards
  • Parsons the New School For Design
  • September 20, 2007
• Health Care in the Developing World
  • Areas of Research
  • Diseases
  • Diagnostic Tools
  • Treatments
  • Treatment Issues
• Areas of Research
  • Countries
    • Malawi
  • Organizations
    • Baobab Health Partnership
    • KCH
    • Kawale
• Diseases
  • HIV/AIDS
    • Wasting
    • WHO Staging
  • Malnutrition
    • Acute
    • Chronic
• Diagnostic Tools
  • Anthropometrics
    • General Population
      • Height
      • Weight
      • BMI
      • MUAC
      • Temperature
  • Anthropometrics
    • Mothers/Neonates
      • Gestational Length
      • Birth Weight
      • Head Circumference
      • Length
      • Mother's Weight Differences
  • Statistics
    • Weight-Height
    • Weight-Age
    • Height-Age
    • LBW (Low Birth Weight)
    • SFG (Small for Gestational Age)
    • Pregnancy Balance
• Treatments
  • Antiretroviral Therapy (ART)
  • Therapeutic Nutrition
• Treatment Issues
  • Measurement Error
  • Lack of staff
  • Difficult Record Keeping
• Design Questions
  • How can intra and inter operator error be reduced for anthropometric measurements?
  • How can the system deployed at KCH better collect and transfer data without paper or unnecessary transcriptions?
• Ideas for error reduction
  • channel measurements directly into Baobab System
    • Scanner read measurement tape
    • Retrofit other measurement devices for scanners
    • modify/hack electronics like scales and thermometers
• Domains
  • Anthropology
    • Physical
    • Social
    • Applied
  • Engineering
    • Instrument Design
    • Quality Assurance
    • Software
    • Biomechanical
    • Ergonomics
  • Medicine
    • Epidemiology
    • Pediatrics
    • OB-GYN
    • HIV/AIDS Specialty
    • Tropical Medicine
  • Social Work
    • HIV/AIDS Counselling
    • Family Planning
    • Conflict Resolution
• The Baobab Appliance
• Health Passport
• Passport Scanned
• Begin Entry
• Patient Presents Arm
• SCANBAND Fitted
• Barcode Scanned
• Measurement Recorded
• Operator Continues
• Conclusion