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Preparing for Tomorrow’s Stakeholders Today: Wear It, Map It, Augment It!
Wearable technology has gone from geek to glam. How soon will you wear it? From infant sleep monitors that deliver a baby’s temperature, breathing rate, and sleep position to a parent’s smartphone to sports sensors that create a 3-D representation of your tennis, baseball, or golf swing, wearable technology covers such diverse areas such as sports, medicine, and the military.
Wearable Technology
Speaker and Moderator Heather Ruland Staines, vice president of publisher development at SIPX (formerly Stanford Intellectual Property Exchange) and SSP Board member, is enthusiastic about how new technology will impact everyday life.
“Wearable technology does not need to be all things to all people,” she says. “If even five percent of the new initiatives take off, the benefits and changes to society will be tremendous.”
Heather also notes that wearable technology could have wide-reaching impacts on children undergoing medical treatment, the elderly with limited mobility, the visually or hearing impaired, or anyone wishing to collect situationally aware data about their surroundings. She believes that once people are able to collect useful data about themselves are others, they will not be so quick to dismiss new technologies.
Think Print Is Old and Boring?
Augmented reality technology can add multimedia features to a print article. Scan the article with your smartphone to view videos, podcasts, and graphics. Speaker Jay Harrison is cofounder and CEO of World in Flux, a Toronto-based company that is building the first true read-write, augmented reality-based publishing platform.
“I have spent virtually my entire career—as a Navy intelligence officer, Department of Defense civilian, and now as an entrepreneur—building technologies that help expand people’s awareness of their environment,” he sys. “The intersection of technology, content, and the physical world will not only change how we perceive the world around us but change how we create and ingest all forms of digital content.”
Location, Location, Location!
How does geographical location impact scholarly publishing? Jason Karl, creator of JournalMap, believes that scholarly articles are full of location data that can be used to drive map-based literature search tools to help researchers and authors find relevant knowledge from a specific area or from similar (but geographically separate) areas.
JournalMap is a scientific search engine that finds relevant research based on location and biophysical attributes. Currently 415 journals have been geotagged.
Elaine Williams
The JAMA Network
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