Posted on 06/05/2014 12:51:05 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
San Diego-based Total Communicator Solutions Inc., a leader in mobile brand management, announced today the use of the Gimbal™ context aware and proximity platform integrated with its Spark Compass platform in a pioneering research project in workplace wellness.
The project, named Project Boundary , has been conceptualized by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) IDEA Lab and the Office of the National Coordinator. It is a research project undertaken in the spirit of exploring new concepts and ideas in workplace wellness that will benefit the American workplace, and to spark further innovation in this space.
“Our project is an exploration of the following design intent – how might we better engage users within the bounds of where they are, and what they do over the course of a regular day at work, and get them to do just a little bit more toward benefiting their health,” said Nag Murty, the Innovator in Residence at the HHS IDEA Lab.
Project Boundary features a mobile application powered by Total Communicator Solutions’ Spark Compass platform that incorporates the Gimbal platform including proximity beacons with Apple’s iBeacon technology to deliver well-timed and contextually relevant triggers in order to encourage the adoption of healthy behaviors within the workplace. It hopes to explore added dimensions to the field of workplace wellness and seeks to gamify the interactions of the employees with their physical surroundings....
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Put Michelle in my back pocket and hum her a stinky tune.
Our tax money is hard at work. It’s so reassuring to know it’s being put to good use.
That sentence alone must have cost thousands of dollars to write.
“Gamify?” Of all the idiotic, made-up words technology has spawned, this has to be the worst. I can only hope we stop dummifying our language with crap like this.
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