[Health] health project in GSoC 2008

[Edward Cherlin]

We should get Engineers Without Borders and Doctors Without Borders
involved. I don't have a contact for DWB. Anybody else?

I'm copying this to EWB Australia, which has expressed interest in
working with us on community-based environmental data-gathering and
mapping. I'm hoping that community-based health data is also of
interest to them, and that they will pass the invitation on to the
rest of EWB. Actually, I expect that everything that EWB does is
relevant to the XO.

On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 10:16 AM, Arjun Sarwal <arjun at laptop.org> wrote:
> (I should've included some sort of brief link about the link I was
> posting...)
>
> from the website..
> The project explores how to make information collected by personal
> health-monitoring devices fun and engaging, and consequently more useful to
> the non-specialist
>
> Also there are complete working designs as well as code resources, of low
> cost personal health monitoring devices (including EKG) that might be very
> useful. I will try and post a link to specific and relevant sections of the
> thesis on the wiki soon...
>
> thanks
> Arjun
>
>
>
> On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 10:42 PM, Arjun Sarwal <arjun at laptop.org> wrote:
> > A link to a PhD thesis that someone working on this area might find
> interesting as well as perhaps very directly relevant.
> > http://vadim.oversigma.com/thesis.pdf
> > (Vadim Gerasimov, Media Lab alumni)
> >
> > thanks
> > Arjun
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 10:29 PM, Andrzej Wytyczak-Partyka
> <iapart at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > Thanks for the reply.
> > > This project seems quite interesting to me because of my suitable
> background. I was also experimenting with EKG some time ago, although
> without success ;)
> > > As a short introduction of myself - I'm currently in my senior year of
> compute science, writing my masters thesis, and also in my 3rd year of
> medicine at a medical university, so this project would be quite natural, as
> I have some experience with electronics and also some, limited, medical
> knowledge.
> > > I'll try to come up with a short proposal and post it on the mailing
> lists.
> > > As far as I understand the idea would be to make the EKG device work
> with Measure?
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > Andrew
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 5:50 PM, Mel Chua <metamel at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > > Andrew,
> > > >
> > > > Here at OLPC, students propose their own projects for Summer of Code.
> ;-) Working on an EKG project might be difficult since it assumes access to
> hardware (microcontrollers, sensors, etc) as well as electrical engineering
> (in addition to code) work, but feel free to write up a short project
> proposal for what you're thinking of doing to this list, the devel list, and
> the gsoc list (which you should join) and people will probably comment on
> it.
> > > >
> > > > The EKG efforts so far seem to be in the very early stages - you may
> have to start from scratch - but if you write up a proposal the folks
> working on EKG stuff might come out of the woodwork and chime in on what
> they're doing. The information on the wiki about EKG efforts isn't terribly
> up-to-date.
> > > >
> > > > Best,
> > > >
> > > > -Mel
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 7:13 AM, Andrzej Wytyczak-Partyka
> <iapart at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > Hello,
> > > > > I would like to learn more about the proposed projects for this
> years GSoC, I'm especially interested in working on the EKG. I see there has
> been some work done related to this, could someone tell me how advanced it
> is and what would be the expectations of the SoC project?
> > > > >
> > > > > Thanks,
> > > > > Andrew
> > > > >
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