2008 USC Body Computing Slam: Presentation 6

The 2008 University of Southern California Body Computing Conference was held at USC on October 24, 2008, hosted by Leslie Saxon, chief of the Division of Cardiovascular Medicine at the Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California.

Making the sixth presentation, Sequencing the Human Lifestyle, was Samir Chatterjee, director of the Network Convergence Lab and a professor at Claremont Graduate College. Atomic and molecular structures have been categorized, DNA has been sequenced, and next up is the human lifestyle, says Dr. Chatterjee. As obesity rates skyrocket and wireless technology grows more prevalent, he is working to integrate the two. He has attached accelerometers, GPS receivers, etc. to patients, and linked them to their cell phones so that when they walk to an elevator, they get a text message telling them to take the stairs. When they enter a pizza joint, they get a text message reminding them to order salad. Its all part of using persuasive messages to understand and influence behavior.

Dr. Saxon emceed the session. Judges were Francis Pereira, director of industry research at the USC Institute for Communications Technology and Management; John Lalonde, vice president of Latitude Research & Development at Boston Scientific CRM; Donald Jones, vice president for business development at Qualcomm, Inc.; Jonathan Lash, director of the Alfred E. Mann Institute for Biomedical Engineering at USC; and Neil Eigler, senior vice president of CRMD Technology Incubation at St. Jude Medical.

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