2008 USC Body Computing Slam: Presentation 5

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 fifth presentation, Beyond Exergaming, were Marientina Gotsis, Media Lab manager at the USC School of Cinematic Arts, and Maryalice Jordan-Marsh, a professor in the USC School of Social Work. Ms. Gotsis and Dr. Jordan-Marsh represented an interdisciplinary collaboration at USC working on health-centered video games. They envision a virtual world where players accumulate energy points that can be exchanged to purchase accessories in a virtual world health meets Tamagotchi.

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, St. Jude Medical.

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[williamhottel4]

ya know i have a implanted device implanted like this and the people around me will not stop hacking in to it and shape shifting me face, removing my muscles and gifted out my internal organs only to be replaced with cancer. I fucking so over this high tech SHIT IN MY BODY WHO do i need to kill to end this misery. I'm really going to kill one of you.