2012-01-30 Weekly Meeting

Raxa-JSS Weekly Meeting held on 30th Jan, 2012
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Agenda and Notes

Attendees:

  • Susan Wolfe (Australia)
  • Gaurav Chugh (Delhi, India)
  • Nathan Leiby (Seattle, WA, USA)
  • Daniel Pepper (Bilaspur, Chhattisgarh, India)
  • Surajit Nundy (Delhi, India)
  • Saptarshi (Mumbai, India)

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Raxa-JSS Weekly Meeting
Jan 29 / 30, 2012 
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Status update from JSS on-site:

Susan Wolfe (UI/UX coordinator) on call, reviewed the UI/UX meeting this past Friday

  • based in Australia
  • back and forth to San Francisco (where she's from)
  • bring together vocabulary for design (common elements, general design)

Module updates

  • Bhushan is back in action on STM
  • Lab: We didn't have a lab meeting; but did make some good progress and we'll likely have another one this coming Fri/Sat. Roger is in Ghana next two weeks.
  • Screener / Triage Module: update from Bhushan
  • Out Patient Department meeting hasn't happened yet but is tentatively scheduled for next Saturday afternoon, India time.
  • Testing using Jasmine for JavaScript (behavior driven development paradigm)
    • testing specs, rather than normal unit testing

Jen Mankoff is working on how illiterate people would interact with our system

  • Human Computer Interaction specialist from Carnegie Mellon University
  • Hiring someone with a background in design/social sciences (anthropologist, connections to computer world)
  • Go to villages, talk to villagers

Carnegie Mellon University collaboration:

  • a few students investigating our architecture
  • particularly security/privacy
  • also scalability, performance

Probably part of 'patient facing' module

  • What patients see of their own health info, how they can manage it
  • but majority of JSS patients dont have a computer and/or are illiterate
  • voice is a promising direction to go
  • upcoming call with "indivo"... a patient facing module at Boston Childrens' Hospital. interactive patient technology