Post by Feiyang Chen, Jian Shi and Ci Meng
Bastien Orset is a Machine Learning Engineer and a member of HackaHealth. he is in charge of engineering personalized solutions for people with mobile disabilities to improve their life quality. He is also involved in fundraising and applying for grant for the organization.
HackaHealth is a community formed with a group of people who have great interests in health and medical technologies support the development of personalized solutions for people with disabilities, in order to improve their daily living.
HackaHealth utilized Hackathon—an event that gathers professions, designers and expertise to help disabilities and create tailor-made solutions to improve their life qualities. The key point of Hackathon is to target the issue and focus on solving it with unique, creative solutions other than general methods and promote the industry innovation.
Since Hackathon is aiming to help disabled individual to compensate their lost abilities, due to the complexity and uniqueness of each disabled person, it is not likely to be widely utilized through the industry. Thus, HackaHealth is consuming rather large number of resources to help limited amount of people in need.
Jan van Mol is the founder of AddictLab, he is enthusiastic in innovative ideas, design solutions helping to achieve the idea and lead the industry revolution. He is also considered to be a publisher; his publications intend to liaise people across industries and promote the spreading of different ideas.
AddictLab is a creative laboratory collaborate professions in different fields. It promotes creative ideas and innovative thoughts through intensive communications among lab members which helps the industry progress. Moreover, AddictLab also help idea exchanges across industries through publications. In this way, through the spreading of the information to make more resources accessible in a lower cost.
The innovation of AddictLab is that it increases efficiencies of idea spreading by creating a full-cycle process and give the optimist opportunities to let people aware of the idea so that it helps the industry innovation. Through publishing magazines and holding exhibitions, people are able to have a thoroughly understating of the new ideas. Also, idea creators could gain greater opportunities to sell their ideas or cooperate with other parties to put their innovation into practice.
Although the lab has offered multiple great ideas, there are still many ideas may not feasible enough. First, gathering people brainstorming ideas is more theoretical than practical, ideas that are not mature enough would not be able to be published or exhibited. Second, lab project could only affect very small portion of people due to geographical and other issues, the accessibility to over sea people involving in lab projects is limited, many projects require experiments, people abroad could only gain virtual experience and that would only have limit help for them to understand the ideas comprehensively.