Assignment 1: Brainstorming Ideas and 1-Minute Madness Presentation

Individual assignment

Read the material assigned for week 2. It will help get you thinking.

Then, develop three concepts for the use of Google Glass or Android Wear to change healthcare, health, or health research as we know it. Think big and out of the box, as discussed in Class 1. Think crazy, in the good way. Target high risk, high payoff ideas. Don't just think about death or disease, but all the other aspects of health discussed in Class 1 that could benefit from more attention. Be realistic ... remember we want to build something that actually works and that could be tested. The ideas must focus on person- or patient-facing systems (i.e., personal health informatics), as discussed in class.

Two of the ideas can address any problems. One of the ideas must address a problem using the NEU Campus Living Lab, described in the first class. You might want to develop more than 3 ideas, but pick the best 3 to turn in. Your ideas should not be variations of the same idea. They should be three, quite distinct, ideas.

Next, develop an "elevator pitch" for each of the ideas. Each pitch will be a 1-minute presentation describing that idea to the rest of the class as best as you can. Your goal is to convince the class that you have come up with a great idea ... innovative, creative, appropriate for mobile devices, useful, engaging, addictive, buildable in the span of a semester, etc. You don't yet have enough information yet about Google Glass to really do this, but give it a shot anyway. In short, after each minute pitch, try to leave us thinking, "Wow! What a great idea! Why didn't I think of that?"

Submit your ideas by the deadline the day before class.

You will present one or more of your ideas in class as part of our 1-Minute Madness Idea Pitch session in Class 2. (You will be notified which one(s) the morning of the day of class.)

In the class we will use a variant on Petcha Kucha for presentations. You will present using timed slides using a particular format. For this assignment, you must develop each of your ideas (3 slides per idea) using this template.

Hand in:

Email your slides as a single PPT file named PHIDD-[YourFirstName][YourLastName].1mm.ppt to ...@neu.edu by the deadline.

Note that you are absolutely not committing yourself to these particular ideas in any way. Your goal in this exercise is to come up with a great idea that others will be enthusiastic about and make a strong 1 minute pitch for good ideas. This is the start of a process to help you (and then your eventual team) come up with an idea that is truly outstanding.

The ideas and presentation should reflect that students have put significant thought into this brainstorming and in preparing the pitch to make the case for the quality of the idea.