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Nico-chan is a wearable with a tamagotchi-like app that acts like a digital companion for employees, and suggests social tasks colleagues can perform when they meet each other. The employee can indicate whether these have been performed, and if so Nico-chan becomes happy and rewards the employee with items he/she can collect. It is designed to facilitate open and friendly communication in the Japanese workspace, by creating more social and informal habits that are not usual in Japanese office environments. We hope that by encouraging these social habits we can create a more open & friendly office environment where employees more openly communicate with each other, facilitating the exchange of knowledge between all employees, regardless of title or age.
Coach: Marco van Hout – MediaLAB Amsterdam // Hiroshi Tamura – Re-Public (Japan)
Partner: Innovation Studio Fukuoka
Research partner: Dr. Yasuyuki Hirai – Kyushu University (Japan)
The Port of Amsterdam, one of the largest ports in Europe, covers an area of roughly 2.600 hectares, of which approximately 1.900 hectares is public space. The port outsources the actual maintenance to third party contractors. To guarantee a constant quality level, the company monitors the work of these contractors. It is in these processes that Gradr introduces smart eyewear in combination with a management platform to effectively ensure the desired quality.
The Port of Amsterdam has many responsibilities in Westpoort, the largest connected business and port area of the Netherlands. These responsibilities include the maintenance of the 13km2 of public space in Westpoort.
The Port of Amsterdam hires different contractors to keep the area clean and safe. To make sure the companies keep doing their work properly, employees of the Port of Amsterdam conduct quality assessments on a monthly basis. These assessments are conducted on 125 randomly selected locations in Westport, which is a complex and time consuming process.
Gradr is designed to optimise and innovate the assessment processes of the public space in Amsterdam Westpoort using Google Glass. The toolkit consists of a Google Glass application and an iPad optimised web platform. The web platform helps with organising the quality assessments and assists the user when navigating through the public space. The quality assessments are conducted using Google Glass and a context aware checklist, while looking at the public space.
Scribe is an online platform for the investigative journalist of the future. Its main purpose is to provide them with a workspace in which they can easily organize their various sources.This is achieved by presenting them an user-friendly dashboard layout along with a combination of new technologies called “modules”. These modules offer particular features intended to speed up the workflow of the journalist, such as audio-to-text converter or automatic tagging, as well as to increase the lifespan of their stories.
