BREASTFEEDING SUPPORT PROGRAM
Through Google Glass
Mid-Trial Review
The project team has reviewed in detail the technical, operational and people aspects of the trial. Ethnographic interviews have been undertaken with mums and counselors. These qualitative interviews and observations have then been overlaid with the analytical data from our computing system. Together these two methods of qualitative and quantitative data provide us with insights … Continue reading Mid-Trial Review
Read moreThinking Ahead
Trial learnings that have unfolded in the first two weeks: The Breastfeeding Support Program’s G+ Community. One of Kim Jensen’s (UX Designer) instructional videos. A very active community has developed on Google+ to support all the women in the trial (both mothers and counsellors). We started out using this to support the group with technical … Continue reading Thinking Ahead
Read moreMaddy, BSP Project Manager, Featured on Channel 9’s TODAY
How it Works
BSP Media Response
March 2014 As The Breastfeeding Support Project comes to an end, it continues to gain support from around the world. Guardian journalist Zoe Corbyn has written about the practicalities of Glass in consumer settings, and the important role Glass can play in health care, especially focusing on the Breastfeeding Support Program. You can read the … Continue reading BSP Media Response
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The next step for the learning portal
Small World Social’s Breastfeeding Support Program online learning portal. Gathering content The breastfeeding #throughglass team together with the dedicated team at the Australian Breastfeeding Association have been busy curating content and resources into an online learning portal. The learning portal is the engine that drives all the content in the program. It will display information … Continue reading The next step for the learning portal
Read moreFrontier Women
Laura, Breastfeeding Support Trial mother’s training session at Small World Social’s Melbourne studio The last few days have been exciting as the trial began, and our first group of volunteer women visited the Melbourne studio for training. One new baby has arrived, and there is a great deal of enthusiasm about the possibilities that could … Continue reading Frontier Women
Read moreInnovating Your Way Through a Tough Problem
The team has been busy working through all the practicalities of creating a program to support breastfeeding in Australia using Google Glass. Why did we choose this as our first Glass project? You need both hands to hold a baby to breastfeed, its highly personal, difficult to do and almost every mother we spoke to … Continue reading Innovating Your Way Through a Tough Problem
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