Category: Share Fair 2014 Project Directory

Jason Phillips

NYU Stern School of Business

NYU SternPlay – Take the Stairs

NYU SternPlay is a mobile app that utilizes iBeacon location-based technology to promote better collaboration and improve efficiency at Stern. The first phase of the app is an initiative called “Take the Stairs”, a school-wide competition promoting stair usage. Various groups will compete to see who can take the most steps, and in so doing will reduce elevator wait times, congestion and energy consumption. Those who log the most steps on leader boards will be rewarded.

Co-Presenter(s): Janet Lyden and/or Bridget Wiede

Jasmine Buttholph

NYU

Technology in a gender-specific combination HIV prevention pilot study in Kenya

HIV infection disproportionately affects youth (15-24 years old) in sub-Saharan Africa.  High coverage of HIV testing and counseling (HTC) is essential for early linkage to care for HIV positive youth. The MP3 Youth study aims to pilot a combination package of gender-specific interventions in western Kenya in a mobile health delivery format, mobile electronic health records, and mobile phone surveys to follow-up participants after the event.

The mobile health events are composed of 6 tents where gender specific interventions are offered on site.  The package includes: for all youth, HIV testing as an entry point with linkage to care/antiretroviral therapy (ART) and increased condom use among newly HIV-diagnosed persons; for HIV negative, uncircumcised males, voluntary medical male circumcision (VMMC); for 20-24 year old HIV negative at risk females, PrEP; and for 15-19 year old HIV negative girls attending school, a conditional cash transfer (CCT).

Participants are identified by a biometric device connected to a tablet . The services one can access depend on clinical/behavioral eligibility collected in the tents. The tablets are connected via Bluetooth and sync every 5 minutes. Clients registered in tent 1 can be identified and their health records accessed in other tents. Participants complete an ODK survey that is pushed to the NYU server at the end of each day. Biometrics ensures that individuals access each service and receive incentives only once.  RAs complete ODK checklists to ensure all services were offered. Youth who are HIV positive are enrolled in a cohort to evaluate the barriers and facilitators to accessing care and adhering to treatment. A USSD survey is pushed to the participants every 3 months. The platform protects participant confidentiality by not storing data on the device. No questions or responses are stored on the device. Upon survey completion, a mobile money transfer is sent via mPESA.

Combination HIV prevention can significantly reduce HIV risk among youth. However, to be effective in the overall population, interventions need to be implemented at high coverage levels.

Jahn Westbrook

Campus Media

My intention is to bring to light the differences of projector light sources, citing the advantages and disadvantages of using DLP; LCD; LED; Laser; Hybrid; UHP lamp methods. When these differences matter to the over all success of presentation and why it matters to your audience.

Heather Tranen

NYU Wasserman

Mobile Apps and Student Engagement at Events

The Wasserman Center will showcase the career fair app utilized to increase engagement and collect valuable data about student interaction at a large scale event.

Co-Presenter: Lesia Harhaj

Cristián Opazo

Global Learning & Innovation, GTS

Using a Multimedia Interactive Case Study as teaching model

The Multimedia Interactive Case Study (MICS) consists a series of modular, high quality digital learning modules that expose students to a real-life case while they simultaneously develop a toolbox of specific skills that support analysis and decision making in a myriad of contexts. The traditional case method, in which skills and concepts are taught and subsequently applied and practiced utilizing real life context, is the basis of this approach. Due to its modularity, the MICS can be implemented as a stand-alone course or integrated into other curricula.

Resources include video documentaries, interviews, data sets, maps, infographics, academic research, news archives, and image collections. In addition, technology and the use of an online platform enable interactive tools which provide the foundation to master specific skills and build students’ toolboxes.

More info here: https://stream.nyu.edu/media/Policy+%26+Operations+%28Wagner%29+course+promo/1_9x690ton

Co-Presenter: Hugh Mackey (GTS)