Microsoft’s Interactive Entertainment Business – which is where Xbox lives – teamed up with Microsoft Research to develop Kinect, which uses years’ worth of technology from laboratories around the world. It was, and continues to be, an amazing partnership with Xbox, he says.
For instance, from 2010 to 2011 the percentage of respondents who cited a competitive advantage using analytics grew 23 percent for Transformed and 66 percent for Experienced organizations. In contrast, Aspirational organizations lost ground in competitiveness, falling 5 percent since last year.
Rantz and her colleagues at the University of Missouri are researching just that, using Microsoft’s Kinect to measure and monitor subtle changes in the gait and movement of older people. Using technology to measure the way people walk more completely and daily, rather than at bi-yearly doctor’s appointments, can give healthcare professionals a chance to intervene sooner.
