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It's that time of the year again. The flood of email alerts showcasing online holiday shopping deals fill the inbox at your office PC, laptops and wireless devices as merchants attempt to lure online shoppers to "click and save" while supplies last. In fact, reports show that this year's "holiday shopping" deals have already started as retailers attempt to stretch the holiday shopping season - to begin even earlier than Black Friday.
According to a recent report in Time, Booz & Co. chief retail strategist, Thom Blischok states. "We're not going to see a huge increase in sales growth for Black Friday this year....What we do expect is a lot of 'showcasing' on Black Friday. Shoppers will check things out in stores, electronics especially, but then purchase online on the Monday after. Cyber Monday sales will explode this year."
While this is good news for merchants, it can become a virtual nightmare for corporate network administrators. With millions of online shoppers turning their office PCs, laptops, and wireless devices into online shopping carts, they hog valuable network bandwidth meant for corporate applications such as e-mail, SAP, Salesforce, and other business-critical applications.
The onslaught of personal smartphones and tablets connecting to corporate networks fully capable of performing browser-based shopping are further affecting normal business operations. According to ABI Research, more than 36 percent of consumers own at least three wireless devices. eCommerce merchants now alert wired consumers with daily deals almost instantly via mobile marketing. This surge has placed greater demands on network monitoring solutions as the mobile device market continues to grow at an astounding rate of five billion subscribers worldwide.
Most organizations allowing employee-owned devices onto their corporate networks (73% according to Aberdeen) find it not only drains their bandwidth, but also opens up severe internal security threats to proprietary information stored on the network. Employers assume this as increased productivity for employees armed with mobile devices and cost savings for hardware not purchased by the corporate office as most employees (54 percent, according to Yankee Group) demand to use their own devices at work.
According to IDC Research, however, 30-40 percent of Internet use in the workplace is non-business related. Vault.com found 37 percent of workers admit to surfing the Web constantly at work for personal interests. This underscores the need for mobile device traffic monitoring. How can network admins monitor employee internet usage and take corrective action?
Companies can easily set guidelines for network traffic monitoring to safeguard against employees armed with BYOD - especially during high traffic holiday shopping/sale months - in a few easy steps.
MAC Addresses and Mobile Devices
The old and sort of cumbersome way is to monitor the unique MAC addresses that are used by each smart mobile device that accesses an Ethernet network. The 6 byte (i.e., 48 bit) MAC address is generally in two parts: The first 3 bytes are the MAC Address vendor ID generally shared by hundreds or even tens of thousands of devices produced by the manufacturer; the second set of three bytes are unique to the device.
A 48-bit Ethernet MAC address has two components, each of which is 24 bits:
*24-bit Organizational Unique Identifier (OUIIEEE regulates the assignment of OUI numbers. Within the OUI, the two following bits have meaning only when used in the destination address:
- Broadcast or multicast bit - indicates to the receiving interface the frame is destined a group of end stations on the LAN segment.
- Locally administered address bit - normally combines OUI and a 24-bit station address. This is universally unique; however, if the address is modified locally, this bit should be set. Some vendors like Apple set this bit automatically.
Generally, the MAC address is not changed by the end user, thus dynamic IP addresses are often not used to track or report on mobile phone devices. Organizations using NetFlow and IPIX can in fact track these MAC addresses.
MAC Addresses and NetFlow
Traditional flow data (e.g., NetFlow v5) exports IP addresses, but not MAC addresses. NetFlow v9 and IPFIX introduce the ability to export any information on the router including MAC address.
A reliable Network Traffic Analyzer can be used to report to report on NetFlow and IPFIX. The NetFlow Analyzer should offer a filtering architecture to allow traffic analysts to include or exclude portions of MAC addresses. If the administrator wants to narrow a particular vendor (e.g., 00.00.0c) or the iPhone (e.g., 60:33:4b, 64.b9.38, etc.), a reporting tool can filter on these vendor IDs. Once vendor IDs are added to the report, the type can be changed to view different reports. For example, the top domains these mobile devices are visiting can be obtained if the router, switch, or firewall exporting the NetFlow or IPFIX includes URL information. The IT manager can often click on the domain (e.g. facebook.com) and look at URLs visited with mobile device.
Tracking BYOD
By forcing users to authenticate all devices onto the network and agreeing to an operating system scan, network administrators can maintain an active inventory of who (i.e., username) authenticated onto the network and with what type of device. Detailed reports can be run on the volume of iPhones, Androids, Blackberries, iPads, etc. that have authenticated onto the network. Since the MAC address is obtained from every authenticated device, it can be cross referenced with the NetFlow and IPFIX received to look at traffic patterns. This is a much more scalable solution and less error prone approach than the traditional track-down-all-the-mac-addresses approach.
Smartphones: Network Security Challenge
Allowing smartphone access to corporate resources often requires adapting new corporate mobile strategies and policies. Many companies provide VPN access to the corporate network from computers when working remotely. While VPNs offer a secure connection by encapsulating data, many smartphones don't support them (e.g., iPhone). This is partly because the hardware doesn't have the processing power to keep up with encryption processes on-the-fly. Due to pressure from management and remote users, VPN enforcement is often lax. Most employees obtain corporate access from any public network, which includes public places like local coffee shops. This opens Pandora's Box when it comes to security threats.
Smartphones are an ideal tool for cybercriminals to push their malware, viruses, worms and other threats onto corporate networks. With many important titles, email addresses and phone numbers sitting on just about every network-capable mobile phone, stealing confidential emails or pushing botnets onto the company network is easier with traditional security measures put aside in favor of easy remote access. With smartphone synchronization, infection can easily migrate onto a PC - a Trojan horse method that infects the PC could provide access to the corporate network. On the other hand, the data carried on smartphones can be targeted through malware on PCs.
Direct Attacks on the Mobile Phone
Some employees try to increase the security of their phone with special anti-theft software or by encrypting their memory card. These solutions are aimed at making data protected from physical attacks. However, those are done by pickpockets, who are less interested in the mobile phone content than reusing or reselling the device.
Cybercriminals do care about sensitive information stored on smartphones, but they don't need physical access to the phone to retrieve it. Rather, they will exploit any vulnerability - for instance in the phone's Web browser (such as the WebKit vulnerabilities on Android phones) - or use social engineering tricks to install malware on the phone. Once the phone is infected, it's easy for the cybercriminal to access any data on the device. In those cases, the locks are useless and the memory card is dynamically decrypted when used.
Businesses must add employees to the corporate network easily and cost-effectively while maintaining desired security levels and remote management capabilities. Traditionally, the RIM BlackBerry Enterprise Server (BES) has been the gold standard among organizations with corporate-liable policies, providing sophisticated security and management capabilities.
However, smartphones like Androids and iPhones are becoming more popular, and some organizations feel obligated to embrace these as part of the employee-owned smartphone strategy. These are also supporting minimum security requirements, like timed-lock and remote wipe in the case of a lost or stolen handset. Some mobile apps, like Touchdown for Android, provide Exchange ActiveSync capabilities that support security policies to ensure security of the corporate data on the smartphone. Clearly, organizations need to rethink their mobile Smartphone strategies and take into account the proliferation of employee-owned smartphones.
Setting up single sign-on is another strategy that could be implemented on corporate networks. However, as of today, it's not supported on the iPhone. Whatever the decision, a careful evaluation of mobile devices accessing the network needs to be executed.
Ultimately, the question is: Do employees really need access to the corporate network via their smartphones? If they are provided access, then IT must secure the network to make sure the onslaught of online holiday shopping and sales offerings don't turn the season to "nightmare" before Christmas for the network bandwidth.
So, this holiday season, stay safe out there and don't forget to drive safe - on the road and in cyberspace.
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Americans call it "Styrofoam" and throw it away. Ethiopians know it as "hard sponge," and scavenge scraps of it in the streets for resale in the marketplace.
"Nothing goes to waste. Everything is reused. Trash in Jimma isn't a plastic bag. It's a piece of a plastic bag," said Matthew Wettergreen, a lecturer at the Oshman Engineering Design Kitchen (OEDK) recently returned from 10 days in Ethiopia.
Accompanied by Ann Saterbak, a professor in the practice of bioengineering education and associate dean for undergraduate education, they are working with Jimma University and its biomedical engineering program. They left Houston Feb. 26 and returned March 8.
"We're strengthening the skills of the biomedical engineering faculty at Jimma," said Saterbak, part of the team from Rice and Texas Children's Hospital awarded a three-year, $200,000 grant from the American International Health Alliance (AIHA). As grant recipients, their charge is to "advance appropriate heath technology design and problem-based leaning for bioengineers and biomedical technicians."
The five-year biomedical engineering program at Jimma University has about 200 students and a faculty of 20, only one of whom has earned a Ph.D. Through the AIHA partnership, two North Americans are teaching at the school this academic year. Students share a library of 50 or 60 books, most of them donated by Rice students.
Jimma is a city of 200,000 some 200 miles southwest of Addis Ababa, the capital. "They have new facilities for their engineering school. By the standards of sub-Saharan Africa, the infrastructure is in good condition," Saterbak said.
Saterbak and Wettergreen carried with them from Houston 100 pounds of prototyping material, all of it readily available in the U.S. but uncommon in Ethiopia – rubber bands, paper cups, ping pong balls, modeling clay and scissors. Addis Ababa is home to a vast open-air marketplace, reputed to be the largest in Africa. There, the Americans scavenged more material for use in the prototyping and engineering design workshops they ran for faculty and students. They spent the equivalent of $35 on scrap Styrofoam. With this material, Wettergreen set up a prototyping workshop for the biomedical engineering department.
"Everything is reused until it breaks down into nothing," Wettergreen said.
A three-wheeled motorcycle known as a Bajaj is a common sight in the streets of Jimma. While most people walk, some hire them for taxi service, and drivers can be reckless in crowded streets. Passengers and pedestrians are often injured.
Saterbak and Wettergreen set up a design competition for students and faculty with the goal of learning how to reduce Bajaj-related injuries. The Ethiopians were given two hours to build a model Bajaj with cardboard and other prototyping material. Into it they placed two ping pong balls representing passenger and driver. The challenge was to run the model down a 30-foot zipline into a wall without the balls flying out.
"The students were like a lot of Rice undergraduates. There was a lot of excitement. Our goal was to get them to use their hands to build a prototype, and they had a lot of fun doing it," Wettergreen said.
The Rice team has no immediate plans to return to Jimma. Their goal for now is to continue encouraging engineering design at the university.
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When Jordan Miller, assistant professor of bioengineering, applied for a George R. Brown Teaching Grant, he knew he was looking for a new style of class.
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"I looked at the kinds of things we work on in our lab," he explained. "We regularly prototype electronic devices such as 3-D printers and laser cutters, and it occurred to me that having a class where students could have hands-on experience creating device prototypes would be a good way to go."
The George R. Brown Teaching grants are offered every year to faculty to cover costs for new classes or to augment any needs for existing ones. Miller says then-department chair Rebecca Richards-Kortum encouraged him to apply for the grant and offered departmental matching funds to help get the class fully funded.
"The framework of the Brown Teaching Grant inspired me to develop a new type of course that could push more students toward hardware design," Miller said. Bioengineering 421/521: Microcontroller Applications was born.
"Electronic devices that can accomplish a specific task are combinations of hardware and software," he said. "The goal of the class was to educate both undergraduates and graduate students on how to develop software and hardware components that could be integrated into a single device and be applied in the real world."
Graduate student Bagrat Grigoryan displays one of the intricate designs that he and teammate Jacob Albritton were able to fabricate with a 3-D printer using a microcontroller device they created in Assistant Professor of Bioengineering Jordan Miller's course.
Partnering with Maria Oden, professor in the practice of engineering education and director of the Oshman Engineering Design Kitchen, Miller was able to host the class at the kitchen's computing lab. That gave students access to hardware and prototyping equipment with which they could build their devices.
"The Oshman Engineering Design Kitchen is an incredible innovation hub on campus, which critically facilitated the success of this class," Miller said.
With the inaugural class of 16 bioengineering students who would later form two-person teams, Miller spent the first part of the semester teaching the foundations of the Linux operating system via text-based command-line programming. Later lessons focused on how to build more sophisticated devices that could interface with sensors and control lights, motors and valves.
Because prototyping focuses on the feasibility of an idea, rather than optimizing its final look and feel, the students emphasized the logical flow of inputs to and outputs from their devices. Students developed gadgets of their own using Raspberry Pi, a single-board computer that can run a full Linux Operating System, and Arduino, an open-source single-board microcontroller with high-precision timer and multiple programmable inputs and outputs.
Graduate students Gisele Calderon and Ian Kinstlinger created this whimsical diagram to illustrate CATitude, a device that uses a camera, microcontroller and water pistol to train cats to keep away from off-limit places like kitchen counters. It delivers CATsequences (squirts of water) to feline encroachers and logs violations in a Guilt CATalog that includes an online gallery of "criminal mugshots."
The two devices cost less than $100 and allowed for inexpensive and rapid device prototyping. Students also tapped into the massive community of online enthusiasts for Raspberry Pi and Arduino, finding tutorials and open-source software components that could be integrated into their projects, Miller said.
Students presented their final projects to Miller and their peers this month. Examples of class projects included:
Despite the whimsical nature of many of the projects, students mastered all the fundamental pieces that go into making a successful electronic device by following standard engineering design criteria.
"I wanted them to focus on carefully laying out the goals of their devices and the milestones they needed to reach to get there," Miller said. "So it was important they define what their projects could do undefined but also be explicit about what their device didn't need to do undefined to allow for focused development and modularization. Students also pitched future capabilities their device could later be expanded to incorporate."
Miller was pleased with the whole course and said the class was such a success that it will be offered again next fall.
"It was even better than I imagined," he said. "Not only did we meet all the goals I set out in the teaching grant, the students were really excited by these projects. When you make the class projects fun to work on, it's easy to keep students engaged. They were given a ton of leeway in defining and refining the goals for their prototyped devices.
"This class was an amazing experience for me," he said. "The students completely blew me away with their creativity, innovation and dedication. I wouldn't be surprised to see some of these class projects pursued for crowd-funding through Kickstarter to refine their proof-of-concept devices into consumer-level products."
– Holly Beretto writes for the George R. Brown School of Engineering
Pedro, a patient at Shriners Hospital for Children, Houston, who has a condition called arthrogryposis that prevents him from using a standard wheelchair, tests a custom model built by Rice University students that lets him paddle to move forward and backward. Watching, from left, are his sister and mother, Shriners surgeon Gloria Gogola, Rice Professor Ann Saterbak and Shriners occupational therapist James Northcutt. Photo by Brandon Martin
Rice University students have built a unique wheelchair for a Houston teenager who will now be able to row his way forward.
Pedro, 15, a patient at Shriners Hospital for Children, Houston, has had arthrogryposis since birth. This congenital disorder causes severe limitation of movement in all of his joints.
But Pedro's path can be made easier. The Rice students are near completion of a four-year effort to make the wheelchair, which works with a paddling motion that does not require Pedro to turn the wheels of his manual wheelchair by hand.
Pedro's disability prevents him from pulling his arms in at the elbows – though he can push out. In addition, his wrists are locked in a rotated position.
"He can't operate a normal wheelchair because it would require him to grip the wheels, which he can't do," said Michaela Dimoff, a Rice junior and bioengineering major, and part of the Wheelin' and Dealin' wheelchair team that designed the new device. "He would be able to push them out, but once he's there, he's stuck."
The new chair has push-forward paddles instead of armrests. Pedro places his hands inside fabric loops and pushes to move. The spring-loaded arms do the work when it's time to pull his arms back to complete the cycle. "He pushes out and then relaxes, and the paddles come back," said Dimoff, who spent much of her summer break working on the project.
Members of the team responsible for Pedro's chair include, from left, Reed Thornburg, Rice Professor Ann Saterbak, Shriners occupational therapist James Northcutt, Jared Elinger, Christina Petlowany, David Smith and Michaela Dimoff. Photo by Jeff Fitlow
Pedro has a motorized wheelchair he uses at school, but at home, when his family is not available to push him in a standard chair, he's wheel-less. "He moves around his house by commando crawling with his forearms," Dimoff said.
The chair was built at Rice's Oshman Engineering Design Kitchen (OEDK) by a team that includes mechanical engineering majors Jared Elinger and Christina Petlowany and materials science and nanoengineering major David Smith, all juniors, and senior art history major Reed Thornburg. The parts were fabricated and assembled there with the exception of hub-mounted transmissions on each wheel that allow Pedro to go forward and backward and also give him a neutral gear.
Weeks after taking on the project, the team had its first meeting with Pedro to get specifics on his physical capabilities. "We spent a long time trying to figure out the scope of what he can do," Elinger said. "It quickly became clear that for propulsion, a rowing motion was our only option."
"For our initial prototypes, we used bicycle hubs," Petlowany said. "Once that didn't seem to work so well, we moved to bicycle hubs and chains. And we could make it work, but it didn't meet our design criteria and clearly wasn't a long-term solution."
"Our industry mentor, Scott Daigle, the co-founder and CEO of Intelliwheels in Illinois, told us it would take hundreds of thousand of dollars and years to be able to machine our own gears and get them to work," Dimoff said.
"We didn't want Pedro to have to wait that long," Petlowany added.
The students found their solution at a California-based company, Innovations Health, which sold them wheelchair-specific, lever-operated Wijit wheels at wholesale and advised the students on how to incorporate them into their existing design. The teammates raised funds to buy them, with significant contributions coming from OEDK, the Rice Center for Engineering Leadership and the Shriners International chapter in Houston.
Pedro's input was critical at every step, Smith said. "We tested the chair with him six or eight times," he said. "We'd test brakes, forward motion, speed, comfort, and each time we'd make changes and come back and say, 'Hey, look at what we've done. What do you think of these things?'
"He's a great kid and doesn't like to complain, but we told him, 'If it's not perfect, we want you to tell us.' That really helped us in the design process."
Rice students, from left, David Smith, Reed Thornburg and Michaela Dimoff work with Pedro during a recent test of the wheelchair. Photo by Brandon Martin
The team also called upon experts to help refine the wheelchair, which was turned over to Pedro for extended beta testing in August. Phil Kortum, a Rice assistant professor of psychology and a human factors specialist; Alan Russell, the director of Rice Disability Support Services; and Lex Frieden, a disability policy expert and rights activist, offered valuable advice during visits to the OEDK. Dimoff said the students didn't know until later that Frieden is a chief architect of the Americans with Disabilities Act.
The students expect to bring the chair back to Rice at the end of September for what they hope are final touch-ups and are busy completing documentation so future engineering students can keep it in good repair.
In addition, the Bike Barn in Houston's West University neighborhood has agreed to service the wheelchair's bicycle-style brakes, which Pedro operates by flaring his legs, for the life of the chair. The students hope that is a long, long time.
"After the beta testing period, we'll likely have design revisions to make," Dimoff said, "but we hope it's the last time we'll have to take it away from him."
"It's hard to think past this because it's become such a milestone," Thornburg said of turning the wheelchair over to Pedro. "But, of course, one thing this project has conditioned us for is to be ready for anything."
Dimoff said doctors at Shriners have suggested the wheelchair design may be suitable for people with spina bifida, cerebral palsy and other disabilities. "It might even help a person with arthritis or someone who has really weak upper arms and doesn't want to do this (rolling motion) all day," she said. "Ergonomically, the way you move a standard wheelchair is terrible for your body. It's terrible for your shoulders. The rowing motion is really a lot better."
The students are proud of their success at accomplishing what seemed, for a time, impossible. The project began as one of the first offered by faculty adviser Ann Saterbak, a professor of bioengineering education and associate dean for undergraduate education, when she started her freshman design course four years ago. Other teams had tried and failed, she said.
"Dr. Saterbak told us, 'You guys are it. You're the last hope,'" Dimoff recalled. "So there was no excuse. It didn't matter what we had to learn or what we had to do, or how long it took because this boy needs a wheelchair, and we can't let him down."
In addition to Saterbak, the team's faculty advisers include OEDK Director Maria Oden, a professor in the practice of engineering, and Matthew Wettergreen, a lecturer in engineering; alumni adviser Larry Ciscon; and Shriners Houston surgeon Gloria Gogola.
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A student-developed device to help premature infants at risk from apnea has won a seed grant for further development. Members of the 2012 capstone team are, from left, Andrea Ulrich, Bridget Ugoh, Rachel Gilbert, Jordan Schermerhorn and Rachel Alexander. Photo by Jeff Fitlow
The Rice 360˚: Institute for Global Health Technologies has won a grant to continue development of a device invented by Rice students to help premature infants at risk from apnea, a breathing condition that can cause cognitive damage or death if not treated.
The BreathAlert device, originally designed in 2012 by engineering students as their senior capstone project, will be evaluated and optimized to detect and correct episodes of apnea in low-resource settings where traditional vital-signs monitoring is not available.
Rice engineering students describe their BreathAlert prototype in this 2012 video.
This work is part of an ongoing collaboration with pediatricians at Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital in Blantyre, Malawi, who identified the critical need for low-cost monitoring tools and have provided clinical guidance on the project, said Maria Oden, director of Rice's Oshman Engineering Design Kitchen and a professor in the practice of engineering education.
Rice won one of 26 seed grants awarded last week by Saving Lives at Birth: A Grand Challenge for Development, a partnership of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), the government of Norway, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Grand Challenges Canada and the United Kingdom's Department for International Development.
Maria Oden pitched the project at the organization's annual DevelopmentXChange in Washington, D.C., on July 30. "We're so excited," she said of the award. "This will allow us to finalize the design and complete an initial clinical evaluation of BreathAlert."
Rebecca Richards-Kortum, Rice 360˚ and Beyond Traditional Borders (BTB) director and the Stanley C. Moore Professor of Bioengineering, also attended the event. She helped present BreathAlert and reported on progress in the ongoing bubble continuous positive airway pressure (bCPAP) project, also funded by Saving Lives at Birth, as it rolls out in Malawi.
Andrea Ulrich '12, left, a member of the Rice student team that developed BreathAlert, and OEDK Director Maria Oden display the latest iteration of the device at last week's DevelopmentXChange in Washington, D.C.
Rachel Gilbert '12 has worked for Rice 360˚ since graduation to develop the project she helped start with Rice graduates Rachel Alexander, Jordan Schermerhorn, Bridget Ugoh and Andrea Ulrich as part of BTB. Gilbert will leave Rice this summer to work in Vietnam under a Whittaker International Program Fellowship.
"We've been improving the design to get it to the point where it's ready to be tested in clinics," she said. "We are currently testing how well it can detect breaths and apnea on breathing mannequins."
Gilbert, fellow bioengineering alumnus Tyler Young '12 and Kelley Maynard, Rice 360˚ director of technology development, have begun testing the device on full-term infants in Houston "to see if BreathAlert can accurately detect breaths and if its vibration can stir sleeping babies."
The low-cost device incorporates a stretch sensor that wraps around a child's chest and a vibrator that activates if the child stops breathing for more than 15 seconds. It is intended for busy neonatal clinics in developing countries.
"Sixty seven percent of babies born before 32 weeks' gestation suffer from apnea of prematurity, so that is well over a million babies a year worldwide," Oden said. "If a baby stops breathing in the developed world, an alarm immediately summons a nurse to intervene. That nurse will usually pat the baby vigorously to wake them up.
"In a busy ward where there might be 40 babies and one overworked nurse, this baby's survival is really a game of chance. It relies on this nurse to observe the baby at the exact moment they stop breathing and intervene. BreathAlert was designed to detect and automatically intervene in cases of apnea."
Oden said part of the grant will also allow the team to develop the, product requirements and specifications to prepare BreathAlert for commercial manufacturing.
Richards-Kortum and Oden expect BreathAlert to find a home alongside bCPAP and other projects invented by Rice students as part of the Day One Project, a Rice initiative to build modern, cost-effective neonatal clinics for hospitals in developing nations. The pilot "Nursery of the Future" project is underway at Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital.
The grant is the third to Rice in the highly competitive program's four years. The bCPAP device won a seed grant in the program's first year and a larger "transition-to-scale" award in 2012. The device is being deployed in African hospitals.
The Grand Challenge funded 59 projects in its first three years to address 289,000 maternal deaths, 2.9 million neonatal deaths and 2.6 million stillbirths that occur in the world each year.
Members of the team that took second place in this year's Texas Instruments Innovation Challenge are, from rear left, Allison Garza, Andrew Schober, Vivaswath Kumar, Shaurya Agarwal and Sonia Garcia. With them in a photo taken earlier this year at Shriners Hospital for Children in Houston are, from left, Dora Aticia Barrios, her son Brandon Sierra, a patient who helped test the dexterity analysis device, and James Northcutt, an occupational therapist at Shriners. Photo by Jeff Fitlow
A team of recent Rice engineering graduates took second place in the annual Texas Instruments Innovation Challenge with the DeXcellence motion-analysis device developed for cerebral palsy patients.
Rice graduates Vivaswath Kumar, left, and Andrew Schober, right, demonstrate their device to analyze the dexterity of cerebral palsy patients to Rich Templeton, chairman, president and CEO of Texas Instruments, during the company's recent Innovation Challenge. At right is the DeXcellence team's co-adviser, Gary Woods, a professor in the practice of computer technology in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering.
The Rice team of Sonia Garcia, Shaurya Agarwal, Allison Garza, Viviswath Kumar and Andrew Schober earned $7,500 in the late July competition in Dallas. The DeXcellence device, developed in collaboration with Shriners Hospital for Children, consists of a Bluetooth-enabled peg that patients move over a custom board. The device sends data to software that helps therapists track patients' progress. The team built the device as a senior capstone design project at Rice's Oshman Engineering Design Kitchen.
Ohio State won the competition among teams from 120 colleges and universities from the United States, Canada and Mexico. This was the fourth time in five years that Rice has placed among the top three finishers, including firsts in 2011 and 2012.
Earlier this year, DeXcellence took first place at the Rice Engineering Design Showcase and second place in the International Student Design Showcase undergraduate poster competition at the Design of Medical Devices Conference at the University of Minnesota. Watch a video demonstration of the DeXcellence device here.
Senior Sonia Garcia guides Brandon Sierra, a patient at Shriners Hospital for Children, Houston, through tasks intended to measure his dexterity. Garcia is part of a team of Rice students that invented a device to track cerebral palsy patients' progress through therapy. Photo by Jeff Fitlow
It looks like a game board and many of its users will find it fun, but there's serious intent behind a device by Rice University students to test the abilities of cerebral palsy patients.
At the heart of the DeXcellence platform is a small peg comfortable enough for a 3-year-old to hold. But packed inside are enough electronics to tell a nearby computer, tablet or other Bluetooth-enabled device of how the cylinder is moving in space.
In tandem with a board that directs the patient's movements, the cylinder sends a steady stream of data to the computer. That data is analyzed by the Rice team's software to give a therapist a clear picture of a patient's progress in physical therapy
The DeXcellence device is the work of five Rice seniors who designed it at the Oshman Engineering Design Kitchen as their capstone project in collaboration with Shriners Hospital for Children, Houston, and Rice advisers Gary Woods, a professor in the practice of computer technology in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Eric Richardson, a lecturer in bioengineering.
It would complement the device that inspired it, a low-tech pegboard for evaluation known as a Functional Dexterity Test (FTD), in the clinic of Shriners' doctor Gloria Gogola, who suggested the students look into a way to quantify movement.
The DeXcellence device tracks the dexterity of cerebral palsy patients through their ability to move a Bluetooth-enabled cylinder through a series of tasks. On one side of the game board, patients must move the peg over a hurdle and center it on a target. Photo by Jeff Fitlow
"We got to go there and watch patients use the peg board, and we could see them cheat," said bioengineering major Sonia Garcia, a member of the team with Shaurya Agarwal (mechanical engineering), Allison Garza (mechanical engineering), Vivaswath Kumar (electrical and computer engineering) and Andrew Schober (bioengineering and computational and applied math). "Instead of turning the peg in the air, they would drop it and then move it into the hole."
The DeXcellence device doesn't let that happen. Their portable board has two sides. One has targets and pop-up hurdles. The patient must pick the cylinder up from the center of one target and turn it 180 degrees while moving over the hurdle to the center of the next target. On the flip side is a set of paths the patient tracks with the peg.
All the while, the electronics are silently sending data on where the cylinder is in space as well as its speed and orientation.
"There is a big gap in technology for the evaluation of movement patterns in (patients with) cerebral palsy," Gogola said. "At one end, we have clinical exams that are all visual. We even videotape exams so we can watch them again to catch more subtle things."
At the other end is Shriners' high-tech motion analysis lab, which involves putting markers on patients and uses motion-sensor cameras and computers to gather information as they move, she said.
"This project aims for the middle," she said of the Rice team's work. "We want to bring more tech to the clinic. The peg the patient moves through the test provides motion-path data therapists can't quantify by eye. It's like a motion analysis lab in a peg!"
Moving the peg over a path on the board's flip side enables therapists to gather valuable information about their patients' progress. Photo by Jeff Fitlow
The students worked hard to present a polished project. "We have the motion-capture technology with the peg, we have the exam itself, we built the software in the computer and we have the charger for the peg," Agarwal said. "That's what we set out to do. We wanted to give them the entire solution; not one part of it, but everything they need to conduct an exam."
Their success was recognized by all who watched the DeXcellence team demonstrate it at Rice's annual George R. Brown Engineering Design Showcase and Poster Competition, at which the team won the grand prize of $5,000 in April. The team also placed second in the International Student Design Showcase at the University of Minnesota's Design of Medical Devices conference in April.
Those were highlights of their final year at Rice, to be sure, but they were just as thrilled to see their device in use at Shriners. A week before graduation, the students gathered at Shriners to observe as Brandon Sierra, 15, put the device through its paces. Sierra underwent surgery on his right arm in April to help him regain motion in the arm that had been hindered by hemiplegic cerebral palsy.
"I think the possibilities for this are enormous," said occupational therapist Dorit Aaron, former president of the American Society of Hand Therapists and a Shriners volunteer. "The device is different from the original FTD in the sense that it requires both gross motor as well as fine motor movements to accomplish the task. They have to manipulate the peg and they have to move it in space. That gives us information about the shoulder and elbow motion as well as the digits, and we can track it in the computer."
"One of the realistic problems in the clinic is that we don't have time. We need outcomes that can be substantiated, that are valid and reliable for the people we're treating. This has the potential to be absolutely breakthrough with the cerebral palsy population whose coordinated motions are so difficult to quantify," she said.
Gogola perceives a future for the Rice invention beyond cerebral palsy therapy. "This device could be used in any situation where dexterity, or the fine motor movements of the hand, need to be tested," she said. "For example, it could be used to evaluate patients recovering from stroke, spinal cord injuries, trauma undefined any situation where the ability to use their hands is affected."
Senior engineering students at Rice University have invented a wireless device to help track the progress of cerebral palsy patients through therapy. Team members from rear left are Allison Garza, Andrew Schober, Vivaswath Kumar, Shaurya Agarwal and Sonia Garcia. Front, from left, are Dora Aticia Barrios, her son Brandon Sierra, a patient at Shriners Hospital for Children in Houston, and James Northcutt, an occupational therapist at Shriners. Photo by Jeff Fitlow
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NittanyNation: Week in review
April, 7, 2013
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NittanyNation takes a look at this week's Penn State football news and what you might have missed:
- When Nyeem Wartman is ready to flip the switch, everybody knows. His high school coach, longtime friends and teammates talk about the kind of player and person the linebacker is.
- Linebacker/safety Mark Fossati might not be the biggest player in New Jersey, but he's one of the best athletes. Even ESPN Watch List CB Jabrill Peppers said he's the best linebacker he's ever faced. PSU wants the undersized Fossati at linebacker.
- ESPN's scouts released reports on all three of Penn State's commits . Troy Reeder was called a "program building player."
- Bill O'Brien said three-star LB signee Zayd Issah is off the team -- at least for now.
- Linebacker Brandon Bell discussed his expectations and improvement in a Q&A.
- We talked about Zayd Issah, football and recruiting in Friday's chat.
- CB Marcus Whitfield said his visit completely changed his outlook about PSU. DT Ryan Stout reflected on his college visits and said he especially liked PSU's campus.
- Safeties coach Anthony Midget addressed the media for the first time and said his transition to PSU has been relatively easy so far.
- Some Penn State players might have had a little too much fun on April Fools' Day.
- As part of an ongoing series, NittanyNation took a closer look at OT Jermaine Eluemunor and DT Thomas Holley .
- Run-on LB Brandon Smith talked about his increased role in the defense with PSU's limited depth in this week's edition of "5 Questions."
- 2015 DE Jashon Cornell received an offer from PSU and he said O'Brien left some nice compliments.
- Run-on QB Jack Seymour's coach talked about what makes the signal caller special and what fans can expect from him.
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Hotel Arkadenhof offers hotel accommodation in the Alsergrund area.
Your 4 star Alsergrund hotel in Vienna offers free Wi-Fi, dry cleaning/laundry and an elevator (lift). There is also a bar/lounge where guests can enjoy drinks after a long day.
Multilingual staff are available at the front desk 24 hours-a-day and can provide tour/ticket assistance. The hotel has a meeting room available for hire. In the lobby area you will find free newspapers so you can catch up on all the news and weather. Other amenities include a train station pick-up service.
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I stayed four nights at the Arkadenhof in May 2008. The hotel was OK. Everything was correct but nothing special. However there were many little things that made me think it doesn't really deserve one of its four stars. For instance, the bathroom was quite small, when you sat in the toilet, the toilet paper pushed in your shoulder, and the shower head felt more like a sprinkling irrigation device. I paid 90€/night, but 70€ would have been more adequate for what the hotel has to offer. And the regular price of 162€/night is way too much.
- March 2008
- Venere Guest
- Single traveller
- United Kingdom
Pleasant hotel that would struggle to justify its 4-star rating. Spacious room and good breakfast. Out of the centre of Vienna but good U-bahn link a short walk away.
- September 2007
- Venere Guest
- Hungary
I missed the sauna and/or fitness room. Otherwise I was pleased with the services. Food and room was all right. Parking - we had to do it in the neighboring hotel, but it was not so far so it was OK but a little bit uncomfortable.
- December 2006
- Venere Guest
- Couple
- Germany
Hotel mit der U6 bequem vom Westbahnhof zu erreichen. Der U-Bahnhof "Nussdorfer Straße" jedoch herunter gekommen. Bahnhof macht keinen gepflegten Eindruck, man fühlt sich dort nicht sicher, besonders wenn man als Frau nachts allein unterwegs ist. Unmittelbare Umgebung des Hotels weniger ansprechend. Hotel bietet kein Restaurant und hat auch keine sonstigen Wellness-Angebote. Zimmer, Zimmerservice und Frühstück jedoch in Ordnung und ihr Geld wert.
- October 2006
- Venere Guest
- Couple
- Italy
there is a good thing that is separation of room,s smoking no-smoking.hotel location is good.
- August 2006
- Venere Guest
- Family with older children
- Mexico
The hotel was very nice, the room spacious and clean, the only little problem was the location, becouse is a little far from downtown, but comunicated with a bus and a tramway (we had to take both of them).
- July 2014
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- Single traveller
- Kenya
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- January 2009
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- Italy
- July 2008
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- May 2008
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- Germany
- April 2008
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- Germany
- November 2004
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- Australia
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- Italy
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Room Details
Book your pet-friendly accommodation at Hotel Arkadenhof, offering 45 guest rooms with climate control. LCD televisions in each room offer entertainment at the end of a long day. Corporate travelers visiting the Alsergrund area will benefit from free wireless high-speed Internet access as well as desks.
Private bathrooms are outfitted with hair dryers and complimentary toiletries. Minibars and coffee/tea makers are supplied in each room to facilitate basic travel needs.
Irons/ironing boards can be provided on request.
Accommodation Services
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- Ironing facilities on request
- Hairdryer in each room
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How to reach Hotel ArkadenhofBy car
From Westautobahn A1, take exit Gürtel-West and proceed until Felberstraße. Take the second crossroad on the right hand side. The hotel is located a few metres ahead on the left.
From Südautobahn A2, follow the above-mentioned indications.
By train
From any railway station, take underground line U4 or U6 until the Spittelau stop, which is a 5-minute walk from the hotel.
By airplane
Vienna airport is 20 km from the hotel. Take the airport shuttle bus to Westbahnhof railway station and coninue by underground.
Distances from Hotel ArkadenhofVolksoper Vienna - 0.8 km / 0.5 mi
Liechtenstein Museum - 1 km / 0.6 mi
Augarten - 1.2 km / 0.8 mi
Vienna General Hospital - 1.4 km / 0.8 mi
Sigmund Freud Museum - 1.5 km / 0.9 mi
Votive Church - 1.7 km / 1.1 mi
St. Anna Children's Hospital - 1.8 km / 1.1 mi
University of Vienna - 2 km / 1.2 mi
Karl Marx Hof - 2.2 km / 1.4 mi
Schottenkirche - 2.2 km / 1.4 mi
Karmeliter Market - 2.2 km / 1.4 mi
Vienna City Hall - 2.2 km / 1.4 mi
St. Mary on the Strand - 2.3 km / 1.4 mi
Burgtheater - 2.3 km / 1.4 mi
Holocaust Memorial - 2.4 km / 1.5 mi
The preferred airport for Hotel Arkadenhof is Vienna (VIE-Vienna Intl.) - 18.4 km / 11.4 mi.
Distances are calculated in a straight line from the property's location to the point of interest or airport and may not reflect actual travel distance.
Distances are displayed to the nearest 0.1 mile and kilometer.
Transportation services Hotel Arkadenhof
- Shuttle service from and/or to the railway station
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Tarte Tatin Aux Bananapple
Fruit tarts and pies tend to be too watery for me. I don�t prefer starch added recipes. Looking at many pictures, the dough or puff pastry under the fruit tends to be soggy or uncooked.
I am sure there are recipes which are much better, but I am just too lazy to look them up. I just make things up as I go.
Apples are expensive this year because of bad weather but the markets always have bruised ones at a great discount, $0.20 a lb.
I decided to make an apple "something".
After I peeled and sliced the apples, I arranged them on a non-stick 10" frying pan. Added a little cinnamon, nothing else. I removed the pan's handle and put the pan in the convection toaster at 350F.
After a while, the apple slices were cooked. They were soft and nice, and not too wet from the convection, but the top was too dry.
I also had bought a few lbs of discount bananas (Shoprite $0.29 a lb because the skin had spots). I took two bananas and about 1/2 cup of leftover vanilla yogurt and blended them into a cream.
I poured the cream on top and baked again.
After the cream was half dried out in the toaster, I layered crescent dough (from a tube) on top and baked again at 350F. I like crescent dough better than pie dough or puff pastry for this kind of baking.
After the crescent dough was done, I just turned the whole thing over and sprinkled powdered coconut on top. As you can see, the dough was baked perfectly, not soggy at all.
I made another one because the first one was gone immediately.
Well, dcarch, normally I enjoy your presentations even if they don't look like WFD, to me. But this time, I dunno know - this one isn't your best, IMO.
It looks dry like the Sahara. I read that you don't enjoy "watery" pies and/or tarts but it's that lusciousness part that I really like. Could be 'cause I've got Sjogren's but gosh that crust looks more like a doggie biscuit. I'd rather have had the apple as a snack, turned the over ripe banana into 'nana bread, and let you keep the canned crescent rolls and dry coconut. The cream and yogurt I'd have used in a batch of muffins, maybe apple muffins for my snack? :)
Sorry to give such negative feedback. Guess I just prefer moist eats rather than the drier crunchy stuff.
Two thoughts I have about your comment. Tricia:
1. You have demonstrated that it is possible to give negative opinions without being nasty. For some, that is a new concept.
2. You have paid me the highest form of compliment: you assumed that I can accept negative comments without getting all worked up. I appreciated that very much.
I have said it before, no matter how good you are, there are no ideas which will be pleasing to all. I am not here for the praises, although I do enjoy them, I post on other forums where I get enough of them. Learning and sharing is very important to me. I have learned a lot from negative comments.
Most of the time when I make something, I have the bad habit of experimenting with an idea/ideas/new ingredient/strange food.
Regarding this particular creation, as I said, it is to play with ideas to minimize tart's/pie's watery filling and uncooked dough problems.
The other idea is to see what if I don't use sugar and butter for the apple filling, and no powdered sugar for the topping, will it taste bad?
The use of crescent pastry is also because crescent dough has significantly less Fat/lard.
IMHO, the tart tasted very good. Will I make it for guests? No. I will add one cups of butter and one cup of sugar. That's what people expect.
Thank you Tricia.
Yes, dcarch, that's what I'd expect (and probably enjoy too!). I don't really care for the canned crescent roll dough, although my girls love it when I use it for veggie pizza, and it seems rather "substantial" for a crust.
That's not where you lost me, though. It was the bananas. I HATE bananas, and I'd never think of putting them with apples.


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