Quote of the week: “The Lamborghini for the body” – Dr Rudolf
The week began with a surprise. Christine made a little stopover at inno.space and we were all very happy to see her again. Of course, we used the time for a quick photo. 🙂 (What else would you expect from us).
On the same day, we also had our first expert interview with Dr Rudolf. We talked about ways to detect antibodies and pathogens and also about the possibility of a body’s own vaccinations. All in all, he thinks that ComImmunity is “the future”, but processes that are still done in the laboratory today have to be shrunk to be part of an implant. Additionally, we would probably need nanobots (or other solutions) to provide cells from the body to the implant to monitor the body properly and find out where the source of the disease is. We would like to take this opportunity to thank Dr Rudolf for the interview. We have learned a tremendous amount and are convinced that his expertise will help us to progress in our project. Our next steps include additional expert interviews with data protection experts, immunologists and representatives of health insurance companies.
The situation of the COVID-19 pandemic then hit us in the middle of the week. The government banned attendance at universities and schools at least until April 20. However, the project will continue remotely. We will not pause and use this time for further development and more intensive research on open topics. Although it is quite difficult to manage everything remotely we expect magnificent results. For protection and containment of the virus, voluntary house quarantine is now recommended. Our workflow and joint coffee parties will now take place via Skype instead of at inno.space. Otherwise, nothing else will change and we will continue at full speed as before.
In this spirit: stay safe, stay healthy and #StayTheFHome
Hi Team Clash! I hope you are all doing ok and managing to find some routine whilst working remotely. In Australia, we too have moved off campus this week, and will continue online classes next week. I have complete faith that your team will still deliver a kick-arse outcome that you will all be proud of!
Great to see you are making good progress on further developing your ideas with the input from experts. Nanobots sound super interesting! I would be interested to hear more about these.
Have you done any interviews of user research about how the general public feel about this sort of health intervention?
Hey Aaron,
thank you for the comment!
We are Zooming with one or the other team member every free minute 😉 The DF-Spirit is still alive!
We did some user research in week 16 to find out how the people react to our basic idea of a shared immune system. Some of the respondents came up with ideas like nanobots and implants. All in all the main concern they considered was data security. It turns out that besides critics of future medicine there are also many enthusiasts of modern technologies.
Now we have to search for an expert for nanobots…..