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Quantified Self: How I Finally Made Fitness Wo...

6-January-2020 By Jeffrey Cooper

For most of my life Fitness has evaded me. I was skinny in high school and even on Swim Team for a year, but I was not athletic. I didn’t like Phys Ed, it was not engaging for me. After College, slowly the weight came on. I made efforts off and on to control it,

The Connected Gym: Tier 1- Automated Check-in ...

2-January-2020 By Jeffrey Cooper

Advanced Technology in your Fitness Club. How to implement a Digital Doorway to your gym's Immersive Fitness space.

The Connected Gym: Tier 1- Automated Check-in & Check-out

Photography

27-December-2019 By Jeffrey Cooper

I started a photo blog about 10 years ago called SirSnapALot. It was a tongue in cheek approach to giving photo advice, as I’ve been an avid photographer most of my life. During that time period, I was particularly active with a DLSR and then the early days of cell phone cameras. Looking back at

Digital Distractions

21-December-2019 By Jeffrey Cooper

You will see a common theme in my writing about technology, and that is an emphasis on simplicity. The system you are deploying should be as simple as possible for the end user to use. Ideally, the user has little or nothing to do at all to use the system. In an Immersive Space, it’s

Intro to Running

14-December-2019 By Jeffrey Cooper

There are a few things in life that I love. I love pushing the boundaries of technology (the first section of this blog) and I love, love love Running. I am not a particularly fast runner, nor do I try to be. I run for a combination of the fitness it gives me as well

Immersive Spaces: UX In The Real World (Part 2)

14-December-2019 By Jeffrey Cooper

In the previous article, I laid out my thinking process towards approaching most problems and concepts. In this second foundation article, we’ll dive one level deeper. For immersive solutions that involve the interaction of components, I follow an approach such that the usage of the system is as evident as possible and uncomplicated. These systems can

Immersive Spaces: UX In The Real World (Part 2)

Ways of Thinking- An Introduction (Part 1)

14-December-2019 By Jeffrey Cooper

I’ve been considering for some time a series of articles that follow my passion for innovation and new ideas, particularly around (but not limited to) the area of IoT. Before I publish those articles, I felt that an introduction and a framework for those ideas was needed, to put in context the thought process that went