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Title | ||
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Creation of an Wearable Startup: From a Laboratory Incubator to a Revenue Generating Business |
Abstract | ||
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ABSTRACTThe need to understand signals given by our own body is of great interest to most human beings. This quest for self-knowledge is both shared by academic researchers and businesses who want to bring value to consumers in the society. This paper presents a story of how a software engineering researcher who collaborated with hardware engineers and entrepreneurs in an incubator, Simula Garage, hosted by Simula Research Laboratory to create a wearable startup called Sweetzpot. Sweetzpot developed a respiratory inductance plethysomography sensor called Flow to measure breathing signals from ribcage and/or abdominal movements. The team grew to consist of software engineers, students of machine learning and physics, an industrial/interaction designer, a hardware engineer, a lawyer, and an accountant in addition to external collaborators. We present the sequence of events that led to creation and sustainability of the startup and summarize the lessons learnt from it. |
Year | DOI | Venue |
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2020 | 10.1145/3387940.3392226 | International Conference on Software Engineering |
DocType | Citations | PageRank |
Conference | 0 | 0.34 |
References | Authors | |
0 | 1 | |