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Bay student invents new app
A ROBIN Hood's Bay student will be graduating with more than just a degree under his belt - he has become an inventor.
For electronics student Luke Scott Berry, under the supervision of Dr Adar Pelah, has developed an innovative mobile phone application, aimed at office workers, which measures activity during the working day and intelligently schedules break reminders.
The app, which is likely to be called OfficeSlim, schedules breaks intelligently around a person's natural and spontaneous activity.
The clever app also tracks a person's activity through a built in pedometer and it increases activity through a pace feedback mechanism designed to increase a user's walking pace.
It can also time breaks and maintain a personal log of the user's activity levels, calorie expenditures and goals achieved over time.
The work was guided by medical research on obesity and on the benefits of what is called NEAT (Non-Exercise Activity Thermogenesis), which has shown that even modest movements can together make a big difference to health, fitness and lifespan.
Luke, who is graduating with an MEng in Electronic Engineering, received a 'starred' First on his project, and a cash award for the Best Project in Electronics Research and Enterprise.
With advice from the university's Research and Enterprise Office, Luke and Dr Pelah plan to launch the application commercially.
They are also seeking endorsement from organisations such as the British Heart Foundation and the National Obesity Forum.
He said: "In about a month's time I will be moving to London to start work with Deloitte as a technology analyst.
"I will undergo a 21-month training programme before becoming a technology consultant with the firm. Before then I plan on polishing and branding the application before publishing it. I have also started creating another mobile application that I hope to release in the near future."
OfficeSlim will be available to download from https://store.ovi.com/. If you are an office worker and would like to participate in early user tests of the benefits of using the app contact Dr Pelah on ap23@york.ac.uk.
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