Mayo Clinic Wants Volunteers To Live The Lab Rat Life

The Mayo Clinic is setting up a floor in its in-house incubator that takes examining volunteers in clinical studies to a new level. Subjects will be tracked by pressure-sensing carpets, smart fridges, air quality sensors, and multiple cameras. This rich data will provide information about how people work or live, and how small changes to the environment could have big effects.

The 7,500 square-foot Well Living Lab, created in partnership with Delos, a company that wants to create buildings that make people healthier, aims to solve the problem of control posed by research on people’s day-to-day lives. Says Rich Macary, president of Delos Ventures: “We could create this dynamic environment where we could monitor everything.”

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